Late model VC Resolute Acclaim Non Cat Stove anyone own one how does it perform?

[Del_]

That's a pretty stove but it is small.

 

[sunfish]

That's a pretty stove but it is small.

That's why I want this model.

The F118 CB is too much for our 1200 sq feet and doesn't work well with a small fire.

 

[trophyhunter]

That's why I want this model.

The FS118 CB is too much for our 1200 sq feet and doesn't work well with a small fire.

Sunfish you get how these new clean burn stoves actually work, that was a big part of the reason I went with this one it's needs to heat just under a 1000 sq' room in the worst of winter in zone 4 and it will do it easily without trying to short load the stove and burn it at a marginal rate.

We had larger late model certified stoves in that area and both of them were a royal PITA trying to run a small fire all the time. We've learned the hard way all non~cat reburn certified stoves with the secondary burn air tubes just below the baffle have a dedicated air inlet totally independant of the combustion air regulation control to those reburn tubes and the stoves don't burn right at lower temps at all. The stove has to be run hot enough on a fresh load of wood gassing off for those tubes to ignite the unburned smoke or it just acts like a smolder pot and pushes air in from the tubes rolling the smoke away from the baffle exit to the chimney choking the fire.

Have fun opening the door to try and tend it when that happens, smoky mess! This new F3 is no exception to the design, at the rear of the stove there is a protrusion in the casting with a non adjustable slotted opening in the bottom that feeds air to the reburn tubes all the time so same basic design as any other one I've seen.

We should be able to load this F3 and let it go at half throttle for a bit as it gasses off and the secondaries burn before closing it down to burn the load of wood without the room getting into the mid 90's.