I have a new this year englander pellet stove the smallest one they make the 55shp10 or whatever they call it. I have been running pellets in all winter. Performance has been good. When it is in the 20-30's i can run the unit on 1 and keep the house at 75 or so. we have an old 1877 small 1000 sqf house in northern vermont. When the temp drops into single digits I usually bring the stove up to 6 or so and it was struggling to heat the house but going through pellets at a good clip.
I bought a bag of corn to mess around with a corn mix. first I mixed it 50/50 with pellets. HOLY COW! the thing burned so hot. I shut the stove down. I mixed in much more pellets so now I am running maybe a 20% mix if that probably closer to 10%. The stove is stil burning very hot. maybe as hot as the stove would on 8 or 9 i dunno. this is all being at the slowest feed rate. I have the blower speed up at 5 feeling that it is needed to get the extra heat out of the stove so that it won't heat it up too much.
Is this at all safe to do? I really like the extra heat that the stove is putting out. With the light mix of corn it is not making a real noticeable clinker. But it is still cranking out a considerably hotter output. I haven't run the stove much on its hottest setting so I am not sure exactly if the heat this thing is putting out is close to that or i am running the stove on the edge of burning up or causeing a fire.
thanks
tom
I bought a bag of corn to mess around with a corn mix. first I mixed it 50/50 with pellets. HOLY COW! the thing burned so hot. I shut the stove down. I mixed in much more pellets so now I am running maybe a 20% mix if that probably closer to 10%. The stove is stil burning very hot. maybe as hot as the stove would on 8 or 9 i dunno. this is all being at the slowest feed rate. I have the blower speed up at 5 feeling that it is needed to get the extra heat out of the stove so that it won't heat it up too much.
Is this at all safe to do? I really like the extra heat that the stove is putting out. With the light mix of corn it is not making a real noticeable clinker. But it is still cranking out a considerably hotter output. I haven't run the stove much on its hottest setting so I am not sure exactly if the heat this thing is putting out is close to that or i am running the stove on the edge of burning up or causeing a fire.
thanks
tom