Brand new Harman XXV doesnt have a switch on the hopper lid.

[bill-e]

Hi folks.

New to wood stoves and my supplier isn't open today so I thought I'd see if anyone here has an answer.

I bought and installed a new XXV yesterday. The one in the showroom had a switch under the hopper lid. My stove, which the box said was manufactured on 11/12/13 does not.

Is this an assembly error or has the design changed?

Thanks.

 

[Bioburner]

If you try and fire it up and no go, its a Friday Got kids? I call hopper switches, Idiot switches because only an idiot would stick a finger down there with a moving auger. I probably would have fired up the stove awhile outside to burn off the paint smell etc.

 

[bill-e]

Stove is installed and working great. We did have some paint smell but that's all dissipated now. I wasn't sure if the hopper switch only turned off the auger or if it also acted like the pressure switch.

My son in law and I unloaded it from my truck and brought it into the house yesterday and I installed it and had it up and running in a couple of hours. Heavy sucker

 

[Bioburner]

Warm greetings to the site and on your install of a good stove that should serve you well for many years if taken care of, and save some $$$ on heating costs.

 

[iceguy4]

Welcome bill-e

 

[bill-e]

I'm spending about 4500/year for oil with my house set at an average of 64°. I've been running this stove for a day, it is pretty cold here in New England today and it is keeping most of my house at 63° (with the exception of the room the stove is in). If I can figure out a way to get heat into the kitchen on the other end of the house or can raise the temp there a bit with some kind of elect heater, I'll set my oil heat at 59° and I'll save a bunch this year.

 

[lbcynya]

Hmmm, maybe they went back to the muffler... Do you have what looks like a 1"long x 1/2"diameter filter towards the top left side of the inside of the hopper??

 

[P38X2]

My 8/13 manufactured P68...no hopper switch. I think Harman is done with them.

 

[iceguy4]

I'm spending about 4500/year for oil with my house set at an average of 64°. I've been running this stove for a day, it is pretty cold here in New England today and it is keeping most of my house at 63° (with the exception of the room the stove is in). If I can figure out a way to get heat into the kitchen on the other end of the house or can raise the temp there a bit with some kind of elect heater, I'll set my oil heat at 59° and I'll save a bunch this year.

check your stove...if its cycling (not running full tilt ALL the time) then you need to adjust something...room temp vs stove temp...room getting too hot (not enough fans moving heat to outer edges). That's a big stove and should be able to heat the whole house un assisted on all but the coldest days

 

[DBCOOPER]

You'll have to try different things to get the heat around. What works for me is running my quad on its lowest setting. After awhile the heat travels in its own little weather system of air currents.The longer its on the more even the heat. Some use fans blowing the colder air toward the stove.Some use their furnace fan to move the heat around. Some cut holes and some just drink beer.Welcome aboard.

 

[bill-e]

It is running all the time since I cranked up the room temp, will experiment with stove temp.

I'm not surprised by my cold kitchen, the kitchen is cooler than the rest of the house even when running my furnace.

House dates back to 1700's and only has attic insulation. Any suggestion for fans. I've ordered a couple of corner fans and am using a couple of my summer fans not to move the air.

Stove is sitting on the hearth at a 45° angle so it's blowing towards the front of the room.

Crudely drawn floor plan of first floor

 

[Bioburner]

Get cooking

 

[iceguy4]

and some just drink beer

LOL the beer drinkers have been absent lately I agree 100% with DB and since my heat is central now I have used wood stoves in the past. Another trick I employed was to block off sections of lesser used living space with 2" ground contact foam.

BTW, nice spread. I love those houses where the barn is attached to the kitchen. My grams place was like that. She had a little cast iron stove right there that she fed from the barn ...3feet away. !

 

[iceguy4]

Stove is sitting on the hearth at a 45° angle so it's blowing towards the front of the room.

Based on your floor plan , I would set up a clockwise flow, air directly across the front rooms toward kitchen . Now for the return across the back somehow (holes...power vents...) and block the front to rear opening just behind stove (to stop air from taking short cut) this can be a sheet or blanket... Point is you got to "tinker"

 

[bill-e]

So far I'm pretty happy, the whole house other than the kitchen is comfortable. It's currently 11° outside. I placed an oil filled portable heater in the kitchen and that seems to work OK. Still need to play with the fans.

My next concern is setting my thermostat on the furnace to come on a few times a day to heat up the hole in the ground I call a cellar. I'm not sure how cold that will get without the furnace running constantly. The house basically sits on a stone foundation with unheated crawl space until you get under the middle of the house and then there's the basement but it is open to the crawl space.

 

[Sooty_Steve]

Harman has done away with the sensor switch under the hopper lid.