Just got the eco65 hooked up by the professionals today. First burn ever as this is our first pellet stove.
And we're burning....
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TimfromMA
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Wall mounted pellet stove must save alot of floor space. I find the sideways flames most impressive.
It's not big and fancy but already enjoying the heat after one little hiccup. Got an error code 20 minutes after the initial light up. Turns out we just had to reset the stove and try again, but the panic and disappointment was real for a few minutes lol.
Probably from the sideways mount on the wall lmao[emoji6]
Probably from the sideways mount on the wall lmao[emoji6]
rcook430
Burning Hunk
Don't have to be big and fancy. Just warm. The intial smell should leave after a couple of hours. The wall mount comments are just the other guys jealous they have the boring floor mount models.
NYBurner
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bogieb
Minister of Fire
Thanks guys. I bought the dura vent kit with an extra 24" single pipe to get out through the wall in one piece, using all 5 one foot pieces for the verticle. 2 reasons- no joint inside wall and lots of natural draft when the power goes out which it does quite often here in the winter.
bogieb
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Jason845845
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DDJR
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Hey there Darren. My name is also Darren. My 2nd season with a pellet stove. We love it. I find I'm much more relaxed about it than I was last year. No panic, just another day when something happens. The reset button seems to take care of most things. Just bought a ton of lacretes. Your stove looks nice. I heat my entire 2400 sqft home with the pellet stove and a few fans placed just so... enjoy the warmth!
Ladt night temps outside dropped just to freezing. On the lowest setting it kept the house almost too hot. There are 6 settings on this stove. Looking forward to testing it on some colder days. Amazingly enough the heat convected through the house quite well without fans. We have an old 2 story farmhouse. The downstairs is quite open with 2 stairwells going upstairs, one at each end of the house. I've already bought two fans to push the heat upstairs but if last night was any indication I might not need them.
Well....36 hours and 2.5 bags of pellets later I shut it down just to make sure everything was ok. Did the weekly maintanance just because and fired it back up. Took about an hour from pushing off to pushing the start button again. That's burn pot, ash pan, heat tubes, exhuast fan/chamber and visual of vent piping.
I've come to the conclusion that this winter is going to be nice. I've cancelled the last 3 cord of hardwood and ordered 3 ton of eastern embers premium softwood pellets to go with the 5 cord of hardwood I have for the furnace.
Happy burning all and I'll be hanging out and lurking on this great site you all have going here.
I've come to the conclusion that this winter is going to be nice. I've cancelled the last 3 cord of hardwood and ordered 3 ton of eastern embers premium softwood pellets to go with the 5 cord of hardwood I have for the furnace.
Happy burning all and I'll be hanging out and lurking on this great site you all have going here.
DDJR
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Huh... Darren, we also have an old farmhouse. Built in 1789. I'm in western ma, and our temp went down to 32 as well. Where are you?
I'm in Nova Scotia, Canada. Our house was built in the late 1800's far as we can tell. Mind you it's had quite a few upgrades over the years (windows, insulation) Although it still has the plaster walls and pine board flooring. It's far from airtight so I think that's part of the reason heat convects well. A completely airtight house has a lot of dead spots for air circulation.
Yes...I've cleaned twice now...just because lol. Just take the flat cover off inside the front grill and shove the provided cleaning rod down through. Piece of advice, go all the way to the bottom into the clean out chamber. As the brush fits very tight don't try to change direction part way down. A twist while your pushing the rod down through will help. There's 8 heat tubes in there.
Then I just vacuum. They provide a long handled scrapper to pull the ash out with but that may scratch the metal giving a place for ash to adhere to. I dunno, I figure the smoother the metal stays the better.
Then I just vacuum. They provide a long handled scrapper to pull the ash out with but that may scratch the metal giving a place for ash to adhere to. I dunno, I figure the smoother the metal stays the better.
I've burnt about 10 bags of different brands and will probably try doing a full clean this weekend.
Love the stove so far. It sure is a monster. I've found that where it will burn any kind of pellet and burn them well, regardless of the quality; sticking with a good hardwood proved to be the best bang so far. The soft woods seem to burn too quickly in the 65.
I did randomly get an L code last night when first starting it. Even though exhaust temps were around 120F, it decided it wasn't good enough. Hit reset and started it again, no problems there after.
See, now I found the hardwood didn't burn so well in mine. Lazy flame and had to turn heat setting up to 3 instead of 2. Although even at 3 they seemed to last just as long as softwood on 2. I'm going to try mixing 2 bags softwood with 1 bag hardwood and see what that does. Maybe get the heat of the softwood with a little added longevity of the hardwood. Who knows what will happen but I'm going to find out.
Friend of mine has the same stove. He claims he mixes 2 milk pitchers of whole corn with 1 bag of softwood pellets and gets alot more heat over just pellets alone. I may try that later on.
Friend of mine has the same stove. He claims he mixes 2 milk pitchers of whole corn with 1 bag of softwood pellets and gets alot more heat over just pellets alone. I may try that later on.
Yea, I've had some odd results so far. I've tried a bunch of brands and oddly enough the winner of best heat and low ash has gone to the NEWP's I had from last year. And they burnt some kind of awful in my englander.
Good idea with the corn.
Wow, 2 months already. We're about 80 bags in and I'm pleased to say things are working quite well. Once a week I scrape the burn plate and empty the ash pan, every two weeks I scrape down the burn chamber and brush out heat tubes also.
This may be one of the best investments we've made. Usually by now we've burnt through 2 cord of hardwood and all the hassles of a wood furnace (mostly the up and down stairs every few hours). I'm not really looking forward to that over the next couple months, who knows, maybe the eco65 will get us through the whole winter (january and february we usually see temps in the -25 to -35°C) but the cost factor will play there pellets being so much more expensive than cordwood.
This may be one of the best investments we've made. Usually by now we've burnt through 2 cord of hardwood and all the hassles of a wood furnace (mostly the up and down stairs every few hours). I'm not really looking forward to that over the next couple months, who knows, maybe the eco65 will get us through the whole winter (january and february we usually see temps in the -25 to -35°C) but the cost factor will play there pellets being so much more expensive than cordwood.
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