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[MaverickM23]

I have an empyre but my dad bought an older g200 it's a 2012. It's been running pretty good but it seems like it's making a lot of creosote at times. The tubes aren't gummy but the firebox close to the loading door is getting a lot. Also it's getting a lot of water at times when the fire box door is opened its even dripping out of the door. I have tried adjusting the doors tighter and I replaced the main door gasket tonight to see if it helps. Any guys out there running this model with any suggestions?

[mlappin]

From running my G400, if your weather is mild enough that it’s going into the 3 minute purge mode then you will get more creosote as it’s not under enough load to run enough to stay dry. A long as the door latch “snaps” shut I’m not sure tightening anything will help much/

These stoves are very efficient and that in itself has a drawback, they burn very little wood but at the same time this can be a hindrance as they can idle for long periods of time and don’t build enough heat to keep them dried out.

I’m heating a 2700 Sqft 1800’s farm house and a 45x50 shop that used to be a cow barn. Not even a moisture barrier under the cement, no perimeter insulation around the cement and the only insulation is single bubble on the walls and double bubble radiant barrier on the ceiling. It’s just plain frigid tonight and the stove just did a three minute purge cycle. But, we drop the temps in the house down to 67 at night so the house hasn’t been calling for heat for awhile now and the shop is turned down to 40 at night just to keep the lathe and Bridgeport warm to prevent condensation.

[slimjim]

Yours more than likely has the flat, rectangular smoke bypass door and the gasket is likely leaking leaking by, it needs to seal tightly.

[MaverickM23]

Which is the smoke bypass door. His had three doors on the front and one in the back

[hondaracer2oo4]

Slim is referring to the door inside the firebox that you open when you are going to load the stove. I think you have the old style rod that you push which turns on the fan and opens the rectangular door at the top of the firebox. What is the wood moisture content?

[MaverickM23]

There isn't a door inside the firebox. This is the model that has the heater exchanger tubes on top with the clean out for them right above the fire box door. I turned up the temp to 185 with a differential of 9 to see if that helps

[hondaracer2oo4]

Never saw pics of that first generation. Can you post some pics? I'd love to see it.

[MaverickM23]

I'll get some for tomorrow

[hondaracer2oo4]

Cool. Thanks.

[MaverickM23]

Here is his stove from the front I took them this morning on the way to work. You can see where it is dripping out. I was amazed though last nite was 21 for a low and I used up all 6 big pieces I put in my stove, and my dad loaded his similar and he had lots of wood left while I had nothing. Maybe this thing is super efficient his is run through forced air while mine goes through a water to water exchanger and my house is slightly bigger but I was still shocked when I opened his firebox and it was still loaded up

[mlappin]

Yep, from what I’ve seen so far I’d call my G400 super efficient.

[hondaracer2oo4]

They certainly did a complete overhaul on the design with the current g series models. If you are getting excessive wet creosote dripping out of the firebox door I would say that is a combo of long idle times and wet wood. Have a moisture meter?

[MaverickM23]

Wood is all about 15 to 20% with bumping the set point up to 185 and having the differential of 9 I think it has helped some, I just couldn't get over how much wood was left in his yesterday morning, I thought mine was efficient but his puts mine to shame

[hondaracer2oo4]

How did you measure the moisture content? The fact his still had a lot of wood left over suggests a lot of idling.