Yeah so my wife wakes me up at 1am says "hey your stove is beeping and why is it 76 degrees in here?"
Hmmm so I get up to check, after I say a few choice words, seems that the stove wasn't beeping but the SkyTech remote receiver was. You know that little black box that sits near your stove. So reading the instructions at 1am was not fun, but I found out that there is a THERMO- SAFETY feature built into this little device when the RECEIVER is operating where ambient temperatures exceed 130 F degrees it beeps and beeps, forever. Hmm interesting so this little box on the hearth 8 inches to the side of the stove is trying to tell me that its internal temp is over 130? really?
The rest of the story goes like this, it was about 9pm last night and I though it was a little chilly in the house about 68 or so, so I bumped the SkyTech thermostat up to 70, usually its set on 69. I also decided to bump the stove from heat setting 3 to 4, just seeing what the thing can do really it's still a little new to me. Anyway at setting 4 this thing can crank some serious heat! Did I mention that it's a blazing fire? Wow, so when I went to bed the Skytech thermostat said 70, I thought hmm 2 degree over shoot, it will turn off in an hour or so. Well at heat setting 4 I guess even though the Thermostat shut off, the stove was still dumping heat trying to finish its cycle to shut off. Actually when she woke me up at 1am it was still blowing hot air even though there was no fire.
And so this morning she wasn't happy, said she doesn't like to have the house at 76 when she's trying to sleep, says our HHO system used to drop back at night. So she then tells me that its stupid to burn pellets in the middle of the night when you don't need too. Okay so maybe valid points, but how can I admit that. hahaha
So what do I do? This GCI60 has a long shutdown cycle, I suppose I need to factor that into the temperature setting and figure that its going to climb another x degrees by the time the cycle ends. Anyone have any insight or ideas on what the best settings are?
Sleepless night in Connecticut
Hmmm so I get up to check, after I say a few choice words, seems that the stove wasn't beeping but the SkyTech remote receiver was. You know that little black box that sits near your stove. So reading the instructions at 1am was not fun, but I found out that there is a THERMO- SAFETY feature built into this little device when the RECEIVER is operating where ambient temperatures exceed 130 F degrees it beeps and beeps, forever. Hmm interesting so this little box on the hearth 8 inches to the side of the stove is trying to tell me that its internal temp is over 130? really?
The rest of the story goes like this, it was about 9pm last night and I though it was a little chilly in the house about 68 or so, so I bumped the SkyTech thermostat up to 70, usually its set on 69. I also decided to bump the stove from heat setting 3 to 4, just seeing what the thing can do really it's still a little new to me. Anyway at setting 4 this thing can crank some serious heat! Did I mention that it's a blazing fire? Wow, so when I went to bed the Skytech thermostat said 70, I thought hmm 2 degree over shoot, it will turn off in an hour or so. Well at heat setting 4 I guess even though the Thermostat shut off, the stove was still dumping heat trying to finish its cycle to shut off. Actually when she woke me up at 1am it was still blowing hot air even though there was no fire.
And so this morning she wasn't happy, said she doesn't like to have the house at 76 when she's trying to sleep, says our HHO system used to drop back at night. So she then tells me that its stupid to burn pellets in the middle of the night when you don't need too. Okay so maybe valid points, but how can I admit that. hahaha
So what do I do? This GCI60 has a long shutdown cycle, I suppose I need to factor that into the temperature setting and figure that its going to climb another x degrees by the time the cycle ends. Anyone have any insight or ideas on what the best settings are?
Sleepless night in Connecticut
