How Are Your Pellet Boilers Working?

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Trout

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Dec 9, 2013
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Southern MaineAxe
Cold and windy last night, -12 degrees last night and very windy. I woke up with our house temp 4 degrees (64), lower than than our 68 set temp. My Pellergy Alpha is set to the lower setting of 210, water temp set to 155 and Alpha circulater on 1 and was certainly not keeping up. I started our Stanley cook stove, Jotul 602 box stove and increased my boiler water temp to 165 and the circulater to 2. Within a couple of hours I was up to 68 and the wife is happy. Boy, I sure wish I had a newer, smaller and tighter house, but with the adjustments, the Pellergy came through!
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Coming back from setback is harder. I've been thinking about bypassing the tank early in the cycle so that hot water is going to the zones quicker. It would be nice if outdoor reset was used somehow to ;automate things.
 
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