Has anyone added a temp probe onto their stove after using the stove without it, and was it worth adding. I don't have one for my stove and am wondering if I would see some good gains by adding one.
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I suppose I'd ask what do you mean by good gains? I find if I run my units on stove temp thru the coldest months, I may use more pellets than I would at room temps, but I don't have any temperature swings & as a result, my house stays warmer. Every house & install is different, so your own results will vary.
Thanks Bob. When I mentioned good gains I was thinking of is it worth the expense of buying the sensor and trying to hide the wire. I think I can get one delivered for about $25. I have been happy running my stove on stove temp but I don't have a sensor to know what the gains might be if any. My stove runs on the lower speed setting just about all day as we turn that stove off at night time.
Had a devil of a time trying to get the passages on the sides of the stove cleaned. They are like a upside down "U" and trying to get a brush through the "U" portion is just about impossible. I ended up using plastic tubing hooked up to a air compressor that finaly worked. It seems that it was clogged since I got the stove about 5 years ago as we are now getting great heat out of the stove. Another case of a clean stove..............
Have a couple different types of long flexible brushes coming my way from e-bay in hopes of making it easier. I'm not willing to spend almost $50 for the Harman brush so I will spend a lot of time instead trying to find something else that works.
Had a devil of a time trying to get the passages on the sides of the stove cleaned. They are like a upside down "U" and trying to get a brush through the "U" portion is just about impossible. I ended up using plastic tubing hooked up to a air compressor that finaly worked. It seems that it was clogged since I got the stove about 5 years ago as we are now getting great heat out of the stove. Another case of a clean stove..............
Have a couple different types of long flexible brushes coming my way from e-bay in hopes of making it easier. I'm not willing to spend almost $50 for the Harman brush so I will spend a lot of time instead trying to find something else that works.
If your Invincible dates back to '94 it's probably the original "T" model with the manual feel adjustment knob, same as mine. I didn't think these came with an igniter, and if you don't have that running in room temp mode is not really an option.
Tim,
I'm not sure what you are telling me> I don't have a ignitor but do have the option of running the stove in room temp or stove temp.
I'm not sure what you are telling me> I don't have a ignitor but do have the option of running the stove in room temp or stove temp.
What I mean is that if you run in room temp mode, the stove will adjust the heat output as the temperature in the room changes, but without an igniter it can't completely go out and then re-light itself when temperatures drop below a pre-set level. I guess there maybe some benefit to running it this way, but they would be limited.
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