Hi, I'm Chelsea and live in Michigan. We recently purchased a USSC King 8500 free standing pellet burner, 85,000-105,000 btu's heats up to 2,800 sq feet. We just purchased our first ton of pellets. We are averaging 1.5 bags/day on the lowest heat setting PR-1. Is that about normal? Our house is roughly 2,000 sq foot and well insulated. This unit is free standing in our basement hooked up in our duct work going out a flu. Is there any way we can slow down the agigtator ( the thing that drops down the pellets? ) Our unit is not hooked up to a thermostat as the unit was not wired up to do so. Any suggestions or input would be greatly appreciated. One more thing, so they pull a lot of electricity?
Avg bag per day for a pellet burner
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reallyte
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On its lowest setting it burns 10lbs an hr roughly. I highly advise a Tstat to regulate usage. Seems silly to not have one on a furnace.
There is a control thermostat on the unit itself. What I'm saying is that it can't hook up to our regular furnace thermostat.
Pellet-King
Minister of Fire
It seems high but it also sounds like the unit is grossly over sized for your house. I suspect unless your house is missing a wall you could have something with half the btu output. Is it cycling a lot? It should be I would think.
hossthehermit
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Wilbur Feral
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That's a beast of a stove if your BTU info is accurate. By comparison, I have a Quadrafire Mt Vernon AE that tops out at just over 52,000 BTUs, and it's considered a reasonably large stove. I might use 1.5 bags / day in it when temps outside are in the single digits most of the day, in a reasonably well insulated 40 year old home. If you're burning that much now, I think you need to focus on insulating and air sealing your home, frankly, because I can't figure out where that much heat could go in a 2000 SF home in October, even in Michigan. Even with just the stove thermostat, that's a LOT of pellets per day. By January, I can't imagine how many you'll be burning. As someone said, that stove sounds huge for a house of that size, and you likely can't even distribute that much heat effectively.
Arti
Feeling the Heat
Could you post a picture of the duct work that is distributing the air or dimensions of the pipeing. Also do you have a cold air path from the upstairs back down to the stove.
Ctcarl
Feeling the Heat
Holy smokes my p35i is a 35000 btu and on the coldest days does well on my 2000 sq ft split level.also I never fully cranked her full max. at the most the number before the Highest witch I believe is 7.i think a thermostat is your only answere and as mentioned above get atleast another 3 tons to try to get you past winter.that may not be enough .
I'm also curious.. What is the temperature outside? What is it like inside?
Even on the lowest setting it sounds as if it's going through a lot of pellets quickly; and your house would be quite warm. (like uncomfortably warm)
Even on the lowest setting it sounds as if it's going through a lot of pellets quickly; and your house would be quite warm. (like uncomfortably warm)
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