Can anyone describe what the Englander pellet stove heat exchanger looks like OR know where I can find a diagram of it? My interest is purely out of curiosity since it differs so much from others I`ve seen.
Englander heat exchanger ?
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Gio said:
Check this link out for flow through an Englander 25pdvc exchanger with bottom feed auger.
https://www.hearth.com/econtent/index.php?ACT=24&fid=22&aid=20160_RBO9NAD6AGtFjURLMYBo&board_id=1
Haven't seen anything like this on their top feed models however the Englander site has stove manuals you can download if you are interested in a particular model. http://www.englandsstoveworks.com/manuals.html
HD41 said:
OK, thanks. What I see is the orange outline being the heat exchange envelope. No tubes or accordian type exchanger. It would account for why the stove body gets so much hotter than my Harman.
Is this correct?
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This is my third season with the stove with no problems. I don't have any way of knowing its efficiency but it is a pretty simple and effective arrangement. The impingement plate lifts out and the exchanger is fairly easy to clean with a small diameter hose connected to a shop vac. I don't find it necessary to clean this area very often, I don't get any rapid accumulation of ash affecting burning. I clean exchanger every few weeks burning Lignetics or Somerset pellets. May be different depending on quality of pellets, seems like it does accumulate more ash with low burning.Gio said:
I have seen the diagram several times and understand the concept, but I can't visualize it on my stove. I am curious as to where those passages go and how they work and if they can be cleaned. I get a fluffy ash build up all over, but it lessens as it moves through the stove. So far good luck with my Englander PDVC-25. I would like to see a temp guage on it somewhere so users can talk about something and have it be accurate - so many variables in trying to measure temps.
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