SolarAndWood said:
I wonder if you and Beetle Kill are experiencing slow t-stats? Does it take as long to increase temperature as decrease? For example, if you are running at steady state with the blowers off and then turn them on, does the stove cool off or does it maintain temperature?
I didn’t mean to highjack B-K’s thread, but I didn’t realize this was a problem until he started this thread…I thought this was just the nature of the beast…hopefully this is helping him too. Anyway, here are details of the latest reload, with an attempt to minimize the running of the fans.
7:00 pm I opened the bypass and set t’stat to 3.5…fully loaded the stove…cat temp was at 300
7:15 the flames were fairly prominent, so I reduce the t’stat setting to 2.5
7:25 the cat temp reached 550, so I closed the bypass and reduced the t’stat to a setting between 2.0 and 2.25
7:40 the cat temp reached 1500
8:45 the cat temp reached 1900
9:30 the cat temp was 1800, and I turned the fans on low in an attempt to answer SolarAndWoods question
10:00 the cat temp dropped to 1500, so I turned the fans off
10:05 the cat temp increased to 1900
10:30 the cat temp is well over 2000, so I turned the fans in high
10:45 the cat temp dropped to 1200, so I turned the fans off
10:50 the cat temp increased to 1700
11:00 the cat temp was at 1500 and slowly dropping
I went to bed and left the fans off
5:00 am…cat temp was 1500…the cat temp spiked up to 1900 sometime during the night (I had a piece of aluminum foil on the thermometer so it would show how high it went over night)…the house temp dropped from 71, at 11:00 last night, to 67, at 5:00 this morning…so I turned the fans on low to warm up the house a little, but also to answer SolarAndWoods question once again
5:10 the cat temp dropped to 1000, so I turned the fans off
5:30 the cat temp increased to 1200
So, is this normal, abnormal, nothing to worry about…
Now, I need to go to work
north of 60 said:
I think that if temps where so important that #s would have been put on them with LIMIT indicator's to protect their product. If your needle stays within the scale. Run the stove. There is 20 yr CAT stoves out there being run by people that dont have a clue what is supposed to happen. The stoves survive. As far as the fan goes... Many purchase the stoves and run without them. IT IS AN OPTION. One thing for sure is that your flue gases should be lower than your stove top temp. KEEP IT SIMPLE.
Relax you guys.
Probably, very good advice