I have a woodstove. In the front is a slider plate that I can regulate the air with. I have learned that this is the most important component in getting the fire to burn warm and long rather than short and hot.
But about a foot up the pipe, there's a damper. I have been reading about these, and have read everything from they're critical to they're useless.
What is the answer? Is it a combination of these two air regulators that control the fire? Should I just leave the top one vertical so the pipe has least obstruction and vary the flames with the air holes? Or should I use the two together? It seems to me that if you put it towards the closed position that it would become very hot, possibly dangerously so. What about removing it all together?
Steve