Enjoying the comfort

As mentioned a week ago I recently got the itch to purse an additional heat source and I must say I am falling in love with coal. I love the house being a comfy 77 degrees (well to hot for me, but the wife is happy). So here is my question: What is a good consistant heat that my stove should be running at? I noticed I can adjust it to run any where between 250 - 350 for any period of time. So what is a good temp?

what ever you need to be comfortable, They will handle 600* constant on the top measuered behind the hopper.


You got a way to go yet


Eric


On a side note I did ask what is to hot, and DS said if it is glowing red you should back it off a little, I think they were juat having fun

the best temp is the one that keeps the wife happy but also I found that with a thermometer on the stove top and one on the stove pipe before the baro, I can see what is more efficient for me.

if my stove top is 400 and the flue pipe is 175 or if stove top is 300 and flue pipe is 85 then the 300 is more efficient

I have a furnace type hand fed. While we have mild temperatures outside, I have 200 degrees over the load door and about 130 on the flue pipe (about 16 inches from the outlet). Later this season when we get into the real cold, I'll run about 300 degrees over the load door and about 160 on the flue pipe. Everybody's temps will be different simply because every set up has so many variables