Hello to all, I am a new pellet stove owner and have been reading all I can from everyone here before I ask questions that have been discussed before. I purchased a long out of production (but brand new) 49-SHC22 multifuel stove last year and installed it last month. in our 1800 sq foot single story home.
I called Englander tech before buying this stove just to make sure parts are still available, and they were so I based my purchase on that fact and that I paid less than half the cost of a new stove. The tech also recommended leaving this stove in the corn mode even though I will be burning wood pellets.
Last week I fired it for the first time when overnight temps were dropping into the 20s and everything went great except for needing to turn off the stirrer until the fire was blazing so it wouldn't smother it out.
The stove worked fantastic in corn mode and actually put out so much heat during the 3 hour break-in on setting 5 that I had to turn it down at hour 2 to setting 3 just to keep myself from burning up. This was using a bag of Lignetics brand pellets I bought from Tractor Supply @ $5.49.
The second bag of pellets I got from Lowes were Greentree brand @ $4.98. These pellets put out much more heat than Lignetics so I only needed to run the stove on setting 1 most of the time. I was also told that Home Depots Heatrs brand pellets came from the same plant as the Greentree so I picked up a bag to test and they were just as good but only cost $3.98.
Looks like at the lower stove settings, 1-3, I should get about 24-28 hours of burning per bag. So I guess my only question is should I keep the stove in corn mode? The only difference I can tell between corn and pellet mode is the stirrer gets removed before running in pellet mode. Also in corn mode, there were only about 2 cups of ash in the pan after an entire 40lb bag of pellets and all were burned up completely.
Thanks, Todd
I called Englander tech before buying this stove just to make sure parts are still available, and they were so I based my purchase on that fact and that I paid less than half the cost of a new stove. The tech also recommended leaving this stove in the corn mode even though I will be burning wood pellets.
Last week I fired it for the first time when overnight temps were dropping into the 20s and everything went great except for needing to turn off the stirrer until the fire was blazing so it wouldn't smother it out.
The stove worked fantastic in corn mode and actually put out so much heat during the 3 hour break-in on setting 5 that I had to turn it down at hour 2 to setting 3 just to keep myself from burning up. This was using a bag of Lignetics brand pellets I bought from Tractor Supply @ $5.49.
The second bag of pellets I got from Lowes were Greentree brand @ $4.98. These pellets put out much more heat than Lignetics so I only needed to run the stove on setting 1 most of the time. I was also told that Home Depots Heatrs brand pellets came from the same plant as the Greentree so I picked up a bag to test and they were just as good but only cost $3.98.
Looks like at the lower stove settings, 1-3, I should get about 24-28 hours of burning per bag. So I guess my only question is should I keep the stove in corn mode? The only difference I can tell between corn and pellet mode is the stirrer gets removed before running in pellet mode. Also in corn mode, there were only about 2 cups of ash in the pan after an entire 40lb bag of pellets and all were burned up completely.
Thanks, Todd
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