You don't have to "fiddle" with anything because you have so much heat loss in your house. Part of owning a wood stove is setting the output based on the burn stage of your wood.
You don't have a clue at all... do you??
THERE AIN'T ANYTHING TO ADJUST ON MY SMOKE DRAGON‼ ZILCH‼ ZIP‼ NOTHING‼ NADA‼
You regulate the standby heat output by the quantity and quality of fuel you load it with. On a warm(ish) day ya' just toss in a couple or three splits of elm or ash, on a cold-azz night ya' toss in more, on a really nasty-azz windy night ya' load some oak in there with it.
The idea is to load it just a tad light, so it slowly loses ground in standby as the circulation blower cycles on and off from air-jacket temperature. When the temp in the house drops ½° below set point (digital t-stat), the draft blower kicks in and brings the fire roaring to life until the house temperature raises to ½° above set point (10 or 15 minutes depending on the fuel load). At that point the draft blower stops, the fire goes back into standby mode with just enough heat to cycle the circulation blower on for a couple minutes, every 15-20 minutes or so. That circulation keeps the house at a steady even temperature... plus it pulls the return air through a furnace filter to keep everything clean and dust free. It may be hours before the draft blower kicks on again, or even a full day... often the only time it runs is for a short time at 5:30 AM when set point automatically goes from 66° to 70°.
I'll say it again...
the idea is to load it just a tad light, so it slowly loses ground in standby, and let the draft blower catch the furnace up with demand (if needed). If I loaded that thing to the gills during the day, even a -10° day... it would turn our house into a sauna just idling in standby mode. Most days I load the thing in the morning when I roll out at 5:00 Am, the draft blower starts up 5:30 to raise the temp from 66° to 70°... and it don't get loaded again until after dark that night (if temps are in single digits or lower the wife might toss in 3 or 4 splits mid-afternoon).
70° all day long (66° at night), in every room, every day, no matter what the weather... I don't adjust crap, 'cause there ain't crap to adjust.
Part of owning a wood stove is setting the output based on the burn stage of your wood... my azz‼
Part of owning an
elitist stove is fiddling with the damn thing... I want no part of it. I don't even haf'ta "clean" the ashes out'a mine, I just pull the drawer out, dump, and slide the drawer back in... and I can do that no matter what stage the fire is in.
Makin' firewood should be the hard part... burnin' it should be the easy part... if makin' the burnin' part the easy part also means burnin a little more wood, so-be-it, it's worth every friggin' stick‼
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