My Glenwood Base Heater Vs Alaska Channing 3 Stoker

 
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Post by joeq » Tue. Dec. 08, 2015 4:54 pm

Well CC, I know we haven't had much of a winter so far, but what do you think comparing the 2 stoves? Can you put the 6 down as low as the Alaska? Even tho you are down low, is it baking you out on these 45-50* days?


 
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Post by Canaan coal man » Tue. Dec. 08, 2015 8:54 pm

I'd say right now with my experience with the stove I can't run it as cool as the Channing. When I run the g6 low as I dare it's around 250-275. With the stove running at those temps the day time the house will jump into the mid to upper 70s not to over bearing.

 
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Post by Canaan coal man » Fri. Dec. 11, 2015 12:37 pm

I WANT COLD WEATHER....... The ducks and geese arnt migrating to hunt and the G6 is just idling along......how boring.

I posted a few pages ago how draft will affect the temp the stove will run, yet I haven't learned from my observations :oops: .

lets take yesterday as an example I ran all night (wens night) in bb mode mpd closed draft at .02.
stove was at 300* house was 75* oat 42* when I woke. No prob so I put about 10-12 lbs of stove coal on the fire after a 12 hr burn, And left the stove in dd and the mpd wide open after I saw the weather report saying high was 55 for the day. I had one draft reversal on a warm day in the middle of November so Im not afraid to run the stove in dd on days with a high of 50 or grater so that things flow the way they should....... I didn't touch the primaries thinking the stove would stay running around 300* just with a higher stack temp. WRONG I came home and the house was 87* stove was at 400* Draft was .07. Wow it still boggles my mind how sensitive to draft these hand feds are. If it was the weekend Id be around to keep an eye on it, for low draft if I was to stay in bb mode. More mental notes I guess. :D

 
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Post by Lightning » Fri. Dec. 11, 2015 1:17 pm

Canaan coal man wrote:I didn't touch the primaries thinking the stove would stay running around 300* just with a higher stack temp. WRONG I came home and the house was 87* stove was at 400* Draft was .07. Wow it still boggles my mind how sensitive to draft these hand feds are.
I'm sure I'll get tomatoes thrown at me for this :lol: but, a baro would take of that for ya.. ;)

 
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Post by scalabro » Fri. Dec. 11, 2015 1:26 pm

Lightning wrote:
Canaan coal man wrote:I didn't touch the primaries thinking the stove would stay running around 300* just with a higher stack temp. WRONG I came home and the house was 87* stove was at 400* Draft was .07. Wow it still boggles my mind how sensitive to draft these hand feds are.
I'm sure I'll get tomatoes thrown at me for this :lol: but, a baro would take of that for ya.. ;)
Too funny Lee!

You need to come over to the dark side anyway :lol:

 
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Post by Photog200 » Fri. Dec. 11, 2015 3:38 pm

Lightning wrote:
Canaan coal man wrote:I didn't touch the primaries thinking the stove would stay running around 300* just with a higher stack temp. WRONG I came home and the house was 87* stove was at 400* Draft was .07. Wow it still boggles my mind how sensitive to draft these hand feds are.
I'm sure I'll get tomatoes thrown at me for this :lol: but, a baro would take of that for ya.. ;)
Rotten tomatoes with blight all over them. :rofl:

To stay on topic, when I was burning my Kineo BB, I was able to get the stove to idle down to about 150℉ on the barrel. I won't be surprised if you can idle it down more once you get use to the stove. Do you have a check damper on the stove? I have one on the Kineo and would use that some and would help to keep the draft going. I never lost draft when using that method. Others use more secondary air to help control the temps and that will also help to keep the draft going better...more heat goes up the chimney that way.

Randy

Edit: If you do use the check damper method, use caution and watch for draft reversal, especially if the check damper is on an elbow. I never go to bed with the check damper open.

 
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Post by joeq » Fri. Dec. 11, 2015 6:40 pm

After the 65* OATs we're to expect this weekend, CC, you'll be letting her take a nap for a while, until winter hits. Save the coal, for when you'll actually need it.


 
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Post by joeq » Sat. Dec. 19, 2015 12:27 am

Photog200 wrote:Since this thread is going to be showing a lot of degrees of temperatures, I would like to show you how to actually make a degree symbol. If you are on a Windows computer and if you are using the font Aerial. All you have to do is after you type the numbers you want, while holding down the Alt key, type in the following numbers 0176 (zero, one, seven six) then let up on the Alt key. The degree symbol will appear.

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22° Wow! It works. I know I'm a little behind on this one, but was surfing, and came across this tip. Now the problem is, I'll never remember it, when the time comes. :oops:

 
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Post by deepwoods » Sat. Dec. 19, 2015 1:03 am

Yeah, like my Navy service # when I was in boot camp. When we stood inspection we had to shout it out fast and clear OR face the consequences :mad: That's a # I will never forget!
I think I will make myself a sticky note and keep it close by :roll:

 
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Post by joeq » Sat. Dec. 19, 2015 9:27 am

Your Navy service # was 0176? How coincidental is that? :) In the USAF, ours was the last 4 of our SS#.

 
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Post by Canaan coal man » Sun. Dec. 20, 2015 12:39 pm

Just did a little test traced my lbs usage from last Sunday to this 4 50lbs bags of nut 28.5 a day In mild weather with a two day cold and windy weekend. Not bad but not the 10lbs a day that I was hoping for still less than the Channing at 35 lbs a day in mild weather. Plus the house is running warmer to. In this windy weekend I found a grate use for the check damper elbow.

Now Friday night when the wind started I loaded the stove for the night and set for 300° I woke at 12:00 to a 82° house and a 525° stove. The wind was pulling a strong draft of .08 and I had a strong fire roaring . By opening secondary and check damper I got the stove to calm back down to a mild 350°. So all in all I'm glad I took the time to restore and install the elbow.

 
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Post by windyhill4.2 » Sun. Dec. 20, 2015 12:55 pm

Lightning wrote:
Canaan coal man wrote:I didn't touch the primaries thinking the stove would stay running around 300* just with a higher stack temp. WRONG I came home and the house was 87* stove was at 400* Draft was .07. Wow it still boggles my mind how sensitive to draft these hand feds are.
I'm sure I'll get tomatoes thrown at me for this :lol: but, a baro would take of that for ya.. ;)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What he said is still correct. :)

 
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Post by joeq » Sun. Dec. 20, 2015 1:00 pm

Thanx for the up-date CC. Good to hear you're satisfied with the performance. Your draft issue brings up a question I might present to the masses.

 
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Post by Canaan coal man » Mon. Jan. 04, 2016 9:31 am

well we have some cooler weather coming in for today and tomorrow, But so far after the warm Christmas, stove is running great keeping the stove at 400*-425* house ranges from 77 during the day to 71 at night. burning an honest 40-45lbs a day.

I will see if it keeps up with the expected 5* low for tomorrow morning. How hot can I safely run this thing for long periods of time? 600*?

 
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Post by joeq » Mon. Jan. 04, 2016 4:19 pm

Where do you locate your thermometer CC? top, middle or bottom of your barrel?


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