mikefrommaine said:
jhunter19 said:
I have a brand spankin new 40 combo unit. I can tweak the settings around and get an orange/yellow flame but never anything close to blue. I have a hard time keeping a 145 deg temp, it goes up to there, the pump kicks in and then quicly cools to around 132. then about 5 mins later it gets back up to 145 to start the process all over again. My wood is dry 15-20% (I have a meter). I just do not think I am getting anywhere near full heat out of this thing. I have 500 gals of storage and the temp there has never been over 150, even when the house is not calling for heat. It has been pretty mild here in Upstate NY.
That was happening to me when the system was cold -- took forever to get heat into the distribution system. I found it worked better if I set the pump to come on at 150 with a hysteresis setting of 10. That way there wasn't any cycling of the pump on and off. And the danfoss bypass could slowly allow hot water into the distribution system without cooling the boiler down too much.
Mike,
Just looking at the settings in the pic you should open the fan shutter 100% then just use the fan setting speeds to adjust the rest (hence the lazy flame you are seeing)
Like you figured out the primary is set too small open to about half.
That should get you started.
you can use the chart in the eko to get it close.
http://www.newhorizoncorp.com/PDF/ekomanual.pdf
Yeah you only have 1 fan to charge the fire box. The one on the back should turn on when you open the door to pull the smoke into the chiminey.
Just remember this is for the eko so under 60 it says 50% on fan opening......well we have 2 fans so if you run 1 fan open it 100% like the eko 40 it only has 1 fan.
Rob
Rob