Hdhogger
Feeling the Heat
"Well I empty the ash pan when it is full".
Eric
You might want to dust of the thermo couple and wax the pot pull rod too. Be all set for another 25 bags.
"Well I empty the ash pan when it is full".
Eric
Everything is cleaned once a week right down to the pipes outside. I take it all apart. Fan motor, everything. The directions are followed to a T and then some. It's not a clean problem. The stove simply puts to many pellets down while the flame is perfect. There's not enough settings to control things. Too many pellets = big flame! You'll have a giant 12" flame and it'll be dumping pellets. How would cleaning help this. I dump the fire pot daily. Vac fire box twice a week and deep clean once a week. Top notch barefoot pellets. It just puts too many at the wrong times. It's a cheap stove so I guess I get what I paid for.
My stove came with the damper full open and the manual says to leave it that way. Never had a flame problem. Why would you close your damper almost all the way? I would open all the way, fire it up and let it run on high for a while. My flame goes higher and lower than the 4 - 8 inches sometimes, it's not going to be perfect.
Never burned Ambiance so I can't compare to what I've burned. I have burned GS with no problems feed gate closed all the way. Have had some tons that burned really well and some that were so so. Burned Energex hardwood, they were high ash and dirty but hot. More air introduced to a flame intensifies it, similar to an acetylene torch. Once you light the gas it's a lazy flame, when you turn on the air feed it starts turning into a really intense burn. If you overfeed air, it will blow out the flame. My flame sometimes gets real high 10 - 12" but on average it doesn't do go there to often, stove is in the basement so I don't see it very often, once a day to clean the pot and load pellets. Like i said before, your stove has substantial safety features built into it. So let it burn and if your uncomfortable with the higher flame just keep an eye on it for a while, not saying to sit there all night, just check it now and then. I just let mine burn, been a great stove.
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