That's probably how I'll set it. I suppose I could have taken it down a smidge more as it was pretty well keeping 6 on the Dwyer. It did seem like I was getting a little more heat at the registers when the draft was closer to .4 on the Dwyer. Would that possibly be because I wasn't sending so much heat towards the chimney and retaining it more in the furnace?
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brenndatomu
Minister of Fire
Yes.
More residence time of the exhaust gases in the furnace HX means less heat up the chimney...or, better efficiency.
Definitely it has been a major improvement I have kept the weight on a lower setting ever since I installed it and it still favors high.
I'm actually a little surprised my chimney is only 18ft. But I guess insulated and middle of house and also inside a larger brick and block structure makes a difference. My stove pipe surface temps are slightly lower it seems like especially right after the BD. Closer to stove ranges from 150-210 but hits 240-250 when starting a fire or after a reload. After the BD on the 45 going to thimble it has been as low as 130 when fire is slowing down and as high as 200 at its peak. It mostly stays 140-180 when running. That's just checking with a laser dot thermometer, I am wanting to upgrade to some type of probe type to get a better idea of how I'm doing, what few times I've looked in the chimney liner itself is pretty clean even up at the top. Just peeking in the BD hole it looks smooth on top and kind of the texture of sandpaper on the bottom of stove pipe.
brenndatomu
Minister of Fire
Its January now, how many times would you have had to clean the stovepipe/chimney with your old furnace at this point in the season?
Definitely once a month or so and it was usually bad in the pipe, furnace baffles and thimble, real puffy/spongey stuff, how we didn't have a chimney fire is beyond me. It was also hard to keep a fire I had to have a family member stop by mid day to put some wood in to hold till I would get home from work. Not so with the kuuma, the only time I have needed to relight is when I intentionally let it go out. It holds so much longer.
The kuuma is much cleaner I guess I am just trying to get mine dialed in as clean and efficient as possible.
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