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oldspark
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First of all I am not asking for help as we know where that gets us, riding a dead horse.
My Summit does not work the same as many report here, no danger of overfireing ever and I can idle the fire down in a hurry with the damper and primary air.
Flue temps seem to run higher than most but less than the old chimney.
Lincoln log style fires work best for quick heat.
When I get the stove top to 700 or beyond I have to let it go longer that I normally do, it never gets there if I run the stove as usual, the stove top temp doens't take off with the secondaries firing, just a slow upword trend.
The damper IMHO has helped a lot with higher stove top temps and longer burns.
The new thing is the stove has had some of the best burns on large splits of Green Ash, as most of us know Green Ash is a MOR wood so I dont get it, had about a 9.5 hour burn the other night and stove top was 400 in the morning. If fact it seems to like Green Ash for everthing, maybe there is a clue there and I need more chimney but at 21 feet total straight up I dont think so.
All my wood is below 20 % and starts good burns well but the stove likes less dense wood.
It is what it is and I will continue to tighten up the house and still thinking about the extra pipe, maybe I just need to rule that out.
It is heating the house but after reading this forum I think it is not up to par with many of you PE owners.
My Summit does not work the same as many report here, no danger of overfireing ever and I can idle the fire down in a hurry with the damper and primary air.
Flue temps seem to run higher than most but less than the old chimney.
Lincoln log style fires work best for quick heat.
When I get the stove top to 700 or beyond I have to let it go longer that I normally do, it never gets there if I run the stove as usual, the stove top temp doens't take off with the secondaries firing, just a slow upword trend.
The damper IMHO has helped a lot with higher stove top temps and longer burns.
The new thing is the stove has had some of the best burns on large splits of Green Ash, as most of us know Green Ash is a MOR wood so I dont get it, had about a 9.5 hour burn the other night and stove top was 400 in the morning. If fact it seems to like Green Ash for everthing, maybe there is a clue there and I need more chimney but at 21 feet total straight up I dont think so.
All my wood is below 20 % and starts good burns well but the stove likes less dense wood.
It is what it is and I will continue to tighten up the house and still thinking about the extra pipe, maybe I just need to rule that out.
It is heating the house but after reading this forum I think it is not up to par with many of you PE owners.