ashley bay window stove AP5660L

JenniElle said:

Thanks all, much appreciated! Puts it into perspective a bit better now that I know what I'm in for.

Next stop is a sampling of different pellets before I get a ton. Thankfully there are a lot of places around here with a lot of, from what I'm reading, very good choices. It seems to like the Maine's I put in it this morning.

Very nice research of the feed rates, its helpful. I don't think I'll ever put this onto a 5. I'd heat myself out of the house with my dog running behind me. He's already boycotted the stove and disappeared to the cooler end of the house.

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Thats what I said about level 5 also but with the windchill and below 0 temps I ran It on 5 a few hours to keep the temps in the back of the house from dropping

I been burning mine for 3 days straight now. Have it set on setting 2, it is 82 degrees in living area. We do have a open floor plan and could not be happier with this stove. It puts out some nice heat. Yeah, the fire brick panels will chip up kind of quickly and loose it's new look real quick. I work for a company called Pyrotek. We make high temperature products for the glass & aluminum industry. Most products are at the smelting stage of glass & aluminum. Our material is for high temperature products. We have raw material board that looks like the panels in the stove that I am going to fab a set of panels from. We have a hearth division of Pyrotek that I have talk to, that gave me a idea of which of our material to use to make them from. Our hearth division makes more of the decorative log sets then anything. I also got some good info on painting them. They use 2200 degree paint, like found at most auto parts store for painting them up to look real.

In the land of new pellet stoves...aka my house...when I took this lovely apart to clean it again I found the air intake adjustment. Seems I missed that little lever there tucked away and hidden in the stove. Whoops! Definitely glad I decided to poke around in the stove and play with everything today. What a difference it has made all around not having that wide open, it's really putting out heat now with some new pellets (again) and actually getting all through my house and into the back rooms with consistent heat throughout for the most part. I had read the manual through a few times and was wondering where that was and thought maybe it was a piece that attached to the back that was missing and I almost called US Stove! Glad I poked around first. Probably should have done that last week. Clearly not new to this or anything...

One question though for those who have this stove, do you have the outside air kit installed as well? I did not, but I'm now wondering if I should have.

Glowing pot must be a US Stove thing. My 5502M does that too.