Harman Users: Switching between Stove & Room Temp.

THE ROOSTER said:

Does anyone switch between the two once the stove is burning??? I normally burn in stove temp but was wondering about switching it to room temp and wondered if I needed to shut the stove down or just switch it while it was burning???

My stove does not burn near as hot on stove temp as it does on room temp, even when the dials are maxed out, so on a really cold night I am thinking about switching it to room temp and wondered the best way to do this...

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THE ROOSTER said:

My stove does not burn near as hot on stove temp as it does on room temp, even when the dials are maxed out, so on a really cold night I am thinking about switching it to room temp and wondered the best way to do this...

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poconoman said:

THE ROOSTER said:

My stove does not burn near as hot on stove temp as it does on room temp, even when the dials are maxed out, so on a really cold night I am thinking about switching it to room temp and wondered the best way to do this...

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Hmmmm.....on my PC45, it's WAY hotter on Stove temp. On Room temp, my wife starts to get the chills. On Stove, it works much better for me.

What model do you have?

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Bigjim13 said:

poconoman said:

THE ROOSTER said:

My stove does not burn near as hot on stove temp as it does on room temp, even when the dials are maxed out, so on a really cold night I am thinking about switching it to room temp and wondered the best way to do this...

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Hmmmm.....on my PC45, it's WAY hotter on Stove temp. On Room temp, my wife starts to get the chills. On Stove, it works much better for me.

What model do you have?

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WIth mine, the P61A, I don't know if the air coming out of the blower is hotter or not. I think it feels hotters in stove temp because it never cycles down, its going at a constant temp. Here is an example, yesterday with temp in the upper 30's i set the stove on Stove temp at about 2.5 on the dial. The room the stove was in quickly went from 65 to 68 to 71 and up to 77. It felt HOT in that room but it was 77 degrees. On room temp at the same setting it would have never gotten that warm in the room, it would have cycled down before that but at the same time it wouldn't have gotten much warm air to the rest of the house either.

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anka said:

always use stove temp, but its only been installed a week... my understanding is that it burns the same amount of pellets on any setting, due to the draft being the same, and the only control over the amount burned is the feed rate.

on room temp it is trying to adjust to the immediate surroundings... maybe good if you have alot of airflow to other parts of the house, or dislike the stove room to be hot.

keeping it on stove temp, and keeping the fan on high, seems to get the most efficient heat out of the lowest pellet feed, granted its louder.

so I cycle (toggle) between high and low fan, depending on my need for heat, and burn one bag in about 14-15 hours, then let the furnace go on at night/early morning when the temps drop below 55 indoors...

fan is usually on low, and set between high and low on the dial...furnace stays off unless temps drop below the teens..feed rate always at 3, barefoot hardwood.

Anka

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Markcas123 said:

Putting the stove in manual, and stove temp mode uses significantly less electricity.

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