Good evening all,
I am on my fifth year of burning a Biomass 40 with water storage. Late last year, I noticed some water staining the wall below my chimney thimble. When cleaning the stove, there was considerable creosote in the turbulators and fan area (whereas before I only had a white flyash material). If anything, my wood is drier than before (an additional year of seasoning).
My nozzle was quite worn, so I replaced that yesterday (which is a job in itself!). Now I have a slightly stained water running out of the chimney. This is to say that it is not a drip, but a small stream. When I close the damper, which directs the process through the secondary burn chamber, the stream reduces to dripping.
The chimney is a clay-lined masonry brick unit with a cap. I have not had this issue before.
The only other item to know is that my computer read-out was giving me an E1 and E3 readouts. Mark at Ahona is mailing me a new one, but I pulled the original and put it into cold water, then hot water, and it responded appropriately. I inserted it back under the stove cover (on the water jacket) and it seems to be working correctly.
Any ideas?
Thanks for reading such a long post and for your thoughts.
Bill
I am on my fifth year of burning a Biomass 40 with water storage. Late last year, I noticed some water staining the wall below my chimney thimble. When cleaning the stove, there was considerable creosote in the turbulators and fan area (whereas before I only had a white flyash material). If anything, my wood is drier than before (an additional year of seasoning).
My nozzle was quite worn, so I replaced that yesterday (which is a job in itself!). Now I have a slightly stained water running out of the chimney. This is to say that it is not a drip, but a small stream. When I close the damper, which directs the process through the secondary burn chamber, the stream reduces to dripping.
The chimney is a clay-lined masonry brick unit with a cap. I have not had this issue before.
The only other item to know is that my computer read-out was giving me an E1 and E3 readouts. Mark at Ahona is mailing me a new one, but I pulled the original and put it into cold water, then hot water, and it responded appropriately. I inserted it back under the stove cover (on the water jacket) and it seems to be working correctly.
Any ideas?
Thanks for reading such a long post and for your thoughts.
Bill