Thermometer for double walled pipe?

[Upidstay]

I have double walled stove pipe on my Regency 3100 wood stove. I would like to attach one of those magnetic thermometers to the pipe to make sure I'm burning at the correct temp. The one I bought (shoulda read the label first!!) says it's not for double walled pipe.

The kid at the local stove store said to just attach it to the stove itself. Not sure if this would give me an accurate reading.

Question is, can I use this thermometer this way, or is there a thermometer for double walled pipe??

 

[habanero]

If you want to measure the temp of your pipe, you'll need a probe-type thermometer. You drill a hole in both walls of the pipe to insert the probe.

I have double-wall pipe and use a magnetic thermometer on top of the stove. The only thing you have to watch is the temps you'll get on top of the stove will vary from what you'd get on the pipe (and on some stoves will vary depending on the location on the stove itself), so you have to account for that. Your owner's manual might have some information about "proper" stove temps.

 

[Woodjack]

I have a Regency 3100, too. I put the thermometer on the stove top, just in front of the flue. That's the best place to gauge stove temperature.

 

[Dok]

Here is what I use:

Flue Gas Thermometer

Dok

 

[Booshcat]

You need to learn your stove.
I have an insert, and after a few months I didn't need a thermometer.
You will come to know your fires, and best of all how to get a long burn.
I used a plain old rutland magnetic on the top of my insert.
After a while it became obvious that its pretty relative to whats going on inside.
If the thermometer melts, your'e running hot
Good Luck and Merry Christmas
bob

 

[Woodjack]

I've never seen a thermometer to measure the inside temperature of double walled pipe.

I suggest that you do not drill into your double walled pipe. It is designed to function as a sealed unit and you may be creating a dangerous situation.

Be careful with those magnetic thermometers. I have heard of cases where they have fallen off of stove pipe and ended up on the floor! I have three sitting on top of my stove....why three? Because I've had them for over 25 years! Now I never know what my stove top temperatures is...because they all three read differently. If I only had one I'd be certain how hot my stove was!

I don't think it even matters if the thermometer is correct, as long as it's consistent. If my thermometer had no numbers on it it would still be fine. It's really just a gauge to help understand your stove.

 

[Moss Man]

I use one on the pipe and one on the top surface of the stove. The one on the pipe I look at, but the other one I rarely do. I try to keep the pipe one at around 300-350 for a clean efficient burn.

 

[habanero]

I agree. In fact I don't even look at the thermometer. I gage how the fire is doing by looking at it through the glass on the front door.

The thermometers are not needed at all on stoves with a good fire view.

I don't know about other stoves, but on my Harman TL300, I think a stove-top thermometer is almost a must have. Because of the down-draft design, it is kind of tricky to know when it's hot enough for the afterburn system to light off. The fire can look great (lots of coals, clean flames), then you close the bypass damper and go outside and a horrible amount of smoke is coming out of the chimney. If you look at the thermometer, though, and wait until it's up to temperature before closing the damper, it almost never smokes.

 

[mtfallsmikey]

Funny, I've never used one on a woodstove..only when I serviced oil/gas equipment.

 

[KsWoodsMan]

For years I never used one either. A few years ago, I got the itch to know just how hot or cold my stack temps were running and ended up installing one. Turns out I was running hot enough to keep it out of the creosote range (most of the time). I did notice that I started shutting it down a bit quicker, on initial start-up, with the thermometer on there. The temp spikes seemed to be less intense afterwards. Burn time seemed to improve too. Might have had something to do with not having a wife with feet like ice opening the air up to it all the time. :dunno:

Thats when I really started paying attention to how I was loading the stove and starting the fires, not just filling it up and trying to get good heat ASAP.

 

[husky455rancher]

can i ask how does how you load the stove effect burn times?