Inconsistant flame?

Could it be the CB trying to flush the pot and just is doing a poor job? Try put a volt meter on the exhaust fan and see what its try to do. My guess on this stove. Your the second in two days with problems with this new stove.

Stang,
People will gladly help around here but a more specific (catchy) thread title might get you some more action. Some likely just do a quick scan on the thread topics. List your stove make and model in the title with what the issue is. This being a new model there may not be a lot of owners here YET......... However, there are many experienced pellet burners here who can figure out the problem no matter what you are running. Good Luck!

Maybe something like New Vogelzang ______ here having problems with _______. HELP! Just a suggestion. As for the almost being bumped from page two that is nothing to be concerned with. Things can move quickly around here.

I also noticed Bioburner chime in. You need to follow these guys suggestions and answer their questions and try out their suggestions so they can eliminate possibilities and guide you. They are miles away and helping out blindly not knowing exactly what they are dealing with since they are not there checking things out.

STANG302 said:

In no way am I trying to be disrespectful. I'm on many forums. And none are close to the amount of daily activity going on here. Which surprised me, that's all.

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I don't think anyone took anything as disrespectful at all. I said to be model specific and problem specific because it will narrow down what you are after and trying to do. In a short time here I have noticed that it generates better and quicker problem resolution. Someone else here guided me in this way so I could get to what I was after.

I haven't seen many here with your stove but that's not saying you still can't get help either. I agree, and this is a pretty busy site. Some days busier than others. Have you figured anything out much on your new stove? I don't care which stove it is as there is a nice learning curve to each one. You have to experiment and see what works for you. Even if another has the same exact stove results can vary because everyone's situation is different.

Is the stove level?

Is there anything in the pellet path that would prevent a fairly even distribution of pellets in the burn pot?

Does the burn pot set level in it's receptacle?

Is the receptacle level?

Is anything blocking one side of the burn pot's incoming air flow, likewise the outgoing air flow.

STANG302 said:

I have wanted a bigger pellet stove for a few years now. I've had a Quadra Fire Sante Fe that has been dead reliable. Only problem is in my old farm house it just wasn't quite big enough. With a tight budget I looked around for used but nothing turned up. So against my better judgement I went out an picked up a Vogelzang VG5770. And built my own OAK for it. And it solved my BTU problem.

But have been trying to dial in a more consistent flame over the last two weeks. Don't' seem to making any progress. I have a nice constant pellet feed. But I either have a fast roaring flame or slow and dirty. Either one seams to flame up and then cool off over and over again. Regardless of a nice consistent pellet feed.

Looking for any and all advice to set this thing up?

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First off ... download the manual for this stove if you don't have it.

http://vogelzang.com.previewdns.com/cms/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/VG5770.pdf

This stove works the same way my Ashley 5660 does, it has the same core internal parts (blowers, snap discs, vac switch, auger and control panel).

This is a drop feed pellet stove, the fuel drops down a chute, this is timed by the program settings for each heat setting in the control panel.

Pellets drop into the fire pot and burn, they burn fast depending on the heat setting that you have set via the control panel. This also sets the room air blower as both are tied to each other. This also changes the exhaust blower speed up or down to pull in more or less air into the fire box / burn pot depending on which heat setting you have the stove on.

There is a damper on the air intake (OAK), this is used to control the air intake so that you can make fine adjustments to the burn, this allows you to dial in the stove so that there is no black smoke, the flame is not lazy and produce a blue haze in the bottom of the burn pot. The fire within the burn pot will look like a blast furnace, this is how it produces it's heat. The heat settings are timed to drop fuel very so many seconds, this allows the fuel in the burn pot to burn and produce heat before the next load of fuel is dropped in and so the cycle repeats, this in turn causes the flames in the stove to go up and down on each heat setting.

I hope that this helps you understand how this stove works to produce the heat that it does.