2012-2013 half fast temp test results

[pell it]

2012-2013 Heating Season Convection Temps for Various Pellet Brands

Please take with a grain of salt as your mileage may vary. Unless otherwise noted, all temps taken on a clean stove set to #3 of 5. Stove has no provisions for feed trim or combustion air trim at that setting. Stove does have a half fast damper, but no adjustments were made.

Temperatures were read with an ultra precision $5.00 Harbor Freight instant read thermometer mounted 1 inch out from the lower left center heat exchanger tube.
Reading were taken after a minimum 1 hour run at setting #3 with most being an average of many reading including overnight at setting #3. (not a clean stove at that point, but started out as one)

Heat output with this US Stove 5660 is all about pellet size, length, and density.

Please keep the floggings to a minimum as this was all done for fun!
Temperatures are in degrees Fahrenheit.


Barefoot 255-260
TSC Bedding 250-260
Okies 240-250
Fireside Ultra 245-250
Greene Team 235-240
Somerset 230-235
Blazers 225-235
Timber Heat 220-225
Green Supreme 215-220
MWP 205-210
Northeast 195-205


Footnotes:
Blazers and MWP spent the summer absorbing humidity in my shed
Only had two bags each of Okies and Somerset
Only one bag of TSC Bedding lots of ash!

 

[jtakeman]

Nice, Thanks for sharing. I was impressed with the Fireside Ultra's when I tried some last fall. Good bang for the buck pellet IMHO.

Like to see what you get if you found some Pres-to-logs? They are pretty hot this season too.

 

[pell it]

Have not seen any Prestos this year. HD had them last year about this time of year, last I checked, all Green Supreme.

I did not keep track of length of burn per bag, but with my stove it's all about size that's way Blazers are not higher on the list.

 

[PoolGuyinCT]

Thanks for the report..

Udaman!

 

[john193]

Thanks. I was really impressed with the 4 bags of barefoot I burnt this year and your numbers look simar to what I observed with these pellets.

 

[The Ds]

Thanks for taking the time to compile this, and thanks for sharing with us.

 

[pell it]

thanks pell it , i thought the Blazers would rate higher. never tried them
maybe the shed affected them dunno

In the batch of Blazers I have, the majority are three quarters to one inch long. My stove just can't get enough in the burn pot per rev of the auger.(no feed trim) I still get plenty of heat with a long burn time and almost zero ash!