Ashley AP5660L

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titanracer

Feeling the Heat
Hearth Supporter
Nov 10, 2011
258
South Central PA., Newville
My control panel is pretty straight forward and doesn't have a lot of adjustments to it. It has off/on button, 1-5 burn settings & a thermostat/manual option. As you go higher on burn settings, the pellet feed rate increases, the RPM of exhaust blower increases & the room air blower increases. It seems I could get more heat flowing if I could increase the room air blower to blow at a higher RPM, more heat blowing out. Motor is labelled at 115v. My thought was to wire it with a power cord plug and plug it directly into a 110v wall outlet with a variable speed control. That way I could have more control of the amount air flow blowing from the room air blower. Is this something that is possible. My thought, more air flowing, more the heating blowing out.
 
Not necessarily more heat just more air.
The stove I use in my Family room has a Rheostat fan control
With the stove set at 3/4 on the pellet feed on high (fan), the air reads 260 ::F
Set the fan speed to 1/2, and the output temp is just over 350 ::F
Take from this what you may