Has anyone used the Woodmiser product for wood burning stoves?

celerity

Yes we have a thermometer and the ash bed is probably too deep as it needs emptying .
I don't think we have a "through bed" vent. I have a lever to open the bottom grille but as far as I know that is just for cleaning, to allow ash to fall into the cleaning tray below.
We don't normally have smoke from the chimney either.
What is your stove rated at? Ours is 6kW I think (it's a Charnwood Cove 2) - yours sounds quite a bit larger if you have glowing coals left over from the night before, our ashes are cold in the mornings .
Our temperature doesn't tend to quite read 500F either - I'd say 450F is more normal for us (500F is actually just into the "too hot" reading on my stove thermometer).

The possible mistake we are making is that we leave our air vent at max most days. I once closed it too much and the glass turned sooty so since then we haven't touched it too much.

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zeupater

celerity wrote: »

Yes we have a thermometer and the ash bed is probably too deep as it needs emptying .
I don't think we have a "through bed" vent. I have a lever to open the bottom grille but as far as I know that is just for cleaning, to allow ash to fall into the cleaning tray below.
We don't normally have smoke from the chimney either.
What is your stove rated at? Ours is 6kW I think (it's a Charnwood Cove 2) - yours sounds quite a bit larger if you have glowing coals left over from the night before, our ashes are cold in the mornings .
Our temperature doesn't tend to quite read 500F either - I'd say 450F is more normal for us (500F is actually just into the "too hot" reading on my stove thermometer).

The possible mistake we are making is that we leave our air vent at max most days. I once closed it too much and the glass turned sooty so since then we haven't touched it too much.

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Hi

Low canopy version of this ... (http://www.clearviewstoves.com/vision500.htm) ... so not much bigger.

Z

celerity

Yours is rated at 8kW and I've just checked and so is our Cove 2, so we must be doing something less well than you... How many hours are we talking about for when you finish in the evening and then relight in the morning? Do you close your air vents almost fully overnight?

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zeupater

celerity wrote: »

Yours is rated at 8kW and I've just checked and so is our Cove 2, so we must be doing something less well than you... How many hours are we talking about for when you finish in the evening and then relight in the morning? Do you close your air vents almost fully overnight?

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Last fuelling would be between 10pm and midnight then next day the first logs will usually go in between 9am and midday, the stove usually still being around 100F-150F at this time.

The fire has two airvents, one which supplies air from below the firebed and an above firebed vent which supplies the door airwash. When burning wood, the throughbed vent should only be used to light the fire and bring the ashbed up to temperature when refuelling, normal running would be with this vent closed. The airwash vent is used to control the burn ... if you have large or fast moving bright flames you will simply be pumping heat up the chimney, so you need to find the position where the airflow balances the combustion required to allow the heat to soak into the stove before going up the chimney .... closing the airwash too much will simply cause tar deposits on the door. Overnight, we close the airwash slightly more than for daytime running, but there is still enough to keep the glass clear and maintain a burn.

HTH
Z

celerity

Cheers for this. I will experiment over Christmas - I have to say though, I'm currently thinking your stove is simply better designed than ours. We went for style over substance .

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keithwig_2

One on order. How long do they usually take to arrive?

Antispam

I dont believe these things work anywhere near they claim

stop wasting your money

zeupater

Antispam wrote: »

I dont believe these things work anywhere near they claim

stop wasting your money

Agree .... particularly not within a 'woodburning stove' where the high temperature within the combustion chamber encourages an even spread burn anyway ...

HTH
Z

ashiells

I was a bit cynical at first; especially when I saw how apparently flimsy they were. I have two large woodburners in our farmhouse. (We have lots of woodland). I've been trying a couple of these in one of the stoves. They seem to work and the stove has been easier to get going. The output seems higher; while the amount of fuel used over a normal evening is noticably less. I heat the house with the woodburners, so I am in a good position to judge on a day to day basis. It's still early days; but I am ordering another six for our biggest stove, which serves two big rooms. I'll let you know how that goes. Certainly worth a try. PS: I have no link to the manufacturers.

MarvC

I used the WoodMiser product last year and will definately be buying forthis season too. Incredible product, the difference is pretty obvious, yourpractically left with dust as opposed to ash and unburnt bits of fuel.
If your going to be cycnical about products maybe you should try them first!:mad:
I would imagine in a high end stove thats been engineered to the nuts theresults won't be so dramatic but in my £600 stove, I can't dispute it!
My neighbour uses a multifuel stove and would happily agree!
I would also imagine having paid money to research their product, it's not common practice to release the full study for people to try and rip off your product!!!!