Brand new Ravelli Francesca, brand new homeowner

[MiniMich]

Hi everyone!
I bought, and had professionally installed, a Ravelli Francesca pellet stove. She's been running about a month and being new to pellet stoves, I have no idea what's "normal". I thoroughly clean it twice a week, since it's a smaller model in my 1300 square foot home. I leave it set between 73-75 (depending on outside temp) and power 3-4. Yesterday it got up to 63 degrees outside, here in MA, but I left her running at 70 power 3. (I have a tropical parrot who needs to stay warm, and i rather enjoy it myself). I came home from work and it was 86 degrees in here I shut it down, cleaned it and fired her back up before bed. Woke up to 83 degrees.
She is always feeding pellets, like every 6 seconds and is "modulating" even though the temp on the menu screen is way above what I set it at. Also, there are mornings (I get up at 3:30 a.m. for work) and its chilly though I've never altered my desired settings. I guess my long winded question is: Isn't this stove supposed to do it's best to maintain the set temp?

 

[Pelleting In NJ]

If it is warmer outside, use the Comfort Clima mode of operation, which shuts the stove completely off if the room temp exceeds the stove thermostat set point. The downside of Comfort Clima mode is that your ignitor gets turned on many more times (when the stove automatically restarts), which consumes some of the "life" of the ignitor.

 

[jerrieric]

Hi everyone!
I bought, and had professionally installed, a Ravelli Francesca pellet stove. She's been running about a month and being new to pellet stoves, I have no idea what's "normal". I thoroughly clean it twice a week, since it's a smaller model in my 1300 square foot home. I leave it set between 73-75 (depending on outside temp) and power 3-4. Yesterday it got up to 63 degrees outside, here in MA, but I left her running at 70 power 3. (I have a tropical parrot who needs to stay warm, and i rather enjoy it myself). I came home from work and it was 86 degrees in here I shut it down, cleaned it and fired her back up before bed. Woke up to 83 degrees.
She is always feeding pellets, like every 6 seconds and is "modulating" even though the temp on the menu screen is way above what I set it at. Also, there are mornings (I get up at 3:30 a.m. for work) and its chilly though I've never altered my desired settings. I guess my long winded question is: Isn't this stove supposed to do it's best to maintain the set temp?

I have a Ravalli rv100c. The room temp probe is at the lower left back corner and it's usually off by 3 to 4 degrees so I just compensate for that when I set the temperature. I usually run at 69 or 71 power 5. The reason I run power 5 is the stove is going to go to its lowest settings when it reaches the temperature set. The only reason to run at a lower power setting is if you're watching TV maybe the blower is too loud for you but it's not loud for me. I just finished cleaning mine after 5 days optimal is cleaning at four days because the ash can at five days is at the tippy-top. How to clean your glass

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[Manly]

I have a Ravalli rv100c. The room temp probe is at the lower left back corner and it's usually off by 3 to 4 degrees so I just compensate for that when I set the temperature. I usually run at 69 or 71 power 5. The reason I run power 5 is the stove is going to go to its lowest settings when it reaches the temperature set. The only reason to run at a lower power setting is if you're watching TV maybe the blower is too loud for you but it's not loud for me. I just finished cleaning mine after 5 days optimal is cleaning at four days because the ash can at five days is at the tippy-top. How to clean your glass

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Hi everyone!
I bought, and had professionally installed, a Ravelli Francesca pellet stove. She's been running about a month and being new to pellet stoves, I have no idea what's "normal". I thoroughly clean it twice a week, since it's a smaller model in my 1300 square foot home. I leave it set between 73-75 (depending on outside temp) and power 3-4. Yesterday it got up to 63 degrees outside, here in MA, but I left her running at 70 power 3. (I have a tropical parrot who needs to stay warm, and i rather enjoy it myself). I came home from work and it was 86 degrees in here I shut it down, cleaned it and fired her back up before bed. Woke up to 83 degrees.
She is always feeding pellets, like every 6 seconds and is "modulating" even though the temp on the menu screen is way above what I set it at. Also, there are mornings (I get up at 3:30 a.m. for work) and its chilly though I've never altered my desired settings. I guess my long winded question is: Isn't this stove supposed to do it's best to maintain the set temp?

It sounds like your Francesca is operating as designed. We are into our third season with a Francesca. As you have found, even when modulating on lower temperatures and power, things can heat up when it’s not too cold out. We just gauge whether to let it modulate for the evening or shut it down. We don’t like to run it in the start stop mode. You’ll figure it out, and during the cold of winter you’ll just let it run. I find if mine is running constantly on high, I have to shut it down after about 24 hours to clean the bur pot. This small heater does a good job of heating our ranch. It’s very efficient on pellets but does require frequent filling with its smallish hopper. I did have some initial component failures but seem to have moved beyond those issues.