Jotul 118 stove Hot

I have been burning wood my entire adult life. I have had many different stoves and those who say the Jotul 118 has an all night burn are hallucinating. If you load the 118 you will get approximately, (depending on the type of wood,) a 2.5 hour heat output, after that your are surviving on coals. Others are correct in saying there is a bed of coal the next morning. I do like this about the stove. If you depend on this stove for your main source of heat you better get up during the night and add fuel or put on the blankets, as I do. I do like the 118 but was sucked into the eight hour burn claims. How stupid was I? I should have known better from past practice.
Cold in New York

Stove Expert Replied: Over-night burning can be difficult to achieve and may not be the most efficient way to use a stove!

It works well and burns all night when required.
Through years of operation spars are no problem to get (baffle plates)
Don't burn Coal in them as you will crack the side plates.
You get a lot more heat from your wood if you get the stove going and then turn it down, don't burn the stove with the door open as all that will happen is your heat will go up the flue if you must play with a fire get an open fire as you Granddad had.

PS
There is no airwash was on the model I have

Stove expert says: This is true - although it can feel like the stove gives out more heat when you open the door this is limited to a small area infront of the stove. In actual fact the nett result of burning with the door open is a reduction in heat output which can sometimes seem counter intuitive when you are sat infront of a stove burning with the door open.

We have been using the 118 for 2 years, and it is an excellant stove;
Its takes a 60 cm log, and if your cutting your own wood, that is half the cutting, splitting, stacking and handling.
It burns overnight and relights easilly with a rake of the ash and a new log in the morning. Last winter ours was never out between October to April, we even kept it going while emptying the ash, which we need to do about once every 3 weeks.
Its very easy to use. You are better to get a stove thermometer as a guide as to getting it hot and slowing it down! It burns better if you sit 2 logs side by side!

The old classic; takes 18" logs (less sawing) and is very contollable with just the draught adjuster (no damper).
You just need to keep raking the fire forward for maximum heat output.