Harman Shut Down Time

[MikeinRI]

Wife calls me today insisting the stove wont shut down. She had to leave for work and it was around 60 minutes. I gave here the ok to pull the plug.

Timed it tonight and it was about 70 minutes. What's your shut down time till the blower turns off?

 

[The Grintch]

60-70 minutes. I thought there was a problem until it shut itself off.

 

[MikeinRI]

I've had it almost a year and never thought it took that long. more like 45 but I never timed it. I know if its close to going off if I open the door it will shut it down.

 

[Bioburner]

I usually pull the plug if I remember after 15 minutes or so and plug back in. Their worried about ash bin smoldering and possible auger burn back.

 

[tsmith]

Those are normal shut down times, they take awhile to cool down.

 

[Justin M]

Why not just leave it running? Set it to your desired temp. and let it do its job.

 

[MikeinRI]

Just ran in for a bit in the morning to take the chill out.

 

[Bioburner]

Why not just leave it running? Set it to your desired temp. and let it do its job.

Don't like the idea of sucking cold outside air to cool the stove down and having to heat it back up. Yea we are a bit tight

 

[Justin M]

Don't like the idea of sucking cold outside air to cool the stove down and having to heat it back up. Yea we are a bit tight

Sounds like you need an OAK.

 

[MikeinRI]

I'm still thinking about putting the vent pipe all the way outside.

 

[Bioburner]

Sounds like you need an OAK.

Have one. It's cold outside.

 

[Tdamico]

I've never timed mine. Yes, seems to take forever, but probably about 45-50 mins!

 

[rickwai]

After that period of time (70 min) do you still have a small fire? Or is the comb. fan just still running?

 

[Harman Lover 007]

IIRC correctly its not a "timed" setting. The combustion fan runs until the ESP senses the exhaust path temp is 90 degrees or less. That can take a variable amount of time depending on how long and at what level the stove was being run.

 

[john193]

It is best to leave the engineering to the engineers. Once the stove turns off it will equilibrate with the temperature of the room, not the outside. Besides, how do you quantify such a savings?

 

[nayslayer]

you must unplug your pc instead of a soft shutdown too...lol

 

[joescho]

If the fans do eventually stop, then I would tend to think they are just doing their job. I never really noticed how long my Mt. Vernon runs after a shutdown. You may be worrying about nothing.

 

[ChandlerR]

Just timed mine. Push stop button, room fan goes to high and auger stops. In less than five minutes there is no visible flame. The Proof of Fire switch keeps the fans running until the temp in the exhaust drops to, I think, 120 degrees. That takes, when running on low, about 20 minutes.