CladMaster
Minister of Fire
Thanks for the info.
On mine I can set the heat and blower to any setting with heat / blower in both 'c' and 'd' mode.
Mine is 2011 with the latest prom chip (rev 13).
Englander 25-pdvc not burning like it used too.
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Thanks for the info.
On mine I can set the heat and blower to any setting with heat / blower in both 'c' and 'd' mode.
Mine is 2011 with the latest prom chip (rev 13).
slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
I never ran mine in "C" mode so I'm not sure if it would been the same but i would ASSume in would have been.....
Chrisnow86
Minister of Fire
CladMaster
Minister of Fire
Your stove is burning correctly, this is how it should burn.
When the pot was filling up you must have been using smaller pellets, with smaller pellets more are fed into the burn pot, too many will cause what's known as lava burn (looks like a lava flow). Sometimes this state chokes the fire and starts to burn crappy.
CladMaster
Minister of Fire
If it looks like this ....
Too much fuel.
Should look like this ....
Too much fuel.
Should look like this ....
Chrisnow86
Minister of Fire
I will try "c" mode after my pot burns downs again and see what happens. I have been useing the same pellets all year we buy them all at the same time.
Again very helpfull everyone ty and i will keep posting with updates.
CladMaster
Minister of Fire
If it looks like this ....
Too much fuel.
Should look like this ....
ok so my stove looks like the second pic right now and looked a little less than the first one before. but before it had more heat it was pushing out. Now I can actually put my hand on the top of the stove with out it burning me ( yes its hot but i can keep my hand there as long as i want) and i dont think that is right.
Chrisnow86
Minister of Fire
Well that second pic is with the stove set to mode C running on I think 5-9 for about 6 hours or so...
CladMaster
Minister of Fire
What is your room blower set at ?
Sometimes if the room blower is set higher than the heat number, the heat from the stove is thrown out quicker into the room, it cools the stove off quicker as the air is forced out the top / front of the stove.
I was running the stove . . Temp=5-7 (depending on household need) blower usually on 9. Since this all happend I've been running blower speed at same as temp starting on 5-5 then going up to 7-7 then 9-9 (Because my home is getting cold).
My harman is a beast but it cant hold up to the whole house on its own. I need to get this resolved and i dont have the money to spend on a tech.
Again and again and again ty all very much I am learning alot and i think im getting close to solving the issue.
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
CladMaster
Minister of Fire
Chrisnow86
Minister of Fire
Put the stove In mode C just for the hell of it, see what it does... You could jump the fire box vacuum switch just to make sure it's not a leak and the hose is good. And it's not disrupting the auger feed
jss227
Burning Hunk
Going by what I've read and the pictures, I had this same problem my 1st year with my PDVC. I thought I was doing a good job keeping everything clean. I vacuumed and scraped every day. I opened the cleanout every two weeks and beat on my chimney. By the end of the season I couldn't run the stove above 3 on settings 1-5-1 because it would get too hot. It would have a solid bed of coals an inch thick on the burn plate. The flames looked lively, but would fill the firebox. My problem was that I had never taken the chimney off the stove. The ash had built up solid from the blower wheel to the cleanout, leaving only a quarter sized hole for the exhaust. I take better care now.
Well I might try running in "c" but this is what I have come to think . . . .
My stove may have been running with an over feed "glitch" from the start of the year. After this problem with the latch occurred and I unplugged the unit, it may have reset back to a "normal" functionality, which to me would seem out of the norm for how it was functioning at the start.
Like I have said everything seems to be on the up and up; everything clean, everything snug, pellets are fine, feed is consistent.
Now the temp outside is regularly below 20f as Clad has stated it will have to work harder.
The upstairs 2nd floor (basement,1st,2nd,attic) is warmer still, since the problem, than it was last year so I am starting to believe that my stove may be fine and I have been wasting all of your time but with your help I have learned a lot and I think I will be saving up for a new Harman like the other one I have.
No insult to the Englander I just dont think it is a good fit to our home and regardless of model and btu. We needed an extra stove in a pinch and bought what we could afford at the time.
We had just bought a new house (120 years old) and found out it had no insulation in it. We were running oil, and the harman on full blast and could barley keep the house at 59f so the Englander has served its purpose and will continue to till we can afford a replacement.
Again thank you all so much for the help and information. I will continue this thread if further needed till then keep warm.
My stove may have been running with an over feed "glitch" from the start of the year. After this problem with the latch occurred and I unplugged the unit, it may have reset back to a "normal" functionality, which to me would seem out of the norm for how it was functioning at the start.
Like I have said everything seems to be on the up and up; everything clean, everything snug, pellets are fine, feed is consistent.
Now the temp outside is regularly below 20f as Clad has stated it will have to work harder.
The upstairs 2nd floor (basement,1st,2nd,attic) is warmer still, since the problem, than it was last year so I am starting to believe that my stove may be fine and I have been wasting all of your time but with your help I have learned a lot and I think I will be saving up for a new Harman like the other one I have.
No insult to the Englander I just dont think it is a good fit to our home and regardless of model and btu. We needed an extra stove in a pinch and bought what we could afford at the time.
We had just bought a new house (120 years old) and found out it had no insulation in it. We were running oil, and the harman on full blast and could barley keep the house at 59f so the Englander has served its purpose and will continue to till we can afford a replacement.
Again thank you all so much for the help and information. I will continue this thread if further needed till then keep warm.
CladMaster
Minister of Fire
Invest your money into the home --- insulate it as much as you can, once you have done this, both stoves should heat that house easily depending on the size / area your heating.
Close rooms off that you don't use, no need to heat area's that are not used.
Close rooms off that you don't use, no need to heat area's that are not used.
Why replace the stove? Spend your money insulating your home. More return for your investment.
Small update.
Did nothing to the stove at all and it is still running the way it has been. But what I did do is take a little extra pinksulation and cover my basement windows with it backed by cardboard add in a little spray foam insulation and my basement is already notably warmer (not by much) and got a 3' difference in the rest of the house. Not bad if I do say so myself. So until I get around to trying mode "c" I will keep finding "cold gaps" and filling them every little effort helps.
Thank you all, keep warm!
Did nothing to the stove at all and it is still running the way it has been. But what I did do is take a little extra pinksulation and cover my basement windows with it backed by cardboard add in a little spray foam insulation and my basement is already notably warmer (not by much) and got a 3' difference in the rest of the house. Not bad if I do say so myself. So until I get around to trying mode "c" I will keep finding "cold gaps" and filling them every little effort helps.
Thank you all, keep warm!
Chrisnow86
Minister of Fire
You will notice a big difference once you switch the stove to mode C with my stove it was night and day with heat out put..
DrewBoogie
Burning Hunk
Chrisnow86
Minister of Fire
This week I was buring minute man soft wood got them from TSC pretty decent pellet.. Now I'm trying to chew up some green not so supremes.. The ash and carbon build up is a killer but they do put out decent heat..
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