- Mar 6, 2013
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Hello. I have an energy king 480ek and am curious as to what a good burn temp is? Do you measure the temp on the door, directly above it, or above the sliding baffle handle? Thanks.
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Magnetic. I`ll look into another method and compare. Thanks for the heads upBut how are you measuring your temps? Magnetic guages are very inaccurate IMO and should not be relied on to determine how you fire.
WOW!! That is detailed. I`ll see what I can do over the next week and get a new probe and report backI use a probe (BBQ Thermometer) about 15" or so from collar.
The highest temps I have seen is when it was very cold out and was loading on hot coals with the computer set to absolute max burn and they reached 466° before the computer went to pilot mode. This was a temporary (maybe 5 minutes) max though and as soon as the computer went to pilot they started to fall and sat around the 400° area. Again, this is with the furnace running balls out.
Under normal heating conditions, which it spends 90% of the time at, my flue temps range from 270° to low 300's. When on pilot they will sit at high 200's or so. When changing from pilot to opening the damper to maintain the computer temp setpoint (happens early in the burn when starting a fire or later in the burn), they will range from the 270 - low 300's. During this scenario when the computer opens the damper they will trend up to low 300's until the computer goes back to pilot then they will fall to the higher 200's. Rinse and repeat until things settle in and then the damper will remain closed and flue temps will too.
I use a probe (BBQ Thermometer) about 15" or so from collar.
My probe thermometer is just stuck in through a tight fitting hole in the pipe.
Depends what burner you have...most don't run hot enough to damage anything normally...IIRC, my Maverick ET732 BBQ thermometer reads some random number (max) like JR said, 574 maybe...but they say the probe itself can withstand 700 and some degrees...My impression was that internal flue temperatures would be too high for these probes and that they would only be suitable for surface mounting?