the exact same thing happened to me this morning. woke to find the stove off, no pellets in the burn pot. i emptied the hopper and checked the top...
i found that some long pellets (pennington) were getting hung up on the way to the top auger, so i just took the hopper plate right out and lowered...
now i know what the tube that came with my ash vac is for...thanks, will do.
oops...didn't realize there was anything on the back (haven't yet taken it out since i've only burned a few days thus far).
is the baffle plate installed backward? i've got mine so that the "tab" or "hook" faces out, toward the front of the stove, and the angled top of...
i'm in newmarket, off grant rd., on the piscassic. got quite a bit of E. hophornbeam out back in the understory, though none very big (9 inches...
my guess: eastern hophornbeam (ironwood).
wouldn't more fuel in the burn pot result in a larger flame? seems fairly straightforward to me, but maybe i'm missing something.
i don't have much of a frame of reference (first season burning), but they're burning pretty good to me. installed the stove sunday, and after about...
i just started burning in a 25-PDV, and i believe the settings should be 6-4-1 (factory default). seems like you're down one on the low fuel feed,...
you could go with a cleanout T off the back of the stove, then up (inside) before going out through the wall. it should let you pick any angle you...
this is quite similar to what i plan on doing with the same stove. adapter, tee, 5' vertical, elbow, 2' through wall, elbow, then 3.5' vertical,...
i was thinking that i'd put it after the boiler (downstream), but plumbed so that i could bypass the boiler entirely, which is what i'd like to do.
this is my plan at the moment as well. i just put in a pellet stove on the first floor, and intend on installing a 50 gallon electric HWH in line...
newbie/first post here... good going on the install. i just built my hearth pad for the same stove (summers 2200 sq/ft from lowes) this weekend....
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