FINALLY got a base burner

Sounds amazing Angel. 3 days on low B4 refueling? Is it making any heat? Are you having to dump ashes B4 the 3 days?
(TOTP)

I shake it down every 12 hours but the amount of ash I got out of it was not too bad... The front and top of stove is very warm but you can touch it back is too hot to touch and pipe is warm... I have the window in my suite cracked and its 35 outside so yeah its putting out heat... I filled hopper Friday morning at 0900 and the magazine emptied at noon today and the full firepot would of easily ran til tomorrow morning... It would of gone 72 hours no problem... Draft settings are primary knobs open 1/8 turn and MPD closed of course except for shake down it's in baseburner mode... Earlier in this thread Kingcoal said something about the micca stove radiating alot od heat... HE'S RIGHT!!!

I'm quite pleased with the control I have...

we are running in parallel.

our weather is about the same, my intake controlled by the bi metal is a 1/16" sliver, i'm in base burner mode and showing about -.02 draft inside the combustion chamber.

putting out enough heat to hold the house at 70* over night and 72 during the day. doing fine tuning by opening a window in the upstairs bath 6" or opening the door into the sun porch at the foyer by 1/2".

all while using 20 #'s of nut every 24 hrs. or .833 #'s an hour. due to the lay out of my stove and the magazine i have round the clock blues too.

yep, told you you were going to love it.

I've got ever the slight red bed no blue ladies... I'm now down to 1/8 turn on only one primary and it's just a touch cooler... I dont have a manometer...

I'm getting about the same results in my Home Stove Works 25 .

With daytime oat's in the high 30's and low 40's the past few days, I'm burning less than a pound per hour of straight pea coal with the primary almost shut.

The stove temperature right now is between 185f and 194f . Temperatures are going to drop here starting tomorrow evening and are projected to be in the single digits Thursday evening.

I plan to top off the magazine this evening with nut coal and it should filter down just in time for the temperature change.

Paulie

Now that we have some honest cold I have some updated numbers... the magazine holds about 40pds of nut... above 35 to 40 degrees I had her shut all way in and let her run totally out to see what my max burn in shoulder times may be took 3.5 days to empty the magazine then another day or so to burn out the fire pot... AT LEAST 5 DAYS burn on 50 pounds of coal...

Recently I have the primaries open maybe 16th in each and I'm at 2 .5ish for a full magazine... I've also found it does better with a 24 hour shake down instead of my normal 12hr cycle on the range...

The very chilly weather has allowed me to fire up the 130 year old baseburner... Dogs seem to approve...