Ecoteck Monica

[bmyers]

I cleaned the burnpot area of stove. The room was chilly. I was running stove on a 4 setting. I got an alarm high smoke temp. Does anyone know what the exhaust temp usually is on an ecoteck. I clean the stove on a regular basis. I did adjust some pellet/draft settings. The book says about combustion settings/combustion fan or firepot. The combustion fan is working as I can see rpms change on screen. I am burning same pellets I always burn.

 

[Lake Girl]

From the installer's manual:
Hot smoke: This is triggered not as a real alarm but as a warning that the maximum threshold PR14 has been reached. When it is
in this condition, although leaving the heat exchanger at P5, the motherboard reduces the pellet load and draught to P1 in order
to cool the body and the SMOKE TEMP.
Smoke over-temperature alarm: This occurs when the Hot smoke has not managed to cool the smoke probe and the smoke
probe records a temperature over 269°C/516 °F.

 

[bmyers]

From the installer's manual:
Hot smoke: This is triggered not as a real alarm but as a warning that the maximum threshold PR14 has been reached. When it is
in this condition, although leaving the heat exchanger at P5, the motherboard reduces the pellet load and draught to P1 in order
to cool the body and the SMOKE TEMP.
Smoke over-temperature alarm: This occurs when the Hot smoke has not managed to cool the smoke probe and the smoke
probe records a temperature over 269°C/516 °F.

I got the hot smokies alarm. do you have the installers manual for monica? do you know what your exhaust temp is on a #3 setting. I usually don't have it on a #4 like I did last night.

 

[St_Earl]

(broken link removed to http://www.naturesflame.co.nz/site/naturesflame/files/Product%20Downloads/Monica%20Plus//Monica%20Plus%20Owner's%20&%20Installation%20Manual_04122012_WEB.pdf)

 

[Pelleting In NJ]

I get the "Hot Smoke" message every so often when I run the stove on 5. The stove stops feeding pellets and continues after it cools down after about a minute or two. Nothing to worry about, it just means your pellets are burning hotter than what the stove feedrate and exhaust blower speed parameter were set at the factory. Won,t harm anything. You could try tweaking your flue draft "recipe" for the next more restrictive flue setting, which will speed up the combustion blower motor, and generally lower the exhaust gas temps.