Hello all,
I have lurked these forums for about 5 years. Over the course of that time, Ive had 3 different woodstoves and I am now on my 3rd pellet burner. Info of past pellet stoves are an englander 25 pvdc that came with the house. Worked just didnt like the output as it seemed luke warm air, but it did indeed heat the home just didnt feel like good heat. I also had a quad mt vernon oe. Bought it used with problems that were not known at time of buying. Mainly a severely cracked burn pot. This stove was awesome and did more than enough heat for my 1100 sq ft upstairs heated area, but never burned right as i kept patching the hole in the pot. Thing was way to big and ultimately why i didnt fix and keep. It was on a brick hearth that i removed and had no other spot to put the stove.
So here we are, i heat 1100 sq ft of living area with an unheated equal amount downstairs as its basement/garage of a split level home. Half of the upstairs area is well insulated meaning 600 sq ft and about half of the other 600 sq ft is pretty well insulated. Kitchen wall of 24ft is not good. Attic insulation suffers at only about an r20 but I havent gotten that far yet in renovations.
I recently purchased a mini a from another forum member here. The stove is setup in an open living area. Vented through the wall in a straight run, for now. I am going to add a t and about 3 ft of vertical at some point soon. No OAK as the enviro oak is a bit silly to me.
So here's the deal and where I am getting the point. I have no control over the convection fan as far as speed goes. Its either off or on and ramps voltage based on the heat setting. The fan is only 105 cfm, but at lower burn settings it moves very little air at all. Basically the stove would not heat my home unless its on a 5 setting. Now i realize this is 30k btu and rated to heat my area almost exactly, but i expected more. So in messing around the other day I hooked 110 directly to the convection blower to test max speed. So as an experiment i left it running max for the day. Hooked up like that a 2 setting keeps my house 74 75. A 3 at 78. When with the factory fan settings at a 4 were doing 72 at most. So for you gurus out there im looking to see if i can wire this in some way with the factory harness to get the line voltage at all times without having an extension chord running in the back. The harness wiring is one white wire coming from the wall plug and two purple coming from control board. It is currently single digit temps outside and the stove is doing its job in its jerry rigged state.
On a side not the slider for air control does not seem to close up as far as i would think. I took it apart yesterday and cleaned it and filed and raised burrs off but still the same distance. I feel like i should be able to make a lazy flame with this slider, but it seems to be getting slightly to much air with a little overactive flame. I have already lowered the combustion blower setting to a 1(lowest) and damper as closed as i can get it. Is this a venting issue as Im currently very short run straight out. I have about 18" in total of pipe on the back at the moment.
Thank you Gentleman
I have lurked these forums for about 5 years. Over the course of that time, Ive had 3 different woodstoves and I am now on my 3rd pellet burner. Info of past pellet stoves are an englander 25 pvdc that came with the house. Worked just didnt like the output as it seemed luke warm air, but it did indeed heat the home just didnt feel like good heat. I also had a quad mt vernon oe. Bought it used with problems that were not known at time of buying. Mainly a severely cracked burn pot. This stove was awesome and did more than enough heat for my 1100 sq ft upstairs heated area, but never burned right as i kept patching the hole in the pot. Thing was way to big and ultimately why i didnt fix and keep. It was on a brick hearth that i removed and had no other spot to put the stove.
So here we are, i heat 1100 sq ft of living area with an unheated equal amount downstairs as its basement/garage of a split level home. Half of the upstairs area is well insulated meaning 600 sq ft and about half of the other 600 sq ft is pretty well insulated. Kitchen wall of 24ft is not good. Attic insulation suffers at only about an r20 but I havent gotten that far yet in renovations.
I recently purchased a mini a from another forum member here. The stove is setup in an open living area. Vented through the wall in a straight run, for now. I am going to add a t and about 3 ft of vertical at some point soon. No OAK as the enviro oak is a bit silly to me.
So here's the deal and where I am getting the point. I have no control over the convection fan as far as speed goes. Its either off or on and ramps voltage based on the heat setting. The fan is only 105 cfm, but at lower burn settings it moves very little air at all. Basically the stove would not heat my home unless its on a 5 setting. Now i realize this is 30k btu and rated to heat my area almost exactly, but i expected more. So in messing around the other day I hooked 110 directly to the convection blower to test max speed. So as an experiment i left it running max for the day. Hooked up like that a 2 setting keeps my house 74 75. A 3 at 78. When with the factory fan settings at a 4 were doing 72 at most. So for you gurus out there im looking to see if i can wire this in some way with the factory harness to get the line voltage at all times without having an extension chord running in the back. The harness wiring is one white wire coming from the wall plug and two purple coming from control board. It is currently single digit temps outside and the stove is doing its job in its jerry rigged state.
On a side not the slider for air control does not seem to close up as far as i would think. I took it apart yesterday and cleaned it and filed and raised burrs off but still the same distance. I feel like i should be able to make a lazy flame with this slider, but it seems to be getting slightly to much air with a little overactive flame. I have already lowered the combustion blower setting to a 1(lowest) and damper as closed as i can get it. Is this a venting issue as Im currently very short run straight out. I have about 18" in total of pipe on the back at the moment.
Thank you Gentleman
