It's comprised of the Sandia Mountain, Manzano Mountain, Sedillo Hill and surrounding areas east of Albuquerque. The ski resort is on Sandia. I live on top of Sedillo hill. Taos is in the Enchanted Circle 3hrs north of Albuquerque. Taos skiing is a hidden treasure that New Mexicans would rather keep local.
Wow you've done a lot of your own work on that property. Sounds like good ice fishing conditions to me.
Yeah, I've heard of Al's Run, and isn't Taos the gem that seems like the main slope comes right down to Main St? I've skiied at plenty of places, but never Taos. I think the problem is that I don't know anyone there. I usually go to Tahoe, Mammoth and Utah when I ski out West.
Last winter I stacked the blocks of ice I cut out of the lake, for my fishing hole and made an igloo for the kids.
So, my P4 constant test didn't run ten hours as I was expecting, but 9 hrs and 15mins. There may have been more pellets in the hopper when I stopped than usual. Usually opening and closing the lid, checking how low it's getting triggers little pebble avalanches. I didn't do that today.
Anyhow, I decided to fiddle with the feed settings today, given how cold it's been. I thought perhaps a little extra heat from the box can't be bad?
Based upon the Power5, 7.6sec feed rate giving me 8hrs of burn time and 41k btus, I decided to up the Power5 feed rate to 8.7secs. Lo and behold, even though the manual says you can adjust up to 12 secs, it actually only goes up to 8.2secs. Likewise Power4 maxes out at 7.0 secs, and Power 3 maxes out at 6.0 secs. Power 2 maxes out at 5.0 secs, but I set it for 4.7secs, and I didn't touch Power 1, but that maxes at 4.0 secs.
I had estimated my combustion rates ahead of time and punched them in, and then when I turned the stove on tonite, I measured the pressure readings. Interestingly they all were in range:
P1 / 3.3secs / 1850rpm / 0.24-0.25
P2 / 4.7secs / 2000rpm / 0.27-0.28
P3 / 6.0secs / 2150rpm / 0.29-0.32
P4 / 7.0secs / 2300rpm / 0.34-0.35
P5 / 8.2secs / 2450rpm / 0.38-0.40
Flame looks good. Stove temp in P3 is 222degrees. Tomorrow, I'll check to make sure P4 and P5 temps don't get too high.
Oh, I did check the pellet feed chute gap when I cleaned it over the weekend and the bottom lip appears to need some hi-temp sealant. I couldn't feel any air entering, but I'll pick some 700deg stuff up this week, if I don't forget.