I made the mistake of letting the thermostat do it's setback last night.
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alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
Oh that's in jest, I mentioned I supplemented oil over night one night here and got this lecture from him about global warming etc etc over my half gallon of oil I burned.. Truth be known, I did it again this morning !! LOL Harvey !
So, I figured out what the problem was. Silly me, I forgot that I didn't have flame height maxed out. Doesn't help that it's buried three levels deep in the control menu.
This morning -6
outside, 70 inside and the thermostat is regulating.
Ya gotta burn pellets to make heat!
This morning -6
outside, 70 inside and the thermostat is regulating.Ya gotta burn pellets to make heat!
tiger
Feeling the Heat
Curious... what kind of house construction? We bailed out on using set-back thermostats long ago (this is for boiler heat, I had never even heard of pellet stoves at the time). Great idea but we have a smallish house, not well insulated, brick-over-block construction. So much thermal mass, that if we let it drop at night, it takes forever to regain comfortable temps. YMMV.
It's a 28 year old, salt box, with wood frame construction and clapboard siding (this is New England). Reasonably insulated but not as tight as it should be.The room that houses the stove has too many windows (10), but I love the amount of light it lets in.
The setback thermostat is a built in function of the Mt Vernon AE. We run it at 70 during the day, and set back to 65 at night. I find that setting back more than that takes too long to recover the temperature, especially when it's sub zero outside.
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