Credit to Pagey I believe: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b4No-WL1Wmk&feature=fvst
I have the same firebox. I've gotten it up to 725 degrees with a serious coal bed and good fuel in there.
My secondaries don't air-wash the glass, they don't roar, they kinda just mull around near the holes....sometimes the air lights up a few inches below the holes and curls around very nice like.
But no matter how hot I'm burning, my glass is staying hazed/blackened (yes, I have a good amount of not seasoned stuff...nature of my first year).
I realize I don't have fully dry wood, but I thought that with the temperature above 600, I'd be able to get serious air-wash and secondaries firing out like the youtube vid. I'm not able to achieve it.
This is with my damper bypass closed and air control (bottom pull) in ANY position - fully open, half shut, fully shut, and all the variations between. I simply get some low rolling secondaries for maybe 10-30 minutes and then those start to die out.
Joe
I have the same firebox. I've gotten it up to 725 degrees with a serious coal bed and good fuel in there.
My secondaries don't air-wash the glass, they don't roar, they kinda just mull around near the holes....sometimes the air lights up a few inches below the holes and curls around very nice like.
But no matter how hot I'm burning, my glass is staying hazed/blackened (yes, I have a good amount of not seasoned stuff...nature of my first year).
I realize I don't have fully dry wood, but I thought that with the temperature above 600, I'd be able to get serious air-wash and secondaries firing out like the youtube vid. I'm not able to achieve it.
This is with my damper bypass closed and air control (bottom pull) in ANY position - fully open, half shut, fully shut, and all the variations between. I simply get some low rolling secondaries for maybe 10-30 minutes and then those start to die out.
Joe