New Accentra 52i Insert - Help with Room Temp

Hello! Sorry about the typo in the title, somehow I hit the #1 and didn't realize it.

Ok so we are brand new to pellet stoves. Had them installed in September and absolutely LOVE it. The 52i is beautiful and the heat is awesome!

Have been using it in the mornings and evenings to take the chill out and it is awesome in our wide open floor plan! Much faster warming than our forced air and don't have to run the whole time. Happy happy!

So we dropped into the 30s last night here in PA. The Accentra ran all night and burned a full bag of Hamers from about 830pm to 630am. Thought it should go longer for the bag, and probably should have if the burn adjusted throughout the night but it seemed to burn high all night.

I'd really like to get this figured out before long since I don't want to blast thru the pellets too quickly knowing we will need them when the 'real cold spells' hit.

Problem is it does not ever seem to cycle into low.....doesn't seem to adjust to room sensor I guess i should say. I have to say it has never looked to self adjust low off or on.

It is set at about 72 degrees, ignitor auto, room temp blower.

Does this mean the probe is not reading the temp? It is set just to the left side of the hearth so it is not directly in the blower line - gets no draft nor heat radiation but it should know when the room gets to temp, right?

I slept in the living room with it and at one point thought I was melting but was too tired to fiddle with it at the time. I am going out to buy a room thermometer or 2 today to put up in different areas around the house to see what the temps read. Will put one right near the probe too.

Is this normal? Doesn't seem to be since it is on room temp but, this is our first go with overnight burn.

Any suggestions? Thanks

Mine doesn't seem to cycle on or off......at least not in what I have seen so far. Our thermostat for our forced air unit can read 72 and the burn on the Accentra doesn't seem to adjust at all. I am going to have to get the thermostats and set them near the probe to see what it is reading in that spot when I am roasting. And what it is reading when I think it should cycle low and high......hopefully moving it around will help it work to regulate.

I did read in the post on here that the probe "reads 6 degrees higher" which seems in line with your room temp of 68 and your setting of 73/74 for yours to kick on. So according to the "How Your Harman Works" post : https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/how-your-harman-works-what-your-manual-doesnt-tell-you.91030/ Yours seems to kick on in line with that.

NHcpa said:

I will bet in a months time, you will have this all figured out. I agree with bags ^. I tape my probe 3' on to the brick left side on the chimney away from the stove. no probs and pretty accurate. I will tell you though, past shoulder season, I let it run on manual at setting 3.

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Thanks. Why do you choose manual vs auto after shoulder?

bags said:

May need to adjust the location of your room sensing probe. If it is lying on a cool stone hearth or the floor it will not read correctly. I do not have a 52i but they all run similar. I have my probe up about five feet high and away from the stove somewhat. My P68 will stay withing a degree or two of what my central HVAC system stat reads at all times.

I did have to experiment a bit and at first my room sensing probe was coiled up like it came from the factory on the lower right side. There it was not reading as well as I wanted so i moved it. Kind of a trial and error deal.

If your stove was burning you out then it is not reading correctly. The mode you are running in you should see it ramp up and down to maintain set temp and not running full blast all night unless it was cold. Either way you should not have been melting riding the couch.

Where is the feed rate knob set? Set it at 3 and see what you get. Set your room temp to 72* and auto ignite. With these settings and outside temps (wish I could see where you are located) with the room sensing probe in a good location you should experience the stove flutuating and ramping up / down and possibly shutting down completely at times or getting close to doing so.

Doing the thermometer locations test is a good start and will also come in handy to see how your air is moving throughout your home so they will be reused frequently. I did this myself last year. Good Luck and keep us posted.

PS, A properly placed room sensing probe and getting set up your stove will keep your place at whatever temp you choose consistently no matter what the outside temps might be.

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YES!! Moved the probe off the stone and up in the air (I have a large vase to the left side and looped in around there) yesterday morning.

Refilled the hopper around 1030am yesterday and it is now 640am and still have pellets and still running!

Moving the probe up into the air the stove cycled itself all day yesterday and through the night.....so seems all is well!!

THANKS EVERYONE