Which woodstoves have an automatic thermostatic air control??

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Wyld Bill

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Feb 5, 2011
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I was disapointed to find that the VC Defiant I just bought is NOT a thermostatic control but just a manual air shutter adjustment. My old 80's Encore is supposed to be a automatic t-stat control I believe & seems like I remeber the old Defiants or Vigilants having an automatic t-stat control on the air. Any other stoves out there with this feature? Is it to prone to problems?
 
There was a thread on this a few months back, the Blaze Kings do but I think there was another stove that had one also. There a pretty simple device so they work pretty good. Did you type thermostat into the search bar?
 
Our Encore cat 2550 stove has a bimetal coil on the primary air control lever that's supposed to adjust the intake air shutter via
a cable. It's not very effective because the coil is thermally isolated from the firebox temps by a massive cast iron air
plate and the primary room air flows over the coil, negating its usefullness.
 
Wyld Bill said:
I was disapointed to find that the VC Defiant I just bought is NOT a thermostatic control but just a manual air shutter adjustment. My old 80's Encore is supposed to be a automatic t-stat control I believe & seems like I remeber the old Defiants or Vigilants having an automatic t-stat control on the air. Any other stoves out there with this feature? Is it to prone to problems?
Are you asking if they have a thermostatically controlled blower or air intake?
 
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