Sequoya E3300

[MyOutdoors]

Well since no one really owns one, I don't know if you'll be able to help. I seem to be running into a problem. When the unit calls for the blower to kick in, the boiler will start to chug like a friggin locomotive. I shut down the boiler and called the manufacturer and spoke to Rick. He thought I should adjust the RO setting, so I did. I went from 10 down to 5, then down to 3. It seems to be doing the same thing? I cleaned out the ashes thinking something may be blocking the "fire brick maze", but still get the shaking. I noticed when I opened the door there didn't seem to be a good bed of coals. Once the door was open the fire caught and started to flame up nice and hot. I have been burning less than desirable wood. It's all hard wood and pine scraps from the barn I built, but it's not fully seasoned. I really loaded it up with the pine scraps today which are 1x10 barn boards. It doesn't do this all the time, so I'm wondering if the pine scraps aren't providing a good bed of hot coals? Any thoughts?

 

[NNYorker]

Sounds like what my Adobe would do when I burned slab wood in it. With all the surface area of the scraps ---too much combustion gas and not enough oxygen to burn it up?????

 

[MyOutdoors]

No problems today burning regular split hardwood. I think your right. The 1x10 pine boards were moist and when I stacked them up, they made a 10x10 wet log which I believe would not dry out and let the stove do it's thing. Another lesson learned!