Anyone with a Piazzetta Sabrina ?
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Lake Girl
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Reused jet cap (which is for horizontal venting) on the end of the upper bend? Isn't the termination supposed to be XX" above roof line?
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SmokeyTheBear
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SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
There is positively absolutely a problem with the image uploader on this forum. I cannot get it work.
There's some kind of a pathway issue that locks up my iMac ? And, it's clearly not on my end.
I'm a journalist, and I've been writing and uploading content and images all day.
I'm a journalist, and I've been writing and uploading content and images all day.
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
Well Lake Girl what does the tech support department back at HQ have to say?
If you care to share your direct email with me, I can send you some better photos of the venting.
You could upload to Dropbox and then post links.
Well, those are the settings for P1, 3.3 secs per every 12 secs. 193F is okay for exhaust temp on P1. Don't want to get too low. 1830rpm is right around factory setting of 1850rpm. It does fluctuate just a bit. Anyhow, for comparison, my P1 fan setting is 2100 in order to get the pressure up to factory spec.
If you set the Power settings on the other 4 settings, you can get the pellet feed and combustion fan readings for the other settings, particularly if there are settings giving you trouble, like P4 or P5. I'm assuming the video you posted was of P4 or P5.
I would ask the shop and/or the Piazzetta rep if they used a manometer or magnahelic to set the combustion fan. That should have been done before they told you the last resort is to clean every 12 hrs and/or to return the unit.
SmokeyTheBear
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SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
Much better picture.
Now does that double clean-out come straight out or is it tilted downward. if the OAK was where it is in that picture and the pipe was straight out I can see where the first go around was not working exactly correctly because the exhaust has to be higher than the air intake and you don't want to be sucking dirty oxygen depleted air back in through the OAK which may have been taking place.
If there is a downward tilt in that double clean out you have degraded the output side all sections of venting must be upward by at least 1/4" per foot of "horizontal" run.
The vent being that close to the soffit is also not to your advantage not to mention that the manual specifically speaks to the termination in this particular situation requiring a 45 degree downward piece after the 90 degree elbow at the top of this method of venting.
Now is there a screen on the end of the OAK that we can't see, there is a minimum mesh size listed in the manual IIRC (I only glanced through it).
Now what were the settings that chken wanted to know about and what was the setting that the dealer was attempting to tune to along with the correct procedure to do so? The OAKies you are burning are a fairly dense pellet and require a good amount of non oxygen depleted air to burn correctly.
These pellet roasters are self polluting, doubly so when not properly vented or setup. There are other inside the firebox conditions that have to be correct as well.
Now does that double clean-out come straight out or is it tilted downward. if the OAK was where it is in that picture and the pipe was straight out I can see where the first go around was not working exactly correctly because the exhaust has to be higher than the air intake and you don't want to be sucking dirty oxygen depleted air back in through the OAK which may have been taking place.
If there is a downward tilt in that double clean out you have degraded the output side all sections of venting must be upward by at least 1/4" per foot of "horizontal" run.
The vent being that close to the soffit is also not to your advantage not to mention that the manual specifically speaks to the termination in this particular situation requiring a 45 degree downward piece after the 90 degree elbow at the top of this method of venting.
Now is there a screen on the end of the OAK that we can't see, there is a minimum mesh size listed in the manual IIRC (I only glanced through it).
Now what were the settings that chken wanted to know about and what was the setting that the dealer was attempting to tune to along with the correct procedure to do so? The OAKies you are burning are a fairly dense pellet and require a good amount of non oxygen depleted air to burn correctly.
These pellet roasters are self polluting, doubly so when not properly vented or setup. There are other inside the firebox conditions that have to be correct as well.
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The pipe appears to be tilted, but two far as I can tell its level.
These are the figures I got during the read-out. However, some figures seem to be missing ?
1830 - Smoke Fan rpm
193F - Smoke Probe
3.3 - auger loading
SmokeyTheBear
Minister of Fire
I believe that chken wants that information for each firing rate.
ETA: We don't trust the eyeball if we aren't there and it really needs to be measured and it must point upward. No guessing allowed. Just like my use of IIRC, you need to crack open the manual read it and then verify what is actually there.
When I followed the steps he gave me, that's all that was shown. Maybe I missed a step ?
SmokeyTheBear
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I think he will come back for the rest of the settings or you could send him a private message.
BTW: What was it with the pictures that enabled you to finally upload the last one. I know that at least two updates to some of Apple's system software didn't pass along required information to the requesting server.
I posted the images on another platform, and inserted in my forum post via the url(s).
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