Scott,
I respect your opinion but I differ in my thought process. Yes the stove is designed to heat so much water around the firebox, thats why the firebox differs in size with different water capacities in boilers. If you have a 300 gallon boiler the firebox will be much larger than on the 100 gallon version. Also you said that longer idle times will lead to more creosote build up but with a larger water store it will take longer to reheat the water which means longer burn times which means hotter more efficient burns. Just like how you guys don't set the differential on the aquastat at 5, you set it at 15-20 to get longer, hotter, more efficient burns. What do you think?
thats why I said id it doesnt get hot enough to clean itself, due to various other factors like wood quality or moisture content
adding more water etc doesnt change your personal btu requirements, in batch burn units where they have huge capacities of water all wood is consumed in one maybe 2 fires per day
ive heated my home on stoves that held as little as 30 gallons of water and some that held 265, if simply adding more water was the answer they'd be doing it from the manufscturer because that would be cheap to do
look at emyre gasser units, a stove rated at 400k btu and 8000 sq ft holds 115 gallons
there commercial boilers are 2.5 million btu per hour and yet only hold 3-400 gallon.
Ive been meaning to ask you about your spray foam pipes? How I s that woekkng so far and are you concerned with gas depletion in the foam and water logging??