New member said he bought the same stove and gave up on it after a year and bought a used Harman.
Actually I used it two weeks and gave up. Bought it brand new in October and it is sitting in my basement unhooked right now. Here is my story on it
Hooked it up and at first tried to run in manual mode, ran first night on number 3 had a cold snap last month down to about 8 or 9 for lows and in the morning pot full of pellets spilled over with unburnt and burning pellets in the ash pan. Figured it was just damper setting at wrong place since these stoves are noted to be fussy to get set right. So I experimented I could run on setting one all night without the pot filling and then setting 2 so I thought I was getting somewhere. Hooked it on a thermostat and had it jumping from setting 1 for the low to 3 for the high which they recommend you go no higher then 3 on thermostat mode. Day after day wake up with a pot full of pellets, tried every damper setting imaginable and couldn't get it so I installed outside air thinking fresh air would help. It helped some I could get through the night but time I got home from work next day I would have a pot full spilled over.
Finally contacted the company they recommended the dollar bill test, the glass door was fine but the ash pan hell I could stick a dollar bill in the gaps in that. The latches are crap too you can hardly get it latched so they sent me a new pan, came with a nice fat rope and some crappy latches with longer steel pieces on the end that did grab a bit better, now I can burn all night and almost till I get home from work the next day with the ash pan sealed up better so I am up to about 24 hour burn at best before I got a full pot.
They were also to send me a gasket repair kit, I wait and wait getting more frustrated each day it don't come and having to shut the stove down each day for cleaning which BTW they suck to clean. Hard to clean under the burn pot. Finally UPS arrives, big old box again and I open it going don't tell me these morons sent me another ash pan, it's heavy and same size box the last one came in. Well of course, ash pan #2 comes, so now I have 3 ash pans. So I contact them again and he says the gasket kit is going out today.
Day after day I wait no kit comes, finally I just shut it down and flip the electric heaters on and figure I will leave the stove off until I get it. In the meantime I start searching for Harman stoves as my local tavern has one and it works great and I am thinking that is what I need a stove that you can run for days on end without doing anything other then adding pellets. So I find a used pc45 used one heating season for $1250 and went bought it. Monday as I am installing the Harman UPS comes with my gasket kit for the Golden Eagle. It was already disconnected and off to the side so I have not tried it with the kit installed.
Here are my thoughts on that stove to sum it up, it would probably work ok if you put the gasket kit in, I heave read others that posted saying it fixed their problem, maybe you can run 4-5 days before shutting it down for cleaning, 2 if you ran a good high quality pellet with low ash woudl surely help, I was running cheapo indek from Menards so between the gasket leaks and cheap pellets & running in thermostat mode is likely what caused so much grief for me. I am not sure it would ever work very good in thermostat mode as I am not sure you could never damper it to jump from setting 1 to 3 successfully. With a high quality pellet and the gasket kit installed it may make a decent garage stove if you get the damper set right and run it manual mode but I doubt I would ever trust it in my house unless you are always around to keep an eye on it. that was my biggest reason for going after the Harman now I can leave for a snowmobile trip for days or even a week or what not and not worry about my family controlling that troublesome stove, long as they can dump pellets in they can run the Harman trouble free.