First start..will it hurt?

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New 52i installed. Guy was supposed to come with meter and do draft check and voltage test, but it's too cold for him.
Can I start it with factory settings and run it a few days with no worry?
Carl
 
I did with no trouble... but i am looking forward to a pro or more seasoned member to chime in as this is my first year burning and im learning...
 
Draft check on the Harmans is way over done. Not much to be done if its to much. Have a voltmeter? Check your outlet and if its 110 to 125, put some pellets in and let it go. If its to cold for him what the @&*# is it for you. Lame story. Yesterdays high here was 10.
 
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Bioburner said:
Draft check on the Harmans is way over done. Not much to be done if its to much. Have a voltmeter? Check your outlet and if its 110 to 125, put some pellets in and let it go. If its to cold for him what the @&*# is it for you. Lame story. Yesterdays high here was 10.
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Yeah that's how I feel but this is maryland and the ravens are playing
 
Superglyde said:
Yeah that's how I feel but this is maryland and the ravens are playing
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I am watching the Vikings freeze against the Packers, 19 degrees. Coldest November game played there.
 
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Ok. I started it
 
That draft is WAY too strong! I've heard of vacuums holding up a bowling ball, but that's nuts! It got the pumpkin too!
 
Bottom feeding hopper??
 
This is how you tell when you have had 1 two many :rolleyes:
 
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Good luck super-G , Nice stove. new 52i here also. Once started I move the toggle to manual dial your room temp in and have feed rate set to 3 3/4 will go to Maint burn when temp is reached. There's a bunch of different ways to run it.
 
MarkSJohnson said:
Shut it off! Shut it off! The flame is burning upside down and it will pump out cold air!
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and produce pellets!?!!

Or is it a top feed Harman?
 
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sante fe said:
Good luck super-G , Nice stove. new 52i here also. Once started I move the toggle to manual dial your room temp in and have feed rate set to 3 3/4 will go to Maint burn when temp is reached. There's a bunch of different ways to run it.
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Thanks sf
I'm having a hard time. Running like a champ but distribution fan stpped blowing and fire lowered presumably cause I was in room temp mode but I need it to blow and heat other than the den.
I switched to stove temp mode and had to it to auto to make it blow out heat. Went down again so jacked up the temp and feed rate. Tweaking exercise but I want to minimize pellet consumption but push out heat.
Right now it's putting out great heat on stove temp mode, feed 2.5, temp on 5 (75), and switch to auto cause someone said that keeps the fan running
 
Bump the feed rate up to 3.5 - 4 and turn the temp down. Don't wanna starve the stove.
 
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Bump the feed rate up to 3.5 - 4 and turn the temp down. Don't wanna starve the stove.
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Not sure what you mean by starving the stove. It's burning pretty darn ferocious and pushing out hot air like a banshee right now. I'm confused by this whole feed rate versus temp setting. Doesn't low feed rate and high temp save on pellets?
 
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Not sure what you mean by starving the stove. It's burning pretty darn ferocious and pushing out hot air like a banshee right now. I'm confused by this whole feed rate versus temp setting. Doesn't low feed rate and high temp save on pellets?
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Ahhhh Grasshoppah....so much to learn. Read the link in my signature. Set your feed rate and forget touching it again...welcome to Harman ownership.
 
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SG, make sure you read the sticky "How Your Harman Works", I have referenced it often, when trying to figure mine out. There are also a couple of techs which post when not out making a living. Read a bit, you have a good start with a great stove and excellent pellets. I have been at this for 20 years, still learning, but I was in the dark before I found this site.
 
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Ahhhh Grasshoppah....so much to learn. Read the link in my signature. Set your feed rate and forget touching it again...welcome to Harman ownership.
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Thanks for your sticky again and I've read it 4 times in the last week and it seems the goal is to have it in room temp mode. I started it exactly so, but the blowers would stop kicking out heat while I watched this nice flame and saying" darn where's my heat!" Then it would come back on and repeat over and over while the front half of the house stayed cold, the den was at temp. So I put it In stove temp mode with the settings above and I have constant heat blowing and don't believe I am starving the stove.
Thanks for all the advice I really need it after using buck stoves and hickory for 40 years.
 
The trick with the room mode is to put that room probe where you want the temperature to be that you set on the stoves controls.
 
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Superglyde said:
Not sure what you mean by starving the stove. It's burning pretty darn ferocious and pushing out hot air like a banshee right now. I'm confused by this whole feed rate versus temp setting. Doesn't low feed rate and high temp save on pellets?
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Don't know if it will save on pellets if you always have a high flame and they are burning at a quick rate.
 
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Bump the feed rate up to 3.5 - 4 and turn the temp down. Don't wanna starve the stove.
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I usually have my P43 around 3-3.25 feed, 5 heat, in stove temp mode at 2/3-3/4. I get close to 20 hours burn time a bag, probably less, but I'm not always home to find out when it dies out.
 
I run in room temp/ manual with the feed set at 3.5. Temp set at 72-73. Last night I put a bag in at 8:45 and i put the next bag in at 1:30 this afternoon. It was pretty cold out today with the temp at 19, wind chill of 2. I'll top it off tonight after the game. Probably won't take a full bag, but don't wanna wake up to a cold house. Wife hates that.
 
Well all went to crap. Watching the stove and a movie and something started making a terrible racket. Shut the stove down and noise slowed down then back up so I'm guessing its a problem with the combustion motor. Cycled a few times like metallic rubbing/grinding in sync with speed.
To top it off, the door won't open when you unlock the handle.
Did I get a lemon?
 
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