HOW LONG DOES A BAG OF PELLETS LAST

On average how long do you get from a bag of pellets. I know there are a lot of variables. Its 30 degrees outside and i put a new bag in this morning at 6 am and have had it on all day still have some left i think i will get about 15 hours out of 1 bag? the house is toasty warm

Glad to see your toasty on Long Island after your history with these two storms!! That sounds about right...if I run my stove on 2 or 3, highest is 5, I get about 16-18 hrs burn time

Far too many variables. Which stove; what setting; which pellets; thermostat or not;

So many things. In the early fall with my 25PDV on low, with the bottom buttons set at 3-1-1, thermostat off, I generally get between 24 to 28 hrs out of a bag.

In the heart of the winter, with the thermostat set at 69, I will average a bag and a half a day. But even then, the stove is usually cycling between high and low, so I am sure that it could chew through them faster.

I've been using North American pellets which are in my opinion are not great quality.

--Kofkorn

If I keep it on low 16-18 hrs.....in the heart if winter I use around 2 bags a day

I average about 12 hours a bag on medium heat setting(or aprox. 4 pounds per hour). Less fuel in the lower heat settings and more if I go higher. There are many variables with pellets(size/density) and stove feed rates(pounds per hour) that effect how long they last.

15 hrs. per bag doesn't sound extreme.

The last few days I have burned 1 bag every 24 hours running room temp auto with the rooms maintained between 68 and 71. I have been burning MWP blend .

thanks for the response i know there are to many variables to list and every stove is different. i dont think ill ever get 24 hours out of a bag. thanks again

20 - 1000 years

And your house is always 80 in all rooms ....

You must be burning those unobtainium pellets, I have a ton of them around here somewhere, wait I'll get my radiation detection gear and find them.

The problem with unobtanium pellets is the stove doesn't burn them, they burn the stove.

Using Timberheats from Lowes. On setting 2/5 it burns 1 bag every 12 hours. If I crank it up to 3, it drops to around 8 hours. So, 2 or 3 bags per day depending on the setting I'm using. I haven't tried a lot of brands yet, so I can't speak to feed rates from different size pellets really.

That explains the glowing puddle in the corner. My convection blower must have failed.

I just tried a bag of Timber Heat....they feed faster than the average pellet.

Really? That's interesting to hear. I'm on my last 2 or 3 bags, so I look forward to trying some of the other 6 brands I bought for this year. This is my first year, so I don't have anything to compare against yet.

Some of my co-workers told me I was crazy for buying 6 tons, but if I eat 3 bags a day I'm going to need them all!!

I seem to go through almost a bag a day, temp set at room temp 70 keep the place about 70 over all. I do for now shut it off in the morning
I am gone for about 10 hours or so each day and the temp is down to 60 when I get home, I will leave it on all day as the weather gets colder and stays colder.

For a reference most brands my stove uses 2.3-2.5 lbs/hr when running on low. The Timber Heat fed at 2.9

you will in August

When my Enviro Evolution was working ( got to get it fixed) on number 1 or 2 settings it would run 26 hours to 24 hours with outside temp of around 30 degrees using Cubex hardwood pellets, keep the house at 70 to 72. On 4 very seldom would I use number 5 setting with outside temp at 0 or below it would use a bag about every 12 hours. keep house around 68, maybe 66 at far end of house. Temps between below 0 and 32 it would vary if using number 3 setting, somewhere around 18 hours. What suprise me was the unfinnished basement would not get down below 40 degrees, maybe 38 if wind was blowing.

I might not be a good comparsion because I have a pellet furnace, not a pellet stove and from what everyone is saying I am not sure they line up. But in the fall and early spring I can get 1 bag to last 24 hours, especially with my smartstat function that turns the furnace off after 1 hour of no call for heat. In January/Feb. I can run up to 3 bags a day, but It depends on the heat setting I run. Both my wife and daughter are cold blooded and complain if the house isnt 80 degrees all the time, but I am training them to live in 70. However, i have the heat setting set up a few notches higher than i really have to, to allow the temperature rise to catch up faster...if that makes sense.

Long story short, I am probably wasting some pellets in the cold cold months, but i dont have to listen to anyone complain...which is a sweet trade off for me.

Shortest burn the fastest.

Just depends on your heat demand.

Mine is about a 40# to 60# a day

We start about mid sep. and end around Memorial Day with some minor adjustments. Usually burn about 5 tons so that is 250 bags for 255 days. So a bag a day. The year before last, we burned 6 tons. Jan and feb are usually 2 bag days I have a couple tons of soft pellets to try during those months. Just want to see if we get a little more heat from them.

I keep my place cooler than most.... its 66 during peak living, and 62 at night and during the business day when no one is home.
I use about a bag a day. 1.2-1.5 bags on those RELALY cold nights.

I also have limited window treatments. I need to get on that. I know i lose a ton of heat through wide open slider doors, and windows with no blinds or anythin on them.

I have had some of my Somersets for three years now, still doing fine I think as long as they are dry they will last forever.............................
O.K. on medium one bag a day, high two bags a day

A bag last me between 36 and 40 hours

I am wondering what will happen if the stove runs out of pellets? Will it simply shutdown with an error code or would I be risking damaging it? I have a Mt Vernon AE--1st year and it is running on Sunflower seed mode, HIGH (awesome heat). I top it off before going to bed, but it is is super cold it may run all night. Oh as for pellets I am using Power Pellets.