englander 25pvd troubles

I have the PDVC, and I shut it off around 11 last night. My house was 78, and we've had the house at 64 burning propain all winter. I hope I can run it on dead low heat, otherwise it might be relocated to basement....

Give it at least an hour to see how heat output is. Plenty of steel to suck up the heat...

seal tight not out doors or on a piece of equipment looks like crap. Wire Mold, or the plastic variant look much nicer. Easy to work with and different colors too.

jeremygrimm said:

Basically does the controller tell the auger to stop when it reaches a certain temp.

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Augers will always rotate at the set feed speed..will not change at certain temp unless you hook it up to a thermostat.

The flame will go down if a longer pellet jams the auger, but it will chew it down and then feed smoothly again. Make sure you clean the carbon off the auger throat. The auger will make a clicking noise when it comes in contact with the build up.

Hey JG, where do you get your pellets? I live near Malvern, but don't know of any Wal Marts or Lowes which carry pellets.

jeremygrimm said:

What's the best way to clean the carbon? I plan on pulling both augers this spring and doing a very thorough cleaning on everything. Until then how do I clean the throat (I'm assuming the throat is the hole the lower auger fits into.

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I just use a flat blade screw driver and work it around. Make sure you get the auger, the auger tube, the back wall of the fire pot and the burn plate as well.

Eric

Just the auger tube at the burn pot. It builds up at the bottom. I've never had an auger out in 6 years of running it.

I've never touched the top auger...just vacuum it out through the hopper once a year.

I must have the upgrade to urs mine is a 25-pdvc/55-shp10 built in 2007 has 2vac switches and an igniter. That tapping noise u hear is the metal contracting or expanding with temperature. Mine does it to. Unburned pellets are clinkers iI noticed the higher mine is the worse the ash is but never clinkers. I clean it religiously especially behind the burn plate down in the is tons of fine ash I blow out with compressor I can't get vac in thr stupid design. Almost all winter mine runs at 3 and 9 on mode b iI believe. Bout 1 bad a day in basement small 2 story house no insulation. My board is screwed so can't do a reset on it the 3rd number the 1 don't light up and button dont work. Englander said if works let it rip been fine all yr. I got Pennington's now not bad not great. I like the instant heats or barefoot but home depot has green supremes which work nice. In my stove I stay mostly hardwood the few softwood I've tried have to much dust in bag.

I forget which mode I'm on I remember Englander said to put it back to I guess d but it runs better 1 off. U sound like me I was on 3rd shift now 2nd its rough 3rd I loved. My buddy has a similar stove but gets clinkers in his but he doesn't clean it right at all. The thing I noticed with these is all things gota be perfect no vacuum leaks and clean clean clean. The cleaner the better the burn.

that tapping sound.... watch the auger motors with the back of the stove off. this happened to me. I thought it was carbon on the mouth of the auger chute. it wasnt. I couldnt figure it out until the problem stopped the stove. Everyone once in a while, the auger lifts itself up when it meets resistance. when it muscles through, it falls back down on its little metal shelf. thats the tapping sound. over 2 years that tapping put a hole in the case of my bottom auger and started an indentation in my top auger.

Solution is to take a piece of flat gasket and hi temp gasket adhesive and glue it to the shelf the auger motor rests on. now it falls on the soft gasket material vs hitting another metal part.

Wow that is bad I never had the ash hit the glass. Mine had corn in it when I bought it lol guy never cleaned it. I was guna buy a Harmon this yr but I think I'll just overhaul it real good grind it repaint it. My vac hoses were stiff and crumbled when I bought it. Englanders prices for shipping is nuts. I got 3ft on eBay of high temp silicone auto hose 2 bucks free shipping works great for 3 ft.