I have had a harman p68 for 3 years now. I have messed around with differnet pellets and settings on the stove. Im burning 5 ton a year in a 2200 sqft ranch. Keeping the house around 70 degrees and eating 2 plus bags a day. I have been complaining about the eating thru pellets since day one. I have had it set on thermostat and room temp. Laat night was the first night i turned my stove on had the blower turned just under half way stove temp at 1 and feeder set at 1 and it thru a bag of pellets in 12 hours. Is this normal. The place where i got the stove from said that everything is normal. It was 30 degrees lastnight and i qas using my heat pump as well
Harman p68
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Sounds pretty normal to me. It would be really great if your house was poorly insulated.
railfanron
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Sounds like you need to work on more insulation and seal up some drafts. I'm burning a little less than a bag a day in a 2200 sq ft ranch. Family room where the stove is at is 70 on room temp auto and the other half of the house is 65. Until this last couple a days no propane used. Now propane furnace runs about 4 or 5 times a day for about 10 minutes each time. Last year I burned 3 tons of pellets and 500 gallons of propane for the whole year. That does the house heat and water heat plus my workshop heat when I use it. House is super insulated and I heated my workshop to 65 about 20 - 6 hour days last year.
Ron
Ron
Tonyray
Minister of Fire
I have a poorly insulated house..1928..lot's of windows...thermal glass but still more glass than walls.
on very cold days i go thru a bag in 11-12 rs.. running a P61A..
Bigger burnpot holds more burning pellets...less burn time.
on very cold days i go thru a bag in 11-12 rs.. running a P61A..
Bigger burnpot holds more burning pellets...less burn time.
I have a P68 in my basement for the house. I run it on stove temp (2 1/2) and feeder rate around 4. I am using 2.5 bags a day, ish. I am new to the game.....like Nov 1st install new. I thought that was a lot also until I asked my retail guy. He said that is pretty normal.