Englander 25-PDVC not putting out heat

[Kylebobby]

Hey I recently purchased a used englander 25-PDVC pellet stove mfd 2014. That a friend used to heat his cabin and now it’s in my 500 square foot garage and I’m having no luck getting it to heat the space.

The stove will lite by itself, burns good but you have to be inch’s from the front to feel the blower putting off lukewarm air. The blower works. I even took it off and cleaned the blades as well as blow out the dust in the stove with an air compressor. When I put this stove on 3-3 in 12 hours it burns about 30lbs of pellets and my garage will only be 6 degrees in the morning. Almost like al the heats going out the exhaust. I took The large plate out and cleaned behind it and put it back in tight against the back of the fire place.

I had my lower settings at 5-4-1 and changed them to 6-4-1 with no improvement. I’m using the same pellets that heated the cabin no problem. And the chimney only runs a short distance out the back wall. the ash is fine in the burn pot when I clean it and the glass isn’t getting super black. Between bags.

When I’m working in the garage I can set it to 9-9 and maybe get 12 degrees Celsius around the unit but the other side of the garage is still cold.

The garage is insulated, and with my little ice fishing heater I can get the temp to 17 degrees.

 

[ericofmaine]

Question: When you set it to 9-9, are you still only getting lukewarm air?

Eric

 

[Kylebobby]

Yes the flame gets a little bigger and there’s a slightly higher heat coming out, but there’s no way it should be burning that much pellets with the blower working that hard for how little heat comes out. The stove itself is getting hot, can’t touch the front sides or it’ll burn the hand.

 

[ericofmaine]

Check your room air blower, back right side of the stove when looking at it from the front. My PDV has a screen covering the opening that I'm having to clean out pet hair and dust at least twice a year. I can tell when it needs it as it starts moving less air and the stove will get hot to the touch.

Eric

 

[Kylebobby]

Yeah I had the blower right out and cleaned the dust build up on the fan blades and made sure the gasket was in straight, no screen on this one. Still didn’t change anything.

I’ve seen other posts on this site about the pellet stoves not putting heat out. But there’s been no real solutions.

 

[Kylebobby]

Would anyone know if you can control the exhaust fan speed, it seems all my heat is going out the chimney?

 

[Sagitta]

This may seem like a dumb question, but I was having similar issues with mine (older, 2008 IIRC), then took a better look at it to see if anything jumped out at me.

I bought mine used, no manual, and have only been burning it a week or two, so I hadn't thought to look for obvious issues.

It had the baffle plate installed wrong (upside down) in it so it was failing the job that baffle plates are intended to do - block the heat from going up the chimney. I'm guessing the plate somehow flipped during transport, or may have never been set properly through the previous owners.