This might as well be a companion thread. I seem to be having stove trouble lately.
I did some testing today with my Optimus Crux. I took my Ti windscreen and paperclipped it to the bottom of my pot (no lower than the bottom of the burner head) and got 2 cups of cold tap water to boil in 4:30 with my stove turned low. The fuel canister was leftover from a prior trip, so it’s pressure was pretty low to begin with. The outside air temp was 45*. I’ll do a test without the windscreen later to see the results.
But here’s what is tripping me up. Two things – my stove is putting out an orange flame AND one section of the burner seems to be putting out much less of a flame. Look at the blue spots on the left compared to the right.
Any thoughts on the culprit here?
EDIT – did a second boil once the stove had some time to cool down. No windscreen this time. Water was boiling at 5:15. I noticed a very rapid drop in the output after one minute. The flame died wayyy down and was consistently orange. However, I didn’t see any difference in the flame across the head like last time. I’m sure the low flame was from a cold canister that’s just about dead.
This was at full-throttle. It leaves me wondering if the windscreen somehow had an effect on the burner that made one side of it burn lower than the other…I have no clue.
