Welcome aboard, I'm over in Oneida, I can see the old Erie canal from my sugarhouse.
The sap will start this weekend and will flow almost every day into April. You will be glad you added 3 more pans. Be ready for long boils and have your wood split about wrist size for a hotter burn. As long as you have sap in the pans there is no such thing as too hot. Just be sure to monitor the depth when the steam fills the air, it only takes a second from oh-oh to oh no.
Dave Klish, I recently ordered a 2x6 wood fired evaporator from A&A Sheet Metal which I will be converting to oil fired
Now have solar, 2x6 finish pan, 5 bank 7x7 filter press, large water jacketed bottler, and tankless water heater.
Recently bought another Gingerich RO, this one was a 125, but a second membrane was added thus is a 250, like I had.
After running a 2x3, a 2x6, 3x8 tapping from 79 taps up to 1320 all woodfired, now I'm going to a 2x6 oil fired and a 200-425 taps.