Yea blocking the primary more will pull through the secondary more which would cause even higher secondary burn temp and robustness. From my understanding you’d have to do the secondary first then adjust primary. But obviously you’ve already got it figured out.
Initial Draft Readings for Pacific Energy Summit LE Insert - Cause for Concern?
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Here is a picture of the modified primary air lever trim panel. As mentioned the trim panel was pushing up on primary air lever which in turn caused a faulty opening in the primary air inlet. With this fix, the unit dropped about 200° exhaust temperature at fully cooked position. You can see the original holes from the factory and currently installed location where the screws are. I sure hope other Pacific energy summit LE insert owners find out about this.
EbS-P
Minister of Fire
The temperature probe I think is a 4-in deep probe. I have not pulled it out or in to see the difference in reading. I know and it's room temperature it reads dead nuts accurate.
I have the probe screwed into the side of the flu.
EbS-P
Minister of Fire
I’m thinking I had mine over an open part of the damper right in the hot gas stream. Where yours is all closed I’m guessing you wouldn’t see the big differences I’m seeing. I moved it out a bit and got much lower flue temps. So I left it there. Over draft problems solved right
