To anyone with the Harman XXV, I am curious to know how many bags of pellets a day your stove burns.
We have had our stove since the middle of November 2011 and it's been running almost nonstop with the brutal winter we've had this year. We are burning a bag of pellets (Lignetics) every 10-11 hours with an average stove temperature setting of 5 or 76 degrees. The house is 2,700 sq. feet. I have tried:
- Fiddling around with the feed rate (set as low as 2 and a high as 5, settling with 4 for most of the season).
- Switching to the room temperature setting but the stove seemed to burn even more pellets since it would never get to the actual room temp (we have 16 foot cathedral above the stove which I suspect traps some heat even with a ceiling fan running in reverse).
- Daily burn pot scrapes and more frequent cleaning (now I clean it throughly after 25 bags since it burns MUCH hotter when clean).
I know this stove is capable of producing up to 50,000 BTU but I didn't expect to burn over a ton of pellets per month and we'll have burned just about 5 tons by the end of March! Is this normal? The dealer said it could burn a bag as long as 18 hours but I have yet to see that. We had a Whitfield Advantage at our previous house (1,400 sq. ft.) and at the absolute most, it would burn a bag and a half over 24 hours. Two tons was plenty for the winter.
We love the XXV and it keeps the main living areas of our house nice and toasty at about 70 degrees. Thankfully it has even reduced our propane bill by about 2/3 which was our main reason for buying the stove.
Anyway, just curious to hear what the average XXV pellet consumption out there is for piece of mind. Thanks!
We have had our stove since the middle of November 2011 and it's been running almost nonstop with the brutal winter we've had this year. We are burning a bag of pellets (Lignetics) every 10-11 hours with an average stove temperature setting of 5 or 76 degrees. The house is 2,700 sq. feet. I have tried:
- Fiddling around with the feed rate (set as low as 2 and a high as 5, settling with 4 for most of the season).
- Switching to the room temperature setting but the stove seemed to burn even more pellets since it would never get to the actual room temp (we have 16 foot cathedral above the stove which I suspect traps some heat even with a ceiling fan running in reverse).
- Daily burn pot scrapes and more frequent cleaning (now I clean it throughly after 25 bags since it burns MUCH hotter when clean).
I know this stove is capable of producing up to 50,000 BTU but I didn't expect to burn over a ton of pellets per month and we'll have burned just about 5 tons by the end of March! Is this normal? The dealer said it could burn a bag as long as 18 hours but I have yet to see that. We had a Whitfield Advantage at our previous house (1,400 sq. ft.) and at the absolute most, it would burn a bag and a half over 24 hours. Two tons was plenty for the winter.
We love the XXV and it keeps the main living areas of our house nice and toasty at about 70 degrees. Thankfully it has even reduced our propane bill by about 2/3 which was our main reason for buying the stove.
Anyway, just curious to hear what the average XXV pellet consumption out there is for piece of mind. Thanks!