Heat setting not the same amount of heat anymore! Flame is Low but not Lazy!! Simple Solution Found

Don:

I can only tell you what I ran into on my Enviro Maxx. The air runs behind a plate, took the plate off & cleaned a smaller plate, I used a brush to clean behind. When I put together & started up, my Magnehelic Gage was pegged. I would suggest to follow the air flow & make sure
everything is clean. You also might want to check the exhaust fan. If you have burned a ton or more of pellets, then you definetly need a cleaning. I use the Magnehelic as a maintance tool to tell me when my stove is starting to plug. When the needle is pegged, that is maximum air flow &
when it start to drop off, it's time to clean. Hope this helps - Good Luck

Is it the pellets or the stove? One quick way to find out is try another brand. Or Its a dirty stove?

Your pellets might be past the 6 month date and need to be disposed of. Check with a local pig in your area from proper disposal. :cheese: See this thread for more info.

https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php/forums/viewthread/88102/

Don check the auger to auger motor couplings something could be loose.

The controls could also have slightly different timings.

Check for scraping or warped augers.

Are you running the same pellets in each unit?

Are the pellets being rendered into the proper color ash?

you have to rig up a way to both watch the auger and see the light to find out if the auger is turning the whole time light is on. I'd make certain the set screw that binds the auger to the motor was tight first.

Just a shot in the dark Don.....did you change pellet brand recently? If so, are the average lengths longer than the pellets you were using before?

Have you ever removed the auger motor, opened the gear case, and made sure the grease inside isn't old & dried out, and the connection between auger motor output shaft and auger is tight and not slipping?

When the setting it's on doesn't do what I want, I change the setting. Kinda like watching tv, don't like what's on change the channel. I thought that's why they made settings so easy to change, shows what a dummy I are.

hossthehermit said:

When the setting it's on doesn't do what I want, I change the setting. Kinda like watching tv, don't like what's on change the channel. I thought that's why they made settings so easy to change, shows what a dummy I are.

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LOL,

I usually clean the stove or operate my heat exchangers scrapper and then increase the firing rate.

I don't know hoss you might be on to something.

But Don will get it figured out and it isn't like augers and their motors haven't caused feed issues before.

Had the same issue with a lazy flame for the last 4 or 5 days. Cleaned everything (twice). Both times the stove would fire up nicely after cleaning but an hour later the flame was lazy again. Earlier this week I did start using Blazer pellets from a stack that was stored in a different part of my basement from where I normally stack my bags. I remember thinking they looked different (much lighter shade) and were much longer than the previous ton I had burned from Blazer. (I'm not bashing Blazer...I actually do like them)

Anyhow, last night I cleaned the stove and cleared the hopper out completely and tossed in a new bag of Bear Mtn pellets cuz it was getting cold and wanted some more heat overnight. Fired up nice and the flame was still looking great this morning. No laziness at all.

My new theory is that the Blazers had a high moisture content and that was the problem. Maybe from where I had stored them or maybe they were like that when I bought them. So I recommend purchasing a new bag/brand from your dealer and trying that and don't use another bag from your existing stash until you can rule that out as the problem.

Happy to hear your problem has been resolved! I know how frustrating it is when things aren't working right.