I bought a used Breckwell Big E utility furnace, the one with small glass in the door, and I'm concerned its running really hot. The temperature on the front door is 650 degrees. The sides are 4 to 500 degrees after running for a handful of hours. I'm running 3" pipe, evl is 20 which i know is high. Would adding 4" pipe make it burn that much better.
Breckwell big e too hot?
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"WARNING: DO NOT OVERFIRE THIS STOVE. This may cause serious damage to your stove and void your warranty. It also may create a fire hazard in your home. IF ANY EXTERNAL PART OF THE UNIT BEGINS TO GLOW, YOU ARE OVERFIRING. Immediately press the “POWER” switch on the control panel."
Better get it turned down. You must be close o tripping the hi limit disk
Setting 2. Flames seem high and lazy with damper in. Had damper at 1/2 to 3/4 out which seemed to make it burn better by looking at flame. Im using tractor supply pellets.
Nothing was glowing but it was noticeably hot and radiating a lot of heat. I used a infrared thermometer on different parts of the stoves surface and figured that is too hot for a pellet stove but couldn't find any specifics for this stove.
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