New Install

1st pic, see the little angle hood on bottom left corner of external wall thimble plate, that is where my intake is drawing the outside air from. 2nd pic is the inside and how it looks on inside, coming thru the inside wall thimble plate. 3rd pic is looking down directly behind the stove of the intake hooked up to the stove. I will say, I had some E3 errors, but narrowed it down to pellets. I had some Hamer's and Somerset's here that I started out burning and every thing went well. Tried some other pellets(eco Blazers) my brother in-law got and had similar problems you talked about. Went back to my stash and had no problems again. I narrowed it down to the length of the pellets in bag and the pellets were bridging across auger, cutting off pellet flow. Hamer's and Somerset's are shorter in length, pellets. So I revisited those pellets(eco Blazers) to try again. I only got 5 bags from him and had 2 bags left. I went thru both bags and snapped all long pellets in half so I didn't have any pellets over roughly 1" long. Thru them back in and ran the last 2 bags with no E3 errors. I must say, the 1st 3 bags of eco Blazers I had, thru me quite a few E3 errors, so I think I figured out what it was doing. I will be buying pellets that are shorter in length, from here on out, I'm not snapping pellets again. I have 20" thru the wall off back of stove and what you see outside in 4th pic. Outside I have cleanout tee, 4 feet of vertical, 90 degree angle, a 1 foot section and termination hood on end of 1 foot. section. I also ran 2 bags of Nation Choice pellets, that I bought at Lowe's to test. After opening the bag, saw they were a short pellet, they ran fine with no issues to.

SidecarFlip said:

My issue (and I've seen this happen more than once) is, when you terminate below a roof line, especially near siding, the blowback over a period of years will turn the siding grey to black and it won't come off.... My termination cap isn't black for no reason but mine is above the roofline. It soots the shingles a bit.....

Click to expand...

That was a concern for me too, but wanted to get it hooked up and going this year, it was getting late in the season and a cold snap was on it's way, less than 2 days away. I want to revisit it again next year and get it above roof line some how, with hoping I don't have to go to 4" vent, after having my money invested in 3", will see.

Robert_Nestle@hotmail said:

my stove seems to be feeding the pellets fine. But acts more like some sort of air issue. But have tried everything and no luck. But guess could grab a different bag of pellets to rule out the pellets.

Click to expand...

My flame height will drop real low into burn pot between pellet drops and will flare back up to almost heat exchanger tubes on inside top of stove, after dropping pellets into burn pot. I will tell you one thing, I have not ran lower than a #2 setting on controller, because a #1 setting, it will burn itself out from starving for fuel, that is even with damper on intake tube inside back of stove, closed off as far as it will close. Opening it up will only burn the fuel quicker. With it closed as far as it will go, I still have a sharp dancing flame with no black tips, it burning decent.