I have a Lopi Yankee Bay, just installed in Nov 09. Stove works great, but...
1.) On 3 occasions I've come down in the morning to find the inside of the stove all black with fine black ash. The stuff cleans right off of everything, but I don't know what causes it. When I go to bed I've got a good fire with a dancing flame, but when I come down I've got a lazy flame and black.
2.) Yesterday, the stove went out for some (unknown) reason. Pellets were piling up in the firebox. I stopped the stove, cleaned the firebox, and restarted the stove (manual start). The start took much longer than usual, and while it was starting a ton of smoke (also much more than usual) came out of the pile of pellets. Finally it started and things worked great.
I also noticed that in the last few days there has been something that sits in the ashbox and issues a thin column of smoke. I assume this is a pellet that was ejected from the firebox and is smoldering.
Ideas?
Thanks.
--glen
1.) On 3 occasions I've come down in the morning to find the inside of the stove all black with fine black ash. The stuff cleans right off of everything, but I don't know what causes it. When I go to bed I've got a good fire with a dancing flame, but when I come down I've got a lazy flame and black.
2.) Yesterday, the stove went out for some (unknown) reason. Pellets were piling up in the firebox. I stopped the stove, cleaned the firebox, and restarted the stove (manual start). The start took much longer than usual, and while it was starting a ton of smoke (also much more than usual) came out of the pile of pellets. Finally it started and things worked great.
I also noticed that in the last few days there has been something that sits in the ashbox and issues a thin column of smoke. I assume this is a pellet that was ejected from the firebox and is smoldering.
Ideas?
Thanks.
--glen