Hi All,
Newbie owner here. Well..I finally installed our Accentra this past weekend. I had ordered vent pipe back in middle of Oct. and place I ordered never got in in. So found some Metal-Fab vent pipe from Heartline Stove in Jaffrey, N.H. Still figuring out how to resize pictures and then I will post a bunch of outside and inside install.
We did a corner install with a straight horz thur the wall install. My vent pipe from outside flange to tip of jet end cap is 17 inches. I think I am going to add another 12 inches just because I would feel a little more at ease with end a little more away from house wall. I also used fresh air intake thimble kit from Harman, need only to cut one opening in the wall.
My installation went very well for a newbie and first time install. I will share a little tip with you all that may installing much easier then normal. I built my hearth with help from a carpenter friend of mind and after it was build it came out to about 70 lbs. So I thought wow; now I have to put 350 pound stove on the hearth how the heck can I move all this.
Solution: Found these three wheel steel dolly's at local hardware store. Here is picture, I did not buy from here but pic will let you see what I am talking about.
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/22-9124 I installed 4 (6.50 each) of them with lag bolts to bottom of hearth! Made lining up stove to wall for pipe installation very easy and also will make future service and cleaning nice and easy.
Some questions:
I know other day I was reading some post and lots of people were saying that their pellets stove's surface area's in general do not get hot, one even had a picture of a cat sleeping on top of a stove. Well since yesterday was our first time firing up the stove at 65 degree setting, blower set mid-way on the "stove temp" setting and pellet feed to just under three. After three hours temp in house went from 65 to 72 and stove sides and top are very hot. Not as hot as my old wood stove but you can not place your hand on it for sure. Is this ok and normal for for Harman Accentra?
My end cap is what they call a Horizontal Jet Cap and today while searching online for "Metal-Fab 12 inch vent pipe I found a "Horizontal Vent Cap". My cap points straight out and the Horizontal vent cap points downward. Considering my installation is there any advantage or disadvantage to which end cap is used? My vent pipe is about 5 feet above the ground outside. I am near a corner of the house about 18 inches from corner and on that corner which is front of house is 16 foot evergreen pine tree. So I have a little concern about sparks drifting toward that tree. You can see what end caps I am talking about here. (broken link removed). The horizontal vent end cap looks like it would at least knock sparks downward first before leaving pipe thereby reducing how far they may drift.
We did fire up stove for first time yesterday and I was plesantly surprised at how quiet blower was, all went well. Sparks inside of stove while fire was flaming but I did not see any at all outside, not even smoke just hot air exhaust. There was smoke when we first started stove outside for a minute or so and then everything ran nice and clean. I have four ton Lignetic's, not sure if that is spelled right.
One last question, cannot spend money on battery backup at this time, but do you all have at least a surge protector for your stoves?
Thanks and I will work on getting pic's up.
Newbie owner here. Well..I finally installed our Accentra this past weekend. I had ordered vent pipe back in middle of Oct. and place I ordered never got in in. So found some Metal-Fab vent pipe from Heartline Stove in Jaffrey, N.H. Still figuring out how to resize pictures and then I will post a bunch of outside and inside install.
We did a corner install with a straight horz thur the wall install. My vent pipe from outside flange to tip of jet end cap is 17 inches. I think I am going to add another 12 inches just because I would feel a little more at ease with end a little more away from house wall. I also used fresh air intake thimble kit from Harman, need only to cut one opening in the wall.
My installation went very well for a newbie and first time install. I will share a little tip with you all that may installing much easier then normal. I built my hearth with help from a carpenter friend of mind and after it was build it came out to about 70 lbs. So I thought wow; now I have to put 350 pound stove on the hearth how the heck can I move all this.
Solution: Found these three wheel steel dolly's at local hardware store. Here is picture, I did not buy from here but pic will let you see what I am talking about.
http://www.mcmelectronics.com/product/22-9124 I installed 4 (6.50 each) of them with lag bolts to bottom of hearth! Made lining up stove to wall for pipe installation very easy and also will make future service and cleaning nice and easy.
Some questions:
I know other day I was reading some post and lots of people were saying that their pellets stove's surface area's in general do not get hot, one even had a picture of a cat sleeping on top of a stove. Well since yesterday was our first time firing up the stove at 65 degree setting, blower set mid-way on the "stove temp" setting and pellet feed to just under three. After three hours temp in house went from 65 to 72 and stove sides and top are very hot. Not as hot as my old wood stove but you can not place your hand on it for sure. Is this ok and normal for for Harman Accentra?
My end cap is what they call a Horizontal Jet Cap and today while searching online for "Metal-Fab 12 inch vent pipe I found a "Horizontal Vent Cap". My cap points straight out and the Horizontal vent cap points downward. Considering my installation is there any advantage or disadvantage to which end cap is used? My vent pipe is about 5 feet above the ground outside. I am near a corner of the house about 18 inches from corner and on that corner which is front of house is 16 foot evergreen pine tree. So I have a little concern about sparks drifting toward that tree. You can see what end caps I am talking about here. (broken link removed). The horizontal vent end cap looks like it would at least knock sparks downward first before leaving pipe thereby reducing how far they may drift.
We did fire up stove for first time yesterday and I was plesantly surprised at how quiet blower was, all went well. Sparks inside of stove while fire was flaming but I did not see any at all outside, not even smoke just hot air exhaust. There was smoke when we first started stove outside for a minute or so and then everything ran nice and clean. I have four ton Lignetic's, not sure if that is spelled right.
One last question, cannot spend money on battery backup at this time, but do you all have at least a surge protector for your stoves?
Thanks and I will work on getting pic's up.
