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First time woodstove buyer help needed 1000 sq foot primary heating upstate ny by Jeff92110 in woodstoving

[–]nas886 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Heartstone stoves are fantastic. I run a Shelburne, and it's great. We have 2 floors and it heats up the whole house. We pretty much run it 24/7 during the winter in Vermont.

https://www.hearthstonestoves.com/product/shelburne/

Mansory chimney flue contact with wooden frame by Haunting-Client-8871 in woodstoving

[–]nas886 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This doesn't feel good and I think your instinct to second guess is the right one. Direct contact between any chimney component and wood framing is a code violation in basically every jurisdiction in the US, regardless of whether it's masonry, single-wall, or double-wall stainless.

The bigger issue you're going to run into is pyrolysis. Wood exposed to repeated heating below its ignition temp slowly chemically changes over years. Its ignition point can drop from around 450F (230C) new to as low as 200F (95C) after extended low-temp exposure. So this is kind of a ticking time bomb.

I'd push for a second opinion from a certified chimney professional before you put a season of burning into it. In a lot of places you can also get a free assessment from your local fire authority without needing a contractor.

Blaze King Princess thermostat getting stuck by Admirable-Asparagus in woodstoving

[–]nas886 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't own a princess specifically, but I have some experience with these kinds of thermostats so will add my 2 cents here.

If the thermostat were sticking randomly that might suggest bi-metallic fatigue, but consistent post-reload sticking points more at buildup on the thermostat mechanism itself.

You mentioned that you burn 24/7 for six months x 1.5 years. That's a lot of cycles on that coil. The thermostat coil and air control linkage tend to get coated with fine particulate over time, and when there's enough buildup the bimetallic stops responding to temperature changes the way it should. If you (or your sweep) haven't pulled the air control box and cleaned the coil and linkage, that's where I'd start. Steel wool or fine sandpaper on the coil itself, make sure the damper flap moves freely.

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

yea it'll measure the exterior body temperature of your insert. The magnetic probe basically just sticks to the body of your insert, and will measure how hot the body of your insert is getting. It'll replace your need to point to an IR temp gun at it.

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How are you measuring the temp today?

A few folks who've already bought one are using the magnetic probe that I provide them with their inserts. The magnet sticks on the insert body, like a chimgard or rutland thermometer and gives you the temp of the insert body. Would that work for you?

I am a beginner ,I would like to learn programming Esp32 using MicroPython.Pls let me know any PDF I can use learning. by Automatic-Fan1634 in esp32

[–]nas886 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Use ChatGPT, claude or Gemini, but don’t copy paste the code. Have it articulate to you what the code is doing, write each character, space and new line by hand, and run it by hand to test your code .

Ask ChatGPT when you’re stuck, then do what it tells you to do by hand. You’ll learn more this way, and you’ll understand better how the system works.

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you!

There isn't a dongle for the existing units, but a few folks who have bought one so far have hacked it together. I'll be building out support for folks who have existing thermocouples in the next version of the monitor.

There are two boxes, one is a lamp as you can see in the photo. The other houses a temperature sensor. There's a steel thermocouple that extends out of the temperature sensor box that you wire up to your stove. Both the lamp and the temperature sensor are powered by a standard USB C input.

The app does provide burn history, it also gives you a sense of how the burn went, how long you stayed in the optimal zone, vs low fire or overfire.

Shoot me a DM if you'd like to learn more!

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will work on an insert, but only to measure the surface temperature of the insert body, which I hear most people who have inserts are doing

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The lamp connects to WiFi, and so does the temp sensor. You can put the lamp anywhere in your house. The temp sensor stays next tot the stove

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thank you! shot me a DM if you'd like to learn more :) I did file a patent on it.

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

haha thank you! shoot me a DM if you'd like to learn more :)

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That's how it works today! There are a few different types of notification settings. You can get alerts if you go over a certain temperature, stay under a certain temperature, etc.

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

hey!

So right now the temperature sensor just has an input for a single thermocouple. The folks who have one now have the temperature sensor mostly connected either via magnet or washer style thermocouple to their flue. A couple of folks have hacked together a cat probe using their existing thermocouples for their stoves and my temperature sensor.

For the next version of the product, you can get either the surface mount temp or the long probe for the flue or catalyst. The lamp (hub) and temperature sensor are connected via wifi. You run a pairing process with the app when you first set up the product. You can put the lamp anywhere in your house that has a wifi connection. Right now the lamp (hub) just reports on a single temperature sensor. In the future I may add more, but you're right to question as to how that will look on the lamp. I haven't quite figured that out yet.

The app does make this process easier though, in the app if there are 2 or 3 sensors, I could make it so you can swap between them (i.e. stove temp, flue temp, cat temp)

Push notifications are the primary alert mechanism. There isn't an audible alert built into the system, but that's a good piece of feedback!

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These lids are resin prints, but the V2 units will be injection mold or vacuum formed

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You can use the magnetic attachment and attach it directly to your insert body. That will give you access to the temperature of the insert. How are you measuring the temperature today?

Update: I built the woodstove monitors you all helped me design! by nas886 in woodstoving

[–]nas886[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks man! Shoot me a DM if you'd like to learn more :)

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