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As you probably suspect from the good replies, you are burning wet wood. I burn mostly red and white oak, and it is not really dry until 3 years after splitting and drying under roof. I can always tell when around the wood burner if I have wood that is only two years old. There just isn't the same heat given off.
Keep working at it, but it sounds like your installation is okay. Straight up is best for a chimney. Burn as hot as you can, and with as little wood as you can get by with. You don't want the stove to get so hot that it shuts the damper down, as this just makes a smoldering fire and creates a lot of creosote from cool smoke in the chimney. Good luck, and keep working at it. It takes a while to learn the tricks for each stove. I'm on my third one, and thought I knew everything after the first one. Not! I have a Vermont Castings Defiant now, and I had to learn its tricks the same as the other two. Tonight I am testing out some dead elm that has not been drying undercover, but needed to be cleaned up. It seems to be burning okay so far.
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""I've had it for 4 seasons now and I've went through 3 catalysts! The first one went 2 seasons the second one. Now the third only went half a season! My wood is relativly dry, but it seems like the catalyst gets fly ash on it and over heats causing it to break apart.""
I have been wondering how long the catalytic converter would last, and how I could tell when it wasn't working anymore. I haven't cleaned it at all (do you brush the fly ash off?) in the time I have used it (Dec '01 to April '02, and Oct. '02 to now) which is running steady. When it falls apart, I take it that pieces fall out of it? That is certainly going to be obvious when and if that happens. I should be getting another one soon, to keep as a spare.
Thanks for your input. I think the damper is simply a mechanical linkage that you set higher or lower to get more or less heat out of the stove by controlling the air. I don't think there is any bi-metalic strip that adjusts the air automatically (I used to have an Ashley stove that would do that). I also have a wood boiler that has a water temp sensor that controls an electric motor operated damper.
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Two have mentioned about dirty glass on the woodstve. I too had dirty glass upon the first burns in the Defiant stove. I cleaned the glass the first time, and it was a real chore. After the second time, I sprayed PAM on (stuff used on cookie sheets, and frying pans, so food won't stick). That seemed to help a lot, and the stove went a long time before I cleaned the glass again. Much, much easier to clean too. Now its been a long time, and while the glass is a bit dirty, one can still see through it.
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