Any thoughts?
I posted before asking if I needed a damper, but I am looking for additional advice.
Mansfield, average wood, 4' DVL pipe with probe thermometer 18" up to 90' wall thimble, outside and up 18' of class A chimney.
At 500 stove top temp, my stack temp seems out of control. If I shut it down completly, the stack can be anywhere between 700-1000. And it runs there until my stove top temps start to drop. That can't be right.... I don't think I have a draft problem because I can load at 10pm and still have a bunch of hot coals 10am the next day that light things right back up. I thought the thermometer might be bad, but I can smell the pipe cooking sometimes when it hits 1000. When I shut it down the all the way, my wood glows red and I have nothing but secondarys running at the top of the stove and dancing on the glass, but all of the tubes are producing. I am new to this stove, and VERY happy with it but it seems like I am losing a lot of heat up the chimney.
Thanks - Chris
I posted before asking if I needed a damper, but I am looking for additional advice.
Mansfield, average wood, 4' DVL pipe with probe thermometer 18" up to 90' wall thimble, outside and up 18' of class A chimney.
At 500 stove top temp, my stack temp seems out of control. If I shut it down completly, the stack can be anywhere between 700-1000. And it runs there until my stove top temps start to drop. That can't be right.... I don't think I have a draft problem because I can load at 10pm and still have a bunch of hot coals 10am the next day that light things right back up. I thought the thermometer might be bad, but I can smell the pipe cooking sometimes when it hits 1000. When I shut it down the all the way, my wood glows red and I have nothing but secondarys running at the top of the stove and dancing on the glass, but all of the tubes are producing. I am new to this stove, and VERY happy with it but it seems like I am losing a lot of heat up the chimney.
Thanks - Chris