Thank god been looking and listening to useless info with ads and 20minutes of babbling but this guy nailed it and got me what i was looking for in less then two minutes
Just modified my hot tent wood stove and included a damper...super helpful to keep warm in the tent without getting smoked out in sub zero temps in the woods! Thanks for the brief explanation of this super helpful device! 🤟😆
Good vid Thank You, I would like to add a damper like this for my Lopi stove simply to slow the burn time, lower the heat a bit and have coals for morning firewood.
Thank you Captain Riker. My damper has been open like forever because I thought it was just a way to close the flue to stop bats coming down, now I know different and can have a bat-b-q free fire whenever I want.
Question. Would adding a flue damper to these modern stoves help in anyway? With retainingthe heat..seems like it would help but the community seems divided? Thoughts?
Dumb question of the day. Does the damper help in preventing flame from going up through the stove pipe? I have a stove I want to use as a back up heat source but don’t have the stove pipe up past the roof or up through the chimney. Having steam heat I’d love to be able to use both fuel and wood to heat the rads. Can I just feed the water pipe from my boilers out through the stove so it’s inside and the fire heats the pipe?
I'm not the one who made this vid, but I'm going to reply. I would say absolutely do not start a fire in anything unless it is ventilated properly. Especially if it's in your house. Once you have the fire safe and secure, then you can put your copper coils I assume anywhere you would like.
Those cheap and common box stoves really are bang for buck great stoves but they're not "air tight" stoves. Only air tights can be throttled down effectively via combustion air controls. Non air tights need flu dampers to partially choke the exhaust side of the stove.
Great info, does the damper require a particular height during the install that makes it more affective? I've been looking for videos on how far up the pipe the damper is best situated, and I cannot find any information about it. I noticed that yours is pretty much at eye level or somewhere therein..
I'm using a remote temp probe to locate the hottest area on the pipe. Will place it there for max effect. In the right place you can feel the heat back up as it's Closed. Ee E Ed E E E 8 Ea
I have the same stove and just put it in It started smoking coming out the top of the round inserts and the hinge on top is there a way to stop that? Thanks
Its normal for a little smoke to be coming out of crevices when your either adding wood or just getting the fire started. If it's doing it all the time I'd say your draft isnt quite sufficient. Heat rising should draw all the smoke up the chimney,but some atmospheric conditions can lead to poor draft,especially if it's not real cold outside or if its windy. A short chimney doesnt draft as well as a taller one. If your chimney temperature seems ok( use a magnetic thermometer) and your fire burns well and clean I'd ignore it
Question. Would adding a flue damper to these modern stoves help in anyway? With retainingthe heat..seems like it would help but the community seems divided? Thoughts?
There is no division you cannot use these dampers in a new wood stove plain and simple it will not perform correctly and create more emissions! The new stoves are all designed not to have them this will avoid warranty and damage the stove. Also void your home insurance! Do not do it 🙂@@amoryblaine1102
@amoryblaine1102 It will choke the new stoves down too much. I tried one on my Daka wood stove and the wood just smoldered most of the time. I installed a barometric damper and everything works fine.
