Hi All
We just turned on our new Eko 60 and it's going great, the only issue is we only get a 7 hour burn time (till no fuel left in chamber) which seems low compared to what I read here. The burn time does not worry me all that much since the storage seems to fill in the shortfall but I still wonder if we have got the unit setup right.
I get a flame in the gassification chamber which has a tinge of blue and it fills the U of the refractory. Playing with the secondaries really does not seem to make much of a differences to the flame.
The biggest issue is the smoke, the unit smokes a lot. Opening the gassification chamber door you get a fair bit of smoke and opening the main chamber you get heaps of smoke. When in full gassification mode with a good flame there is also a lot of smoke pouring out of the flue.
I also can't seem to manage a prolonged gassification, when I poke the coals is rips up to a beautiful flame but if I go back 20mins later there is hardy a flame at all.
From what I have read in the fine tuning eko forum this seems to indicate the primaries are too open.... but they are already at 9mm...
Current settings are:
Wood 17%-20%
4000L storage
Primaries 9-10mm (they are closed as far as they will allow, one side went to 9mm the other won't get smaller than 10mm)
Secondaries 3 turns
Blowers 50%
We just turned on our new Eko 60 and it's going great, the only issue is we only get a 7 hour burn time (till no fuel left in chamber) which seems low compared to what I read here. The burn time does not worry me all that much since the storage seems to fill in the shortfall but I still wonder if we have got the unit setup right.
I get a flame in the gassification chamber which has a tinge of blue and it fills the U of the refractory. Playing with the secondaries really does not seem to make much of a differences to the flame.
The biggest issue is the smoke, the unit smokes a lot. Opening the gassification chamber door you get a fair bit of smoke and opening the main chamber you get heaps of smoke. When in full gassification mode with a good flame there is also a lot of smoke pouring out of the flue.
I also can't seem to manage a prolonged gassification, when I poke the coals is rips up to a beautiful flame but if I go back 20mins later there is hardy a flame at all.
From what I have read in the fine tuning eko forum this seems to indicate the primaries are too open.... but they are already at 9mm...
Current settings are:
Wood 17%-20%
4000L storage
Primaries 9-10mm (they are closed as far as they will allow, one side went to 9mm the other won't get smaller than 10mm)
Secondaries 3 turns
Blowers 50%