Stove temp or room temp

[CARL jr]

I have a 2002 Harman accentra fs. I tried running room temp and stove temp to keep my space at 70 deg. dose not seem to greatly affect how many pellet are consumed. I Will say it has been vary warm in michigan so far. What is the most efficient way you the experienced Harman owners have found to run stove.

 

[Pete Zahria]

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/how-does-your-harman-work-in-room-temp-manual.150399/

 

[AccentraRRT]

Room temp manual has been the most efficient for me. I keep my temp set between 70-75 which provides enough heat to keep the 400sqft finished area of the basement 70-75, and drifts heat up an open stairwell to warm the two floors above. This slows the use of the oil furnace...
I am getting about 30 hours/bag when temps in the 40s.
Last year I strictly ran on stove temp auto. Setting of 3-4 and feed of 3-4 and was only getting about 12 hours/bag.
I also have the accentra FS (2014)

 

[CARL jr]

I am currently running the same set up in my unfinished bacement and getting 24 to 26 hrs a bag.

 

[CARL jr]

When you say room temp manual do mean the igniter sw is in manual ?

 

[alternativeheat]

When you say room temp manual do mean the igniter sw is in manual ?

That would be Manual, yes. it allows the stove to go into maintenance burn instead of shutting off ( a long low intensity fire, where in Auto the stove would shut down) when there was no heat called for by the room temp probe..