I usually run my 25-pdv at low heat/blower speeds such as 1-2, 2-4 and the last couple nights at 3-6.
The bottom 3 buttons I keep them at 4-6-1
The bottom 3 buttons I keep them at 4-6-1
DeriusT said:....I love the thing, just having trouble with that flame........The problem is that the fire is seeming to be more concentrated around the auger than last years burn......And the higher I turn the second bottom button, the smaller the flame. The lower the air, the more fierce, and hot the flame, nearly looking like a bonfire!......
geek said:mac, have you tried different setting, for example 4-6-1, or those numbers only apply to the englander model you have.
I think I tried 1-4-1 on my 25-pdv and for whatever reason I don't remember I went back to 4-6-1
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DeriusT said:Still having flame issues, and have tried lower air. The flame is constantly a bonfire, reaching the top of the stove regardless of air setting.
billybono said:these settings only have an effect if your running the stove on 1 or 2 ......... on 3 and above these dont get used
DeriusT said:.....I may have to put an upward or downward facing elbow on my air intake pipe...
DeriusT said:.....I was under the impression that englander employees and servicemen frequented this site?
mine does the same thing. As for your worries I also was worried and called Englander they said that as long as your hopper gasket and all gaskets are tight and there is no air going into the box it is impossible to catch the hopper on fire it would die out. I would like to add that I think it is ALMOST impossible.DeriusT said:Any further luck on info about those mysterious englander settings?
Still having flame issues, and have tried lower air. The flame is constantly a bonfire, reaching the top of the stove regardless of air setting.
i have been playing around with this the last couple days. i unplugged the stove and plugged it back in holding both up and down arrows for the blower setting when i release the arrows stove displayed a "d" in the heat range window. so i changed it to c with the heat range down arrow. i figure i can change it back if something goes wrong.here is what i found. on c my stove burns very hot i burned it that way for 2 days then changed it to b. on b the igniter didn't even come on to light the fire. so i tried a. a lit the fire but didn"t produce much heat the pellets were barely being fed into the burnpot on heat range 7. i think this setting may be to set the control up for different model stoves. maybe someone else on here can check to see what letter comes up when you plug the stove in holding down the blower arrows to see if it changes with models or not
macman said:billybono said:these settings only have an effect if your running the stove on 1 or 2 ......... on 3 and above these dont get used
Billy, I think he's referring to another set of "mystery" settings that Derius talked about in post #18 of this thread, not the lower 3 buttons.
DeriusT said:My stove did not default to d, and neither did my buds. I believe ours defaulted to a or something. I changed it to d on the recommendation of an englander tech some years ago, then forgot about it until I got on this board and saw people play...er..uhm...testing their settings, ahem....and decided to try to remember what those other settings meant, as I had seen no one yet mention them.
If I remember right, (and thats a big if considering my memory skills) the tech told me that setting had something to do with overall room size or some such. I PM'ed the lead tech for englander that hangs out on the forum as MacMan suggested, but have not gotten a reply yet. I asked him to kindly post his knowlege about it in this thread, so we wait....
I messed with the settings a bit, but did not notice so drastic a set of changes as the other user mentioned. (my stove although a 25-PDV, predates the igniters so I don't have that function)
PS. As a side note, I am burning Somerset Premium Hardwood Pellets. This brand burned great last year, but this year so far, a lot of pellets burning black but not to grey ash, and a lot of sticking together in a huge solid mass in the burnpot. Is this what you all refer to as clunkers? The same brand burnt much better last season. They are what the local TSC carries.