Englander 55SHP-22 returned

[scruffy]

Well, I took Lowe's up on their 90 day return and exchanged my stove for another one. The first one wouldn't put out any heat. Don't ask why, I went though everything I could think of to get it to heat. Flame was good and all augers and blowers worked. That one is now history.

Installed the new stove last night and fired it up. Did the 3 hour burn in at 5-5 as recommended. This stove was actually putting out heat. Didn't do anything different, hooked it up the same. Although I did have to free up a stuck exhaust blower that was not running after I did a systems check before I started the stove for the first time.

Set the stove at 2-3 and when to bed. In the morning the 400 sq. ft. room was at 68 degres and the outside temp was 25. I guess this one will work out after I tweak it in.

The wife just called me at work and said the stove just shut down after about 14 hours of burn time. I told her to open the hopper and look at the pellet level. She had to brush pellets from the sides into the auger, so not a complete bag was burned. I'll have to check it out when I get home.

Any suggestions on settings would be appreciated to improve my burn and pellet consumsion.
Thanks,

 

[teamorange]

I am trying to figure this out as well. From what I was told, its basically going to take a little time to figure out what temp and blower settings work best. Adding addtional fan or fans in the house to circulate the warm air has been working very well for me...

 

[scruffy]

Now that you mention it. What about locating fans?
I've heard blowing cool are into the stove area is better than blowing the warm air out into other areas. What is your experience on what works better?

 

[teamorange]

I have one tower fan about 2 feet in front of the stove that blows it straight into the living room. That seemed to work best. I also put another fan in the living room to blow the air around in there. What seemed not to work as well as a keeping the tower fan in one position was setting it to oscillate. But again this is just my experience, there might be a better way, hopefully others will give their experience as well.

 

[staplebox]

You are going to just have to play around with the settings. I spent hours last winter fiddling with the main settings as well as the three bottom buttons. I settled on 5-7-1 on the bottom for the pellets I have but different brands need different settings. For these pellets a setting of 4-7-1 lets the flame go a bit too low in between feedings. Your mileage will vary.

As far as the main settings - the lowest fan speed I use is 6. I usually only use 1-6 / 3-9 and 5-9, thats it. I set a thermometer a few feet in front of the stove last year while experimenting and a higher fan speed did not equal cooler air. I figure I want to blow as much heat off the exchangers and into the room as possible. I'm thrifty. I may be wrong about this but it works for me.

Good luck, have fun.

 

[pelletizer]

So does anyone know why some of these stoves simply do not blow hot air with blower motor working is it something internal maybe a defective weld or heat exchanger?
Also when tweaking the bottom 3 buttons they only effect settings 1 and 2 correct?

 

[staplebox]

Correct - bottom 3 only effect 1 & 2 feed rate.
The first question, I don't know, that situation didn't make any sense to me.

 

[scruffy]

Pelletizer,

Don't know why my stove didn't heat, but it was a royal pain to try and figure it out. Went through everything I could think of, and still couldn't get it to heat. If anyone has the answer I'd like to know just because I couldn't solve it.

I took Lowe's up on the 90 day return and kept my fingers crossed, that the new one would work.

The stove doesn't heat as well as I heard they do, from people that have a smaller model. Haven't been blown out of the room and it's still not really cold.

I've burned about three bags of Pennington preimum pellets and get about 18 hour burn time at 2-3 setting, after I heat up the room. When I set the heat at 1-3 stove seems to go out during the night. My control numbers are at 5-8-1. Any help here with settings to improve the burn is appreciated.