Background
The pellets;
Last winter I bought four bags of Indeck pellets from Menards to try along with four bags of Pennywise. That night I filled the hopper of the window stove with the Indecks and went to bed. Bad Idea, I woke up the next morning to a cold house and the stove in fail safe mode, room blower off, combustion blower on and all kinds of pretty flashing lights on the control panel. The dinky little firebox, not the burn pot but the whole stinking firebox, was half full of partially burnt smoldering pellets. I cleaned up the mess and gave the stove a deep cleaning to make sure I hadn't missed any thing in the previous days cleaning and relit the stove. After about an hour the burn pot was getting choked with partially burned pellets, so I shut it down and cleaned it again and vacuumed the pellets out of the hopper and refilled with the Pennywise pellets and relit the stove. The little window stove was much happier with the Pennywise. I got rid of all but one bag of the Indeck by mixing them a little bit at a time with the Pennywise the rest of the season.
The PAH;
I bought the PAH, as a factory second, from Andy at AMFM Energy (great to do business with). Installed 02/10/12, corner install. Venting, stove adapter to cleanout T, up 3ft, 90* out 2 ft and the termination cap. OAK installed with about 1 ft rise to clear the stupid telephone equipment hanging in the outside of the house. Controlled with a Lux DMH110. Since this winter has been so mild I've been runing the stove in of/off during the day and switching to hi/low at night. The stove runs in low 90+% of the time so I bumped the LBA up to 5 to reduce the sooting a bit.
The game begins;
Last evening I shut the stove down for a quick cleaning and to switch to hi/low for the night. There was still about 10 pounds of Heartland pellets left in the hopper so I decided to see what the PAH thinks of that last bag of Indecks. I kept an eye on the stove all evening and everything seemed to be going ok so I went to bed. I got up this morning and glanced at the Tstat on my way to the coffee pot, 2* above the set point. Normal for a mild night with the stove in hi/low, the stove most likely never came off of low all night. I get to the living room and look at the stove, the glass looks about right for an all night low burn. The flame looked ok, which is suprising considering what I saw when I peeked into the burn pot (pic attached). :bug: I'm glad there's only thrity pounds of these left.
Will adding more LBA help to burn this crap up? If so, since I'm already at 5, how much more do you think it will take?
The pellets;
Last winter I bought four bags of Indeck pellets from Menards to try along with four bags of Pennywise. That night I filled the hopper of the window stove with the Indecks and went to bed. Bad Idea, I woke up the next morning to a cold house and the stove in fail safe mode, room blower off, combustion blower on and all kinds of pretty flashing lights on the control panel. The dinky little firebox, not the burn pot but the whole stinking firebox, was half full of partially burnt smoldering pellets. I cleaned up the mess and gave the stove a deep cleaning to make sure I hadn't missed any thing in the previous days cleaning and relit the stove. After about an hour the burn pot was getting choked with partially burned pellets, so I shut it down and cleaned it again and vacuumed the pellets out of the hopper and refilled with the Pennywise pellets and relit the stove. The little window stove was much happier with the Pennywise. I got rid of all but one bag of the Indeck by mixing them a little bit at a time with the Pennywise the rest of the season.
The PAH;
I bought the PAH, as a factory second, from Andy at AMFM Energy (great to do business with). Installed 02/10/12, corner install. Venting, stove adapter to cleanout T, up 3ft, 90* out 2 ft and the termination cap. OAK installed with about 1 ft rise to clear the stupid telephone equipment hanging in the outside of the house. Controlled with a Lux DMH110. Since this winter has been so mild I've been runing the stove in of/off during the day and switching to hi/low at night. The stove runs in low 90+% of the time so I bumped the LBA up to 5 to reduce the sooting a bit.
The game begins;
Last evening I shut the stove down for a quick cleaning and to switch to hi/low for the night. There was still about 10 pounds of Heartland pellets left in the hopper so I decided to see what the PAH thinks of that last bag of Indecks. I kept an eye on the stove all evening and everything seemed to be going ok so I went to bed. I got up this morning and glanced at the Tstat on my way to the coffee pot, 2* above the set point. Normal for a mild night with the stove in hi/low, the stove most likely never came off of low all night. I get to the living room and look at the stove, the glass looks about right for an all night low burn. The flame looked ok, which is suprising considering what I saw when I peeked into the burn pot (pic attached). :bug: I'm glad there's only thrity pounds of these left.
Will adding more LBA help to burn this crap up? If so, since I'm already at 5, how much more do you think it will take?
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