I had the stove shut down for the final touches to the chimney topper on the stack today so thought, well gonna clean it tomorrow anyway. It went well I thought. I opened the little hatch under the burn pot, there were a few ashes in there that I just swept out with a small brush. I opened the large hatch behind the ash bin, the blower was clean and the passage out to the piping was just a little tan, no deposits, no restrictions obvious. I doubt that even needed a look after just a week but hey, it's right there. The ESP probe was also a little tan. I swept down the heat exchanger and sides of the stove, cleaned off ash on the shelves and ledges inside there etc.
Now about the burn pot itself. Back where the pellets stack up and the most pellets fill and burn, there was a dime sized carbon deposit on each side directly across from one another ( on the side walls). Tough deposit, took some hefty chipping. I'm curious about those deposits, the only carbon in the stove that was stuck. At first I thought it was part of the casting but then I also thought, wait that wasn't there last week ! What I'm most curious about is do others have them exactly there in the Harman burn pots and why there and no place else ? Not complaining mind you but curious. The end face of the auger had a bit of resin or creosote , very very thin coating that I left there for the next cleaning..
I pulled the back cover to see the intake port and to see the blower fan back there, both spotless, air flapper free. We have four cats in the house, i wanted to be sure it wasn't fuzzing up inside those. Fired it back up and it's burning like the first firing last week.
Now about the burn pot itself. Back where the pellets stack up and the most pellets fill and burn, there was a dime sized carbon deposit on each side directly across from one another ( on the side walls). Tough deposit, took some hefty chipping. I'm curious about those deposits, the only carbon in the stove that was stuck. At first I thought it was part of the casting but then I also thought, wait that wasn't there last week ! What I'm most curious about is do others have them exactly there in the Harman burn pots and why there and no place else ? Not complaining mind you but curious. The end face of the auger had a bit of resin or creosote , very very thin coating that I left there for the next cleaning..
I pulled the back cover to see the intake port and to see the blower fan back there, both spotless, air flapper free. We have four cats in the house, i wanted to be sure it wasn't fuzzing up inside those. Fired it back up and it's burning like the first firing last week.
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