Pleasantly surprised by Window Pellet Stove/Heater Operating PICS

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LIpelletpig

Feeling the Heat
Jun 26, 2008
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Long Island, NY
OK...It's a very interesting concept. As I've read on the forum and the idea of a pellet stove in the window I had my doubts. I happen to be passing by my pellet distributor here on Long Island and he had the unit set-up outside in front of the store running. I had to stop and take a look. I looked at this unit from every angle and felt all the parts that you would assume that would be hot and they were not. I put my hand over the exhaust area and felt a good amount of heat but nothing I would be concerned with if the unit was put in the window or wall. It has an intake in the rear of the unit for outside air. In the front bottom left corner it has the control panel that is relatively simple to understand. It has a low pressure switch light that alerts you if the hopper is open or the door is not closed properly and the unit stops feeding pellets. It has a basic heating control, I think it's 5 settings of High to Low for the amount of heat it's outputting. The fan on the unit is very quiet and blows a comfortable amount of heat. The front of the unit is not hot and can be touched without burning yourself. The hopper holds 30 Lb. of pellets enough for an overnight or day operation. I really never gave this unit a thought and thought the concept was ridiculous. But after further evaluation I think its pretty good. I wouldn't personally install the unit in a window. It is heavy, not sure on exact weight but as a wall install with proper framing it wouldn't be a problem. In some cases the unit can be portable if need be. Now, I'm not in the market for a window unit or another pellet stove but I thought I would share my thoughts to the group as I had some reservations on this one.
 

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I picked one up this fall and was surprised by the heat being put out by it. I got some picks of it running I'll post when I get home.
 
Actually, I think I am able to pull it up here

The temps I took on this were from an IR thermometer and could be off

This was written about a month ago when I was doing a pre-burn outside. I used dry creek pellets.


Here is the hardware
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The only thing I put on the stove was the exhaust. It had an opening on the bottom that vented down and away from the stove

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Top is plastic front is plastic and the hopper was plastic. Despite this it seemed pretty solid

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It took about two and a half minutes from pressing on to burn and there was some smoke from the exhaust for about 17 seconds. Then it cleared right out

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I then ran it for an hour..this unit kicks out some heat for its size

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quick measurements from a laser thermometer It was 80 degrees outside at the time (there was some smoke with an odor at the front of the unitfor about 5 minutes after warm up but went away)

Side 77 right side 101 (in sun)
Exhaust 86

5 min in

Front blower 141 on low
Exhaust 152
Glass 113
Side 88 right side got to 136
Bottom 88

Switch to high

30 minutes in

Front blower 169
Glass 146
Top 95
Side 94
Exhaust 230
Broiling pan under exhaust 101
Bottom 87
Heat exchanger 421

Back to low after 10 min on high

I turned it off at half hour


After it cooled down I restarted it and ran it again for a half hour with similar number(no smoke on the front area this time as it seemed to have burned off all chemicals)
 
Thank You for the information and pictures. Both of you have educated me a bit on these units. I am not in the market for one but have been very curious about them. It will be interesting to see if they take off.
 
That would be quite interesting for a further away bedroom or other room not usullay used or needed very hot - what was the price on these units ? Anything reasonable ? Thanks for the info, I had not seen these before.
 
Riddle Master Morgon said:
That would be quite interesting for a further away bedroom or other room not usullay used or needed very hot - what was the price on these units ? Anything reasonable ? Thanks for the info, I had not seen these before.

They retail around $1500-$1700, but I was able to get mine much cheaper. I plan on using it in the upstairs to keep the bedrooms toasty (this will not be used in a bedroom)
 
Please keep us posted on how this works out as we get on into the season. I was interested when they first showed up last year, but kinda waiting for somebody else to be the guinea pellet pig.
 
Where on Long Island did you see this??

Bx
 
I'll wait and watch to see how it goes. But there were some owners last season that were not pleased with this unit and its performance.

Interesting concept, But to new for me to bite!
 
I'm into my second season with one of these stoves and I've been happy so far. I found that there was one area that needs to be cleaned that the manual didn't mention, there are a series of holes in the top of the fire box that allow the exhaust gasses to be drawn through the heat exchanger. I haven't found any easy way to get to this area to do a truly good cleaning. What I've done is, cut a piece out of a metal cloths hanger and bent it so that I can slide it up into the holes and push as much ash as I can to the sides where it'll drop down to the clean out. I do it every couple of bags and that seems to keep the stove happy.
 
Copiage, Long Island
 
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