another wood stove question

[4nTN]

does anyone use a wood stove thermometer?specifically one that reads when your burning in the creosote zone.do you attach these to your stove pipes I wonder?our stove pipe is double insulated.in this case would you get an accurate reading?
if anyone can point me in the right direction and if you have one maybe you can tell me where it was purchased.


thanks ahead of time,

Sharon

[Beeman]

My thermometer broke and I haven't bought a new one. Double wall pipe won't give you an accurate reading, you'd need a probe type to measure the smoke temp. I have a non contact temp gun I use if I'm wondering what the temp is.
I did see a magnetic thermometer at TSC last night, another fine Chinese product.

[Cabin Fever]

Let's get technical here. The desired optimum temp is 300ºF at the point where the wood smoke is exiting the chimney. So, in your situation you might want to consider putting a thermomter on your double wall pipe while someone is up on the roof monitoring the temp of the woodburning gases as they exit your chimney. When the guy on the roof says the temp is 300ºF, read the temp on your stovepipe thermometer (for instance it might say 200ºF). What you want to do from then on out is make sure that the stovepipe thermometer always reads 200ºF or more.

[Wayne02]

Originally Posted by Cabin Fever

Let's get technical here. The desired optimum temp is 300ºF at the point where the wood smoke is exiting the chimney. So, in your situation you might want to consider putting a thermomter on your double wall pipe while someone is up on the roof monitoring the temp of the woodburning gases as they exit your chimney. When the guy on the roof says the temp is 300ºF, read the temp on your stovepipe thermometer (for instance it might say 200ºF). What you want to do from then on out is make sure that the stovepipe thermometer always reads 200ºF or more.

It's interesting how much the gases cool on their way up the pipe. My shop wood stove has 6" single wall pipe, 12.5' long inside, and then another 5' of insulated stainless pipe exterior above the roofline.

Max temp on the stove top is 500-550* near the collar. 330* @ 3' of pipe, 287* @ 6' of pipe, 256* @ 9', and 200* @ 12.5' where it enters the ceiling box and transitions to the exterior insulated pipe. Of course all the heat off the single wall interior pipe helps to heat the space. Just for kicks I've tried to get the temp where the smoke is exiting the insulated exterior pipe using the laser from ground level but no joy. Of course the outside of the insulated exterior pipe is cold (as it should be) @ 26*, and I tried to aim the laser at the underside of the cap thinking there would be some heat there but it was cold as well @ 31*. There is no visible smoke, just the visible heat signature ,and I guess to get an accurate reading 'somebody' would need to get on the roof and put a prob in the air current where it exits the pipe just under the cap.

[gone-a-milkin]

Oh, I really want one of those laser thermometer thingies.

They just seem like they would be So. Much. Fun.

[ET1 SS]

I saw a good 'deal' a couple years ago on those stovepipe thermometers with a magnet on the backside. So I bought 6 of them.

Since then I have found that the heat of the stovepipe makes the magnet let go.

I hate to throw them away, so I have collected them. But they will not stick to the stovepipe.

At first I stuck one onto our stovepipe. Then a month later it fell off, and playing with it, I learned that it was no longer magnetic, so I put it back in the drawer, and I took out the second one.

Then it died, so I took out the third one. .....

I now have one left in the drawer that still has a working magnet, and five that the magnets are no longer magnetic.

[springvalley]

I think I bought mine at Menards, and it still sticks. lol Thanks Marc.