Brand new Harman XXV doesnt have a switch on the hopper lid.

Hi folks.

New to wood stoves and my supplier isn't open today so I thought I'd see if anyone here has an answer.

I bought and installed a new XXV yesterday. The one in the showroom had a switch under the hopper lid. My stove, which the box said was manufactured on 11/12/13 does not.

Is this an assembly error or has the design changed?

Thanks.

Stove is installed and working great. We did have some paint smell but that's all dissipated now. I wasn't sure if the hopper switch only turned off the auger or if it also acted like the pressure switch.

My son in law and I unloaded it from my truck and brought it into the house yesterday and I installed it and had it up and running in a couple of hours. Heavy sucker

I'm spending about 4500/year for oil with my house set at an average of 64°. I've been running this stove for a day, it is pretty cold here in New England today and it is keeping most of my house at 63° (with the exception of the room the stove is in). If I can figure out a way to get heat into the kitchen on the other end of the house or can raise the temp there a bit with some kind of elect heater, I'll set my oil heat at 59° and I'll save a bunch this year.

It is running all the time since I cranked up the room temp, will experiment with stove temp.

I'm not surprised by my cold kitchen, the kitchen is cooler than the rest of the house even when running my furnace.

House dates back to 1700's and only has attic insulation. Any suggestion for fans. I've ordered a couple of corner fans and am using a couple of my summer fans not to move the air.

Stove is sitting on the hearth at a 45° angle so it's blowing towards the front of the room.



Crudely drawn floor plan of first floor

So far I'm pretty happy, the whole house other than the kitchen is comfortable. It's currently 11° outside. I placed an oil filled portable heater in the kitchen and that seems to work OK. Still need to play with the fans.

My next concern is setting my thermostat on the furnace to come on a few times a day to heat up the hole in the ground I call a cellar. I'm not sure how cold that will get without the furnace running constantly. The house basically sits on a stone foundation with unheated crawl space until you get under the middle of the house and then there's the basement but it is open to the crawl space.