Hello. I have been lurking here for awhile. My gf just bought a US Stove 5500M from Tractor Supply about a month ago. Got it installed and running about 2 weeks ago into a 1456 sq ft modular house, and it was a cold wet weekend. It basically cooked us out! We had it on heat range 1 and all else on automatic. We had the windows open and were still getting cooked out! She tried it again a few nights ago and same thing, got cooked out.
I have read some things in here about hidden settings in the control panel, thermostat hookups, etc. So last night I was there and it was getting cold so we fired it up and I figured I'd look for those control panel settings and try to lower the feed rate. I couldn't get anything to show up! The panel dimmed a bit when I held the Heat Range Down button and repeatedly pressed the Aux Down button, so it seemed like it may have been doing something. It also seemed to be burning slower and cooler, but hard telling for sure since the display told me nothing.
I am only at the house about twice a week so I don't have a ton of time to tinker with it or I would. She isn't there a lot either so we were hoping to be able to just let this thing run at a very minimal setting and save a bunch of money over electric or propane. And besides being too hot, going though a bag of pellets every 20 hours will cost the same as the EdenPure.
Any tips on trying to lower the feed rate? Was I doing something wrong or do I just blindly press buttons and hope it worked? A thermostat would be ideal to add, but from what I read it only hops between heat range 1 and 5, and until I can tone down heat range 1 then it won't do any good.
I have thought of trying different things if I had more time, like inserting a delay timer to fake a tripped thermostat or door switch or whatever. I can do it no problem but the experimenting with the stove itself is what I don't have the time for.
Thanks
I have read some things in here about hidden settings in the control panel, thermostat hookups, etc. So last night I was there and it was getting cold so we fired it up and I figured I'd look for those control panel settings and try to lower the feed rate. I couldn't get anything to show up! The panel dimmed a bit when I held the Heat Range Down button and repeatedly pressed the Aux Down button, so it seemed like it may have been doing something. It also seemed to be burning slower and cooler, but hard telling for sure since the display told me nothing.
I am only at the house about twice a week so I don't have a ton of time to tinker with it or I would. She isn't there a lot either so we were hoping to be able to just let this thing run at a very minimal setting and save a bunch of money over electric or propane. And besides being too hot, going though a bag of pellets every 20 hours will cost the same as the EdenPure.
Any tips on trying to lower the feed rate? Was I doing something wrong or do I just blindly press buttons and hope it worked? A thermostat would be ideal to add, but from what I read it only hops between heat range 1 and 5, and until I can tone down heat range 1 then it won't do any good.
I have thought of trying different things if I had more time, like inserting a delay timer to fake a tripped thermostat or door switch or whatever. I can do it no problem but the experimenting with the stove itself is what I don't have the time for.
Thanks