So I've been using my new blaze king sirroco 30.1 for a few weeks now and love it but I have lots of questions still. I have read thread after thread about it but it's still nice to get first hand info.
First off I have been reloading it mostly onto beds of really hot coals with the meter still around 11 or 12 o'clock as it seems that once it drops below this there is very little coals left in the stove. Let it catch for a minute with door open close it and close bypass within a minute Cat is usually glowing like it's about to melt into lava. Is loading the stove with the cat that high on meter going to damage cat by opening door and allowing cool air in or is it cooled enough by this point?
Also I'm usually running the stove on high - just above medium when I reload the stove the chimney smokes like hell the whole time and sometimes the smoke comes down to ground level until I turn it down and than still there's still exaust for a few hours assuming it's water vapor or something. Don't have neighbour's so it's not a big deal but never had this happen with old stove. Wood is below 20%
Many more questions but I'll leave it at that for now.. thanks
First off I have been reloading it mostly onto beds of really hot coals with the meter still around 11 or 12 o'clock as it seems that once it drops below this there is very little coals left in the stove. Let it catch for a minute with door open close it and close bypass within a minute Cat is usually glowing like it's about to melt into lava. Is loading the stove with the cat that high on meter going to damage cat by opening door and allowing cool air in or is it cooled enough by this point?
Also I'm usually running the stove on high - just above medium when I reload the stove the chimney smokes like hell the whole time and sometimes the smoke comes down to ground level until I turn it down and than still there's still exaust for a few hours assuming it's water vapor or something. Don't have neighbour's so it's not a big deal but never had this happen with old stove. Wood is below 20%
Many more questions but I'll leave it at that for now.. thanks