Optimum Temperature for Woodstove

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We have a woodstove that we use every evening and on the weekends to heat our home (use oil the rest of the time). We have a thermometer stuck on the flue. Is there an optimum temperature that we should try to keep the stove at? (Your answers will help settle a friendly disagreement between my DH and I!)

-- Cindy in NY (cjpopeck@worldnet.att.net), January 13, 2002

Answers

Cindy, I believe that "optimum" would mean different things for different stoves. We have a little Vermont Casting that is about 12 years old. We use the thermometer on the gridle of it as suggested by Vermont Casting. The optimum griddle temp. for our model is between 500 and 750 degrees. I think that flue temperature would be more of a safety issue rather than the optimum temperature for your unit. What kind of flue and how far up the flue are you measuring the temperature??

-- diane (gardiacaprines@yahoo.com), January 13, 2002.

is this a cook stove? does it have a catalytic converter on it? Usually,, the hotter the better,, keeps the cresote from building up,,chimney clean,, ect

-- Stan (sopal@net-port.com), January 13, 2002.

Ours is a woodstove not a cookstove. It is a Lakewood stove and is at least 12 years old. The thermometer is about 3' up the flue. There is no catalytic converter. Hope this helps.

-- Cindy in NY (cjpopeck@worldnet.att.net), January 14, 2002.

The paper that came with the thermometer I have said to put it on the flue at "eye level" and is marked as follows:

below 240*: creosote (forms) 240-470*: best operation 470* up: too hot

-- Phyllis (tmblweed@wtrt.net), January 14, 2002.


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