Just installed cab50. cleaned the pot after 1st day of burn and chunks of pellets dropped into the ash pan. I lowered the feed rate by about an inch. Burned for another day and same thing. Any suggestions on how to stop this.
if you have chunks of pellets remaining in the burn pot, that isn't right.
do you mean pellets that strike the edge pot and end up on the floor of the firebox?
you will get a few of those from time to time.
but it sounds like you are saying there are unburned pellets in the bottom of your burn pot. (where the fire happens)
i'm having a hard time imagining how that would even happen unless the flame was exceptionally weak.
although, i will often get a few fresh pellets that drop down the chute when i am doing the cleaning. those that were just on the edge and ready to drop.
try to notice if some pellets get jarred lose and drop when you pull the cleaning rod.
that may explain what's happening.
it's hard (for me) to imagine any other way unburned pellets would end up in the ash drawer if the stove is burning normally.
if you could describe it a little more, the air flow experts may be able to help.
i really think your feed gate isn't the cause of what you are describing.
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btw- i have the feed gate closed as far as it goes on my ps50.
that gives me a flame on medium that doesn't extend much above the top of the opening of the chute where the pellets drop in.
typically you want the flame on medium to range somewhere between the bottom of that opening and the top of it.
i find if i open the feed gate much more, the flame on medium gets a lot higher pretty fast.
if i opened the gate a bit more, i could get more heat on medium. but i prefer to trim it so that i have some room to work with when i run on high.
the way i do it is i will run it on high when it's really cold out. but just long enough to bump up the room temp and to get the stove good and hot.
then i switch it back to medium.
the feed rate will also be affected by the length of the pellets you burn.
short pellets will cause the auger to deliver more total pellet mass per cycle as they fill more of the void in the auger channel.
longer pellets will leave more void space. resulting in less mass being delivered per cycle.
the mwp blend i have been burning has a lot of shortish pellets. so i keep the gate closed down.
that could be different if i was burning a longer pellet.
where you set the gate is based on how that setting ultimately affects your flame height.
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