My only complaint about my new Fireview last year was that I had to "babysit" the stove for the first twenty minutes until it got hot enough to engage the combustor.
First I had to wait ten minutes or so until the flue got up to 375 - 400 F (I measure it with an IR gun 18" above the stove), then I had to adjust the damper to keep in that range for another ten minutes until the combustor probe hit 675 - 700 F, at which point I could engage the combustor and adjust the damper for the proper low burn flame. After that, I could pretty much leave the stove untended until it burned down to nothing or I added more wood.
I was always afraid to walk away from the stove to get the paper or make coffee for fear I might forget about the stove and let it overheat after the first ten minutes, or forget to engage the combustor and turn down the damper after the second ten minutes.
At some point this fall I realized I could use the nifty ThermoWorks timer I use with my excercise machine to time the two ten minute intervals when I start up my Fireview. Now I just set the timer for ten minutes and the go off to get the paper, make coffee, and check the bird feeders until the timer goes off. Then I can start eating breakfast and reading the paper until the timer goes off again.
Now that I'm using the timer I really have no other complaints about my Fireview - except of course that I constantly obsess about whether my steel cat is working properly!
First I had to wait ten minutes or so until the flue got up to 375 - 400 F (I measure it with an IR gun 18" above the stove), then I had to adjust the damper to keep in that range for another ten minutes until the combustor probe hit 675 - 700 F, at which point I could engage the combustor and adjust the damper for the proper low burn flame. After that, I could pretty much leave the stove untended until it burned down to nothing or I added more wood.
I was always afraid to walk away from the stove to get the paper or make coffee for fear I might forget about the stove and let it overheat after the first ten minutes, or forget to engage the combustor and turn down the damper after the second ten minutes.
At some point this fall I realized I could use the nifty ThermoWorks timer I use with my excercise machine to time the two ten minute intervals when I start up my Fireview. Now I just set the timer for ten minutes and the go off to get the paper, make coffee, and check the bird feeders until the timer goes off. Then I can start eating breakfast and reading the paper until the timer goes off again.
Now that I'm using the timer I really have no other complaints about my Fireview - except of course that I constantly obsess about whether my steel cat is working properly!