Happy holidays all,
Just thought I would share with you my experience with my stove, which is a Lennox PI40 also known as Ironstrike brand. Now I know very few people I have seen on this site have this stove. I have also seen people bash this stove because it is not a Harman. I was skeptical, even regretted purchasing this stove when I came to this site as I felt I made the wrong choice. I didn' research as I should have and saw everyone else boasting about different brands. Here is my thoughts on my stove after four seasons and about 13 tons. For me it has performed amazing. Only one auger jam with all different types of pellets, no shut downs, and all components, including igniter, are all original from purchase date. It keeps the wife and I warn and we are heating around 1000 sq ft. The only drawback people note is the feed rate and blower are on one knob and adjust together. this is not an issue for me as it has five levels and I barely run it past level three and have never had to run it on level 5. When I left the house this morning with it being 20 degrees out my house was at 71 and toasty on level 2. I am burnng 100 percent softwood Corinth which are ok and i have la crete next which are hotter. All I do to this stove is clean it once week for about 15 minutes, that includes vacumming inside, and running a brush between heat exhange tubes. Probably can go two weeks but i dont mind doing it. I also clean out flue ports about once every ton. I have it serviced by the store that sold it to me once a year in the spring. That is it. minimal work to keep this going. Extremely happy with this purchase. I dont have a tstat and dont need one. i run it 24/7 in the heart of the winter with no issues.
Just thought I would share with you my experience with my stove, which is a Lennox PI40 also known as Ironstrike brand. Now I know very few people I have seen on this site have this stove. I have also seen people bash this stove because it is not a Harman. I was skeptical, even regretted purchasing this stove when I came to this site as I felt I made the wrong choice. I didn' research as I should have and saw everyone else boasting about different brands. Here is my thoughts on my stove after four seasons and about 13 tons. For me it has performed amazing. Only one auger jam with all different types of pellets, no shut downs, and all components, including igniter, are all original from purchase date. It keeps the wife and I warn and we are heating around 1000 sq ft. The only drawback people note is the feed rate and blower are on one knob and adjust together. this is not an issue for me as it has five levels and I barely run it past level three and have never had to run it on level 5. When I left the house this morning with it being 20 degrees out my house was at 71 and toasty on level 2. I am burnng 100 percent softwood Corinth which are ok and i have la crete next which are hotter. All I do to this stove is clean it once week for about 15 minutes, that includes vacumming inside, and running a brush between heat exhange tubes. Probably can go two weeks but i dont mind doing it. I also clean out flue ports about once every ton. I have it serviced by the store that sold it to me once a year in the spring. That is it. minimal work to keep this going. Extremely happy with this purchase. I dont have a tstat and dont need one. i run it 24/7 in the heart of the winter with no issues.
