SmokeyTheBear said:
mark d fellows said:
SmokeyTheBear said:
mark d fellows said:
Pellet-King said:
Penningtons dirty too, overnight burn on #2 glass clouded over, Unless i burn on #3 glass is crap in a 1/2 day anyway.
Sounds like you need more air, my friend has a Breckwell P23 and he's always fooling with the damper on a daily basis, i never move my "rod"
With number 2, and 3 I am assuming that is your pellet feed rate, am I correct?
So on your stove, is 2 a lower feed rate than 3, as it would be on my stove?
Mark more than the feed rate varies on Pellet-Kings stove when he changes his setting from 2 to 3.
I know, or at least I got that impression. The only thing I can play with is the pellet feed. Right after posting that, I though he might be talking about some combustion motor speed or something.
I wish I had that. I would just crank up the oxygen by turning up the combustion motor for a leaner burn.
Mark
Your stove has a maximum feed rate setting after that the sensor (ESP) in the exhaust path along with the control board determines how to handle the combustion process.
Your stove also has a set of adjustments that can be used to properly set the combustion process for differences in voltage and altitude, etc ....
Your stove may actually need a bit of minor adjustments, especially if it was self installed or if installed at a different location sold and moved.
Sorry didn't mean to be a know it all. I have read as much as I could about the stove before I bought it and did ask the installer if they set the draft setting after installing like the manual said, and they said no, because they had found over the years that it was never a problem.
So, even though they installed it, they did not set the the draft setting as a function of voltage. However, I do have a good 120 volts out of the wall, so hopefully, that is the same as the factory from which it was built.
If I had the tools, I might tinker with it, but since it burns clean with all other pellets, I am pretty sure it is the pellets, not the draft setting that is causing a dirty burn.
I was however curios as to the feed rate actually doing anything in Room Temp mode. I couldn't figure how that would come into play unless it is a feed auger SPEED setting, instead of just a feed auger TIMING setting.
I didn't know which it was.
perhaps if I set the stove in STOVE TEMP mode, I would have more control, but I will just wait until the pellets are gone. After this hopper, I don't plan on burning them until the middle of the winter, and then after they are gone, I will switch to the other ton of Penningtons.
If you look at my title, you can see I have tried a lot of different brands of pellets.
I have burned hardwood, softwood, and a mix. The Cleanfire's are one of the three worst pellets I have burned.
I have tried to list the pellets in my signature according to rating of best to worst.
Thanks for the help, and I know that people (including myself) just can't help but try to offer solutions and help, but I am just being a whiner right now.
Thanks for the info!
Mark