Corn burner questions

[rickwai]

On the spare parts for my St Croix note I keep a circuit board, comb. motor, both snap switches and a rebuilt dist blower. I figured out how to disassemble it and replace bearings. Oh yeah, I have a extra Greenfield in the basement that I bought right to resell that I have not got around to selling. And I am a Harman tech so I have stocked service truck in the garage.

On the pellet mix note, I burn straight corn thru my St Croix. Stove requires a clinker drop every 1.5 days. Clinker is dropped on the fly using the coal rake. Takes a couple minutes. I have gone weeks without shutting the stove down. I just open door and brush the glass off with a natural bristle paint brush daily so I can see the fire.

 

[woodnomore]

I don't mind pulling the pan every day, I can do a hot dump and have the stove back up and running in under 5 minutes. I am still in my first year burning corn and any effort it takes to keep the stove running is a fraction of what it took to heat with wood.

 

[Ssyko]

Can’t jumper a thermocouple. That would be a good standby spare to have along with a auger motor.

 

[woodnomore]

Can’t jumper a thermocouple. That would be a good standby spare to have along with a auger motor.

Is the thermocouple a normally open or normally closed sensor? No it is not but I do have a simulator that I could plug into the circuit to bypass a bad thermocouple.

 

[Ssyko]

Yes you can do a bypass with a tc tester/simulator. Not to many have one lol

 

[woodnomore]

Yes you can do a bypass with a tc tester/simulator. Not to many have one lol

Have them at work I have a key to get in if needed. I am used to NO NC sensors 4 to 20 MA sensors and pulse. Know more about thermal overloads rather than thermocouples. Heck I just need to make it till May with the stove and then I am out.

 

[Ssyko]

Mine is old and in need of calibration, but i only use it to sim a tc. Bench testing quad boards