Weekly Harman P68 cleaning

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capecod

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Feb 22, 2008
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Been at this a year. This is what I do...WEEKLY:

1) brush/vacuum heat exchangers, walls
2) remove bricks to vacuum
3) scrape/ vacuum burn pot, then use a nail to unclog burn holes
4)vacuum ignitor area
5) remove ash pan and brush "lower walls"
6) brush /vacuum combustion fan
7) clean window

Is there anything else I should be doing in the weekly cleaning?

Thanks,
Marina
 
YES!!! Let your stove run for a month and clean it then. There is no reason to clean it weekly like you have been doing. Let it GO!! Do that cleaning after a month or two.
 
Really? I do everything Marina does usually once a week. I don't let it go any longer than 2 weeks between cleaning, especially if weather outside is really cold. It takes about three to four hours for stove to cool down and by that time, the rooms are cooling down fast. I guess I'm a bit anal but everything I've read so far, here and other places, is that one should do this cleaning once a week.
 
Dayum. Scrape the burn pot a coupla times a week & maybe scrape the
accordion heat exchanger ONCE a week.
Do all that other stuff when you empty the ash pan...ONCE a TON.
 
DAKSY said:
Dayum. Scrape the burn pot a coupla times a week & maybe scrape the
accordion heat exchanger ONCE a week.
Do all that other stuff when you empty the ash pan...ONCE a TON.
i agree with you daksy, i was once a week sweeping the heat exchanger and a scrape on the burn pot maybe 2x a week......since i been burning the okies i go maybe 10 days before i sweep the exchanger...and do the other stuff after a ton
 
hmmmmm, well I guess that's OK. I know that a dirty accordion heat exchanger can decrease the heat output by a fair amount...I read somewhere that 1/16" of ash on the exchanger can decrease the heat transfer by as much as 15-18%...
 
I'm running my P68 24/7 ,burning okanagans, and I find I start to loose heat after three or four days. It's not much, maybe 4 to 8 degrees, but brushing the ash off the heat exchangers( and scraping the burn pot) brings the temp right back up. I'm running in stove temp mode at a constant setting, with a digital thermometer fixed in place, so it's easy to see the difference. At least in my case, cleaning more often than not helps.
JB
 
Your regimen sounds good and is what I do. Sometimes I clean my stove if I'm bored...I must be strange. The only thing I dont do, is pull out the combustion blower once a week. From what I understand that is a once a ton cleaning and again at the season end.
 
capecod said:
Been at this a year. This is what I do...WEEKLY:

1) brush/vacuum heat exchangers, walls
2) remove bricks to vacuum
3) scrape/ vacuum burn pot, then use a nail to unclog burn holes
4)vacuum ignitor area
5) remove ash pan and brush "lower walls"
6) brush /vacuum combustion fan
7) clean window

Is there anything else I should be doing in the weekly cleaning?

Thanks,
Marina

I don't know if you need to do it weekly, but clean the ESP sensor and vac out the exhaust port. I use an extension on my vac hose and run it all the way through the exhaust port and tap on the stove pipe to suck up any loose stuff.
 
It definitely depends on the quality of the pellets you're burning. With Barefoots I'd go a month without touching the stove except for filling it up, and only then because I figured I should do it. With this year's APC pellets I chip the carbon out of the burnpot daily, remove ash weekly and do a through cleaning (ash pan, exhaust fan and ESP) monthly.
 
rap69ri said:
It definitely depends on the quality of the pellets you're burning. With Barefoots I'd go a month without touching the stove except for filling it up, and only then because I figured I should do it. With this year's APC pellets I chip the carbon out of the burnpot daily, remove ash weekly and do a through cleaning (ash pan, exhaust fan and ESP) monthly.

Well put. When I burned the greene Teams, I did a complete cleaning every week or 2. With the Okies in, I can easily go a month or more before a deep cleaning(ash pan, exhaust fan, ESP and vent pipe). If I happen to come home from work to a cold stove from no pellets, I will take advantage and just clean the glass and quick brush/vac of the firebox-quick 5-10 minute job at most.
 
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