I know we have talked about burning pellets in the MT Vernon on the Sunflower setting and how much more heat this puts out. It is amazing. I had the stove set to softwood today and it was keeping the house (12yr old cape 1700sqft) between 66 and 68. I had it set on flame height of +5 and High heat output. With the same settings but set on sunflower the house rose to 71 before I started cutting back the flame height and heat output. It is about 8 outside today.
The one draw back is the amount of pellets this consumes. This leads me to my first question.
1) Is there anyone else burning on Sunflower and if so what flame height do you run on?
2) My second concern in doing this is over heating the stove. Should I be concerned about this?
3) Lastly, I am concerned about the flame height (this kind of goes along with over heating the stove), it seems to be really large on this setting no matter what I cut the flame height setting back to. Currently I have cut it back to +2 and have it set on medium high on manual.
The one draw back is the amount of pellets this consumes. This leads me to my first question.
1) Is there anyone else burning on Sunflower and if so what flame height do you run on?
2) My second concern in doing this is over heating the stove. Should I be concerned about this?
3) Lastly, I am concerned about the flame height (this kind of goes along with over heating the stove), it seems to be really large on this setting no matter what I cut the flame height setting back to. Currently I have cut it back to +2 and have it set on medium high on manual.
