Before I begin, a little background. Whenever I have set up any fossil fuel appliance for proper combustion there is the proper air to fuel ratio. Whenever a flame has been white in color it signals the presence of too much air.....
In regards to the Eko, many have complained about the burning/cresote smell that emits from the upper chamber door. I have heard this from many of our customers & it has been a hot topic on the wood boiler forums. I have been told that a new gasket should be forthcoming to correct the situation but a little voice in my brain kept saying the gasket is not the problem, we are overpressurezing the upper chamber & therefore creating the gasket leakage. If you are getting alot of upper door gasket leakage, close down the fan shutter to 25-30% of it's opening, open the secondary air inlet 1.5 to 2 full additional turns. The end result will be gasification with an orange & blue flame, not blazing white light. It will take more effort to start the boiler up & acheive gasification but it is worth it. You'll end up with little longer burn time, the boiler is less likely to idle, fly ash is less likely to collect & plug the boiler breeching, more importantly, there will not be that punget burning cresote smell emiting from the upper door gasket. Any smell that does emit from the upper door is small in comparision & quickly dilutes.
I experimented with my boiler first & the results were favorable. I then experimented with air settings on 4 boilers over the last 48 hours belonging to customers that have been down right brutal over this issue, their feedback back has been very postive. They all pretty much said the same thing, "the smell from the boiler is no longer objectionable".
Bob
In regards to the Eko, many have complained about the burning/cresote smell that emits from the upper chamber door. I have heard this from many of our customers & it has been a hot topic on the wood boiler forums. I have been told that a new gasket should be forthcoming to correct the situation but a little voice in my brain kept saying the gasket is not the problem, we are overpressurezing the upper chamber & therefore creating the gasket leakage. If you are getting alot of upper door gasket leakage, close down the fan shutter to 25-30% of it's opening, open the secondary air inlet 1.5 to 2 full additional turns. The end result will be gasification with an orange & blue flame, not blazing white light. It will take more effort to start the boiler up & acheive gasification but it is worth it. You'll end up with little longer burn time, the boiler is less likely to idle, fly ash is less likely to collect & plug the boiler breeching, more importantly, there will not be that punget burning cresote smell emiting from the upper door gasket. Any smell that does emit from the upper door is small in comparision & quickly dilutes.
I experimented with my boiler first & the results were favorable. I then experimented with air settings on 4 boilers over the last 48 hours belonging to customers that have been down right brutal over this issue, their feedback back has been very postive. They all pretty much said the same thing, "the smell from the boiler is no longer objectionable".
Bob
A couple of customers have tried Mark Brookes silicon fix & it didn't last very long. You can oil the snot out of the gasket but all you end up with is an oil burning smell. I have thought about this from every angle for the last several months & kept returning to air pressure in the upper chamber.
