what to use for testing stove temps????

[abby4000]

Hello All

What are you all using for stove temp reading. I have a cast iron insert so a magnetic thermometer is not going to work. Any ideas?????

 

[LLigetfa]

I hold my hand close to the stove to feel how much heat is coming off of it. There really is no place to put a thermometer on my fireplace.

 

[WES999]

Here is what I use, both of my stoves have 2 temperature monitor /alarms, one for flue temp and one for stove top temp. I find them very useful, I think it is important to know the temperature your stove is operating at. There is nothing really commercially available for a stove temp/alarm, so I built my own.

I don't have an insert but I expect this would work fine for one.
PM me if you want more info.

 

[LLigetfa]

I think it is important to know the temperature your stove is operating at.

Not sure why it is important as long as you're confident you have complete combustion. I have an ICC chimney built to better specs than American UL requires so I'm not worried about overheating the flue. I would however be curious to know what the temperature is at the top of my flue just to know how much I'm contributing to global warming or to condensate. :roll:

At work we have a Predictive Emissions Monitor that tracks several metrics on our recovery boiler to extrapolate what the emissions would be since actual emissions testing is expensive to install, maintain, and calibrate. Maybe you could capture a few more metrics and write such a program.

 

[begreen]

Abbey, is this on an HI300? About the only choice it to put a thermometer on the shelf above the door and roughly double the temps read. Or you could pick up an infrared thermometer which will read surface temps where it is pointed at.

 

[abby4000]

Thanks for the replys everyone.

Wow quite a system WES99!!

BeGreen yes it is on a HI300. And you are right the only place would be the top of the door.

Thanks again