Ecoteck Ravelli Fransesca or Enviro Mini-A?

[Pelleting In NJ]

Price up the stove adapter, thimble, elbows, clean-out-T, straight-pipe, termination cap, and wall brackets from dynamitebuys.com. I think I spent about $700 for my 4-inch PelletPro get-up.

 

[bollyRZ500]

thanks again Pelleting in NJ!!

seems people around here don't want money!! francesca guy won't return my calls!! was gonna use him as an independant installer but can't find a decent used unit within 100miles anyways!!

 

[bollyRZ500]

pulled the trigger today and bought the Enviro Mini-A!!

... won't be able to pick it up for a few days and then the chimney guy is booked til next week so looks like it's baseboard heating for now....

can anyone confirm if the Mini-A needs a hearth pad or is the base that comes with it acceptable? our flooring is laminate...

 

[bollyRZ500]

well here she is!! sorry for the poor pic!!

she'll sit there till next week when the install guy does his magic then off to the store to buy me some pellets!!

 

[imacman]

can anyone confirm if the Mini-A needs a hearth pad or is the base that comes with it acceptable? our flooring is laminate...

Congrats on the new stove. As for the hearth pad/stove base issue, I'd use the supplied base if the owners manual doesn't have any "exclusions" as to what of floor it can go on.

If you're still concerned, then get a hearth or replace some of the laminate with tile.

 

[bollyRZ500]

thanks imacman!! I printed off the "ultimate pellet chart" and the "big box chart" now to locate them pellets!!

... also found out the supplied base is good enough

 

[bollyRZ500]

picked up a couple bags of the fol;

Ambience - $5.75/bg M&R Feeds
Satisfaction - $ 4.97/bg Home Depot (softies)
Curran - $5.49/bg Home Hardware
found out my Mini-A was made May 2012

... can't wait to start burnin some pellets!!

 

[bollyRZ500]

canawick - $5.99 Cdn Tire (no discounts on a pallet!!)

... bought only 1 bag of these, big price!!

install booked either Wed or Thur this week!!

 

[hoverfly]

I placed my Mini on a pad, no issues and better safe than sorry. It's not that expensive to build a pad from starch. Tile, cement board, plywood, floor cement, screws, trim for the border, grout and grout sealer all for less than a hundred bucks.

pulled the trigger today and bought the Enviro Mini-A!!

... won't be able to pick it up for a few days and then the chimney guy is booked til next week so looks like it's baseboard heating for now....

can anyone confirm if the Mini-A needs a hearth pad or is the base that comes with it acceptable? our flooring is laminate...

 

[bollyRZ500]

thanks hoverfly,I was thinking something similar but I'm running out of time, install guy should be here within the next 2 days!!

 

[hoverfly]

You can build a pad in an hour.

 

[bollyRZ500]

ok install scheduled for tomorrow!! w00t!!

thinkin of a skytech 5301P, just hook the receiver wires up to the two terminals on the stove board that says thermostat?

 

[hoverfly]

ok install scheduled for tomorrow!! w00t!!

thinkin of a skytech 5301P, just hook the receiver wires up to the two terminals on the stove board that says thermostat?

There should be two 6 inch long, red wires, with female crimps coming out of the control board. You can cut the crimps off and use wire nuts or use a small flat screw driver like those for using on glasses, remove the two red wires and insert the T stat wire.

 

[bollyRZ500]

thanks much hoverfly!!

enviro dealer and skytech both confirmed the 5301P works with Mini-A!!

now to submit my "best offer" heheh

BTW, install guy should be here within the hour!! can't friggin wait!!

 

[bollyRZ500]

SOB!!

the correct decoritive ceiling piece won't be available til Monday.... he's tryin to find one semi-locally but not holding our breath

 

[bollyRZ500]

5301P for $150 is in the mail!!

... confirmed install won't be finished until Monday, can't buy one of them supports for twice the price locally!!

gonna look for some kind of pellet container we can set beside the stove today...

 

[bollyRZ500]

last pic before final install, LOL!!

 

[bollyRZ500]

wooohooo!! burnin pellets baby burnin pellets!!

 

[bollyRZ500]

first night couldnt be happier!!

very quiet!!

lotsa heat with blower on 4, heat on 3 and feed on 2!!

glass a little smokey at the bottom 1/3rd but we're still playin..... what a nice little machine!!

 

[hoverfly]

Nice! Glad you like it!

 

[bollyRZ500]

in my limited experience with the pellets, seems Ambience work ok, Satisfaction burn abit faster, Canawick burn much slower and this first bag of Curran I just opened I had to hand sift em!! couple pounds of sawdust!! SOB!!

...may have to build a vacuum sifter!!

 

[hoverfly]

...may have to build a vacuum sifter!!

Yep the Mini does not like fines, the auger does not move the fines to the pot. It just pools at the bottoms of the bin causing feed issues after a while. If you sift it you would not have to clean the bin every week. Just at the end of the seasoned, maybe once have way, that's about it.

 

[smwilliamson]

Yep the Mini does not like fines, the auger does not move the fines to the pot. It just pools at the bottoms of the bin causing feed issues after a while. If you sift it you would not have to clean the bin every week. Just at the end of the seasoned, maybe once have way, that's about it.

Rip the hopper screen out too...then you can actually vacuum out the hopper, stupid design.

 

[Pelleting In NJ]

My Ecoteck has no problems with fines : I have burned over 2 tons and have never vacuumed out thr fines in the hopper.

 

[hoverfly]

Rip the hopper screen out too...then you can actually vacuum out the hopper, stupid design.

LOL I forgot about that! That was my first modification during the first seasoned.