Hi Pete69, thanks for the infos. Few years ago, before beginning the modifs I tried to improve the stove's performances and tried to burn with the side air control open, closed and some between. Not great succes. My first stove was a brand new Vigilant 1wood burning. The worst of the 5 Vermont Castings I had. After loading wood for the night, at midnight there were almost always back puffs and strong enough to lift the top griddle and leave unburnt gasses in the house. Very bad during the night. Then I did tried many adjustments. That is when I discovered that the side air control did not a big change. I think the reason for the inefficacy of it is because the air entering is cold air and at a cold place. All new wood stoves have hot air to burn gasses. On the Vig11, the cold air coming from the side air control is sent to a just warmPete69 wrote:I suggest that you run the stove for a couple days with the secondary air flap open and report back with the results. You may need to readjust the rear air flap to open a little more, because you would be robbing some draft for secondary air.
A short trial period before making modifications wouldn't hurt. Although I'm looking forward to see how future mods work out.
place in the Z back chamber , where the gasses have already transfer the heat to the top and to the R. and L. sides of the stove so it is impossible to ignite gasses there.
Dont you think it would be easier to ignite gasses with super hot air instead of cold air and at the top of the fire chamber?