Information and Operations of My Ashley Model BCAC

corey wrote:To add the tstat has not opened since 11 this morning

They only open when you need more heat in the house. Sounds like things are working beautiful for you.

She is doing great not added coal since 930 this morning blue ladies are dancing around stove top just glided at 360 for hours dropped a bit recently. I just think I could do better by making my draft more stable.

corey wrote:To add the tstat has not opened since 11 this morning

Because those wind gusts are not having as much of an affect on the stove as you may think just by looking at the mano readings jumping up and down.

That difference between .05 and .11 is so slight a change in pressure that without the use of a mano, which is a highly sensitive instrument, you couldn't feel the difference. That's .06 is not enough pressure to move the needle on an engine vacuum gauge.

If you were to keep checking the stove pipe with an IR gun, I doubt you'd see more surface temp variation than you would on a day that wasn't windy.

Watching the mano on a windy day and worrying about what affect it is having on a coal fire, is like looking at tiny bugs under a microscope and thinking they are big enough to bite your hand off.

Paul

corey wrote:She is doing great not added coal since 930 this morning blue ladies are dancing around stove top just glided at 360 for hours dropped a bit recently. I just think I could do better by making my draft more stable.

A barometric damper will help to decrease lag time of your bi-metal thermostat which first has to detect a change in stove temperature before acting. If draft changes radically it can't react fast, but first has to feel the result of that change. I believe Berlin recommended a baro for bit coal.

franco b wrote:

corey wrote:She is doing great not added coal since 930 this morning blue ladies are dancing around stove top just glided at 360 for hours dropped a bit recently. I just think I could do better by making my draft more stable.

A barometric damper will help to decrease lag time of your bi-metal thermostat which first has to detect a change in stove temperature before acting. If draft changes radically it can't react fast, but first has to feel the result of that change. I believe Berlin recommended a baro for bit coal.

I'd like to better control heat output also.

franco b wrote: I believe Berlin recommended a baro for bit coal.

Yes, he did. And as I said earlier, there is no problem in using one.

But before installing it, he better make DAMN sure all of the old creosote is gone. He already had one flue fire, the next one may take out his grandparents house with them in it.

My other point is.........most everyone is telling this poor fella that he has to have a 70 dollar device, when that 6 dollar one is working just fine.

It makes no sense at all.

I brushed my pipes almost to bare steel last week just a film if soot left. The mpd seems to hold heat in its don't need that. It's 40 degrees out and we have windows open cause it 81 in here few hours ago.

I need something to help me even things out instead of holding heat in.

corey wrote:I brushed my pipes almost to bare steel last week just a film if soot left. The mpd seems to hold heat in its don't need that. It's 40 degrees out and we have windows open cause it 81 in here few hours ago.

I need something to help me even things out instead of holding heat in.

Can you turn down the incoming air more without sooting it up ?

Paul

Sunny Boy wrote:

corey wrote:I brushed my pipes almost to bare steel last week just a film if soot left. The mpd seems to hold heat in its don't need that. It's 40 degrees out and we have windows open cause it 81 in here few hours ago.

I need something to help me even things out instead of holding heat in.

Can you turn down the incoming air more without sooting it up ?

Paul

It's been closed since this morning. But the stove has stayed in around 350 now it 280 so I don't think I have huge problem here. My draft just need tuned in its easy done but I have to play with the mpd.

I've not been losing control it just wants to glide around 300 to 350.

If you can maintain control of the stove, with the MPD open..........open it. Only close it if you are losing control.

Ah we good it's just mild and sunny day today. May I did to use some slack coal on these days.

Also the temperature readings are directly over the fire bed. I did load her up today I will say that.

Tomorrow and Monday is going to much colder and overcast skies with snow.

corey wrote:Ah we good it's just mild and sunny day today. May I did to use some slack coal on these days.

Also the temperature readings are directly over the fire bed. I did load her up today I will say that.

Tomorrow and Monday is going to much colder and overcast skies with snow.

I think you should give things a while until you get accustomed to it. I also think you are just getting bored because the stove is running itself with very little input from you.

You can change if you want.........hell I really don't give a dam.
These guys in here brag all the time how they can spend other peoples money

Bored??? Did not imply that I was I guess when it hit 40ish out side the fire will have to go out. All I am looking for is a way to better manage the heat.

No I was not saying that I don't like the stove Don.

corey wrote:Bored??? Did not imply that I was I guess when it hit 40ish out side the fire will have to go out. All I am looking for is a way to better manage the heat.

No I was not saying that I don't like the stove Don.

No one implied that either.

It just appears that you are 'looking to change' something with your setup.

It's 30 degrees outside up here. I'm only running half a firebox of coal in my furnace currently. Gotta adjust to the weather is all.