I believe the St Croix Element was designed for your purpose and I imagine it has room temp control. They make a good stove, I came very close to buying a Prescott before settling on the P61.. St Croix stoves are well made.
could care less if you bought one but clearance to my wall is 9" each corner..not much at all.
could care less if u bought one but 9" clearance on both corners ain't much at all.
Look at the new Harman Absolute. If it is big enough I think you will find the clearances at 6 and 1/4 inches to be very reasonable. And there are side vents!
Pete how you like your mini, how is it for cleaning, thats another stove on my list of possibilties
How much side clearance you need? The P61 and 68 need huge clearances, but the P43 is not so much, especially if you get the side panels. A corner install only needs 9" clearance from the back of the stove itself (not the back of the hopper), so that is practically zero clearance (although you need to think about needing to clean it). My P43 takes less space than my Hastings did all told.
Well you have no reason to change stoves anyway do you ? You seem to love this one !
You better start saving now if you plan to buy a Harman in about 20 yrs.Like you said though about a stove that shuts down when it reaches temp is why I considered a different stove but then I think back to why I bought a Pellet stove to begin with is because I was tired of the warm then cool from the oil burner so why buy a stove to do what I can already do with my oil burner.The constant warmth of the pellet stove is what I like best.When it's not cold enough for the Pellet stove I just let the oil burner do it's thing and so far this year the oil burner has gotten more use then the Pellet stove.
A couple of years ago a control went on our boiler for the second time. $500 later it was running and the guy said that we had a piece of stack with some rot in it and asked if we wanted him to replace it. Declining that I did it myself. Pulled off the old stack, found the collar going into the chimney chock full of ash, I mean like just a hole for gasses to escape through. Let me take a guess here, fire backfeed, too much heat cooked the last two controls. I remember a time when oil burner techs cleaned that stack on an annual, guess not anymore !! We have had two or three different techs work on this unit because I don't have instruments for electronic controls, i used to do my own on the old mechanical burners. But for that stack to be that full, none of them could have pulled that piping off.
