Trim has little effect on Harman Accentra

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Minister of Fire
May 8, 2011
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midwest
I woke up to pellet embers being pushed off the lip of the firepot. The trim was on about 4. I have reduced it over the course of 6 hours to 2 and its still pushing embers over the edge. What gives?​
 
I keep mine set at 3. Maybe it's time for a deep clean.
 
stove dirty,exhaust or intake restricted,probe very dirty or going bad,combustion motor not running at proper speed,sudden air leak into combustion area(torn gasket.Kinda listed them in order,but not really ==c
 
Laying odds on the stove needing cleaning. The ESP if not clean starts feeding extra fuel. I usually catch mine as I watch the amount of chow the stove goes thu daily.
 
Deep cleaned 3 weeks ago including leaf blower.
 
We just had a new member with a stove issue even though he had a cleaned it 2 weeks before. He went and during the cleaning found his issue. When I first joined the forum the running moto was "if in doubt clean it again"
A good cleaning basically a way to go through and check everything that makes to stove run. I've had the ESP get gunked up pretty good when not running the system very hard-les frequently. Like a car, short runs and stop and go are the most wearing.
 
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Probably the esp. It's set on 65* room temp and it's 78* in here. Maybe the ecu is titts up.
 
Sounds like the ESP isn't sending enough juice back to the board then to taper the fuel down. I just filled stoves and went thru 80 lbs of fuel in the Harman and about 25 in the Bixby in the last 24 hours. Todays whopping high of -3, sunny and no wind so never needed to fire the Elena. Looking to be one of the coldest starts to a new year in a decade