As a new pellet stove owner/user, I was looking for some advice from those of you on the forum.
I have been using our stove in room temp mode since installation (Oct 2010) and until recently it goes on about 2-4 times a day (sometimes less) for about 10-15 minutes a shot and maybe a little more than that at night. We bought a model that heats 2000 + sq feet to heat an only 560 sq feet area hoping to save on pellet usage. It is a furnished downstairs, a large model train room that the stove is in, master bedroom, and a bathroom, all on cement floor (we used to have radiant heat in the floor but the pipes busted last April)
Just this past week, we have experienced the real first cold of winter here in NJ. The stove pattern now is on for the same short time (10-15 min) but then on again sometimes within the hour. The dealer informed me that running the stove like this makes it 'burn dirty' The downstairs that it heats is not well insulated so the stove heats it up to about 76-77 degree's and then it will fall to 67 (I currently have the thermostat set for 67-68) within at most 2 hrs to start the cycle all over again.
My question is, is my using the stove this way using more pellets and more wasteful than if I just put it on stove temp mode? How low can you make stove temp mode go on these stoves? Am I not using the stove in an efficient manner this way? I currently have the feed rate on 3 as per the dealer/installer.
Any advice? opinions are also very welcome! I hate to waste pellets on trial and error and am hoping someone else has some experience with this.
Rob
Andover, NJ
I have been using our stove in room temp mode since installation (Oct 2010) and until recently it goes on about 2-4 times a day (sometimes less) for about 10-15 minutes a shot and maybe a little more than that at night. We bought a model that heats 2000 + sq feet to heat an only 560 sq feet area hoping to save on pellet usage. It is a furnished downstairs, a large model train room that the stove is in, master bedroom, and a bathroom, all on cement floor (we used to have radiant heat in the floor but the pipes busted last April)
Just this past week, we have experienced the real first cold of winter here in NJ. The stove pattern now is on for the same short time (10-15 min) but then on again sometimes within the hour. The dealer informed me that running the stove like this makes it 'burn dirty' The downstairs that it heats is not well insulated so the stove heats it up to about 76-77 degree's and then it will fall to 67 (I currently have the thermostat set for 67-68) within at most 2 hrs to start the cycle all over again.
My question is, is my using the stove this way using more pellets and more wasteful than if I just put it on stove temp mode? How low can you make stove temp mode go on these stoves? Am I not using the stove in an efficient manner this way? I currently have the feed rate on 3 as per the dealer/installer.
Any advice? opinions are also very welcome! I hate to waste pellets on trial and error and am hoping someone else has some experience with this.
Rob
Andover, NJ