Folks;
'Just a comment on my pellet stove and another my girl friend purchased. Both were purchased within a week of each other in the end of September 2008.
As my fire place was really small I had to go with a free standing stove. I purchased the new Lyden model that they had recently come out with. It was just a different finish of an existing model they had. It is a very nice loooking stove. It's vented to the outside via the pipe going up the fireplace chimmey and was installed by the stove shop. My gfs stove was also professionally installed and is inserted int he fireplace.
I wish I could remember the brand my gf purchased I've e-mailed her and when I get it I'll add it to the message.
Her's is inserted into the fireplace and physically a larger stove. She uses the thermostat I use manual mode. The installers told me the theromstat doesn't work well with only 20 feet of wire so they didn't hook it up. I'm thinking of hooking it up as my stove seems to go out every day or two. With the thermostat I think it would relight when the pellets loaded up again and in manul mode it doesn't relight if it goes out.
Her's seems to be larger espicaly int he area where the ash accumilates and she has some automatic cleanout that kicks in every once in a while and empties some of the ash into the ash pan. I have to clean my smaller stove out every 2 to 3 days as it fills with ash she can wait an entire week or more. This is partly due to the larger area in hers where the ash builds up and partly due to the auto feature I mentioned. ANyways it is a big difference in favor of her stove.
Next is the actual heat out put. Her stove seems to heat a much larger area and uses a lot less pellets. I'm not sur eif this is due to the stoves or the differences in houses. We both had the same type of new windows installed this summer but my house is much older and my guess is less insulated. Whatever the reason she seems to get a lot more heat out into 3 or 4 rooms than my stove does and her house is more chopped up with walls where mine is more open whoch should be better suited for heat distribution. I rate her stove much better in the area of heat output and fuel conservation.
I've finally closed the room off (used plastic to seal a large window opening to the kitchen and a plastic shower curtain to close the archway to the living room) where the stove is in my house and just heat that area as I spend most of my time there. It heats up that area pretty fast and well but its only about 24' x 14' is my guess.
My glass gets very dirty and it happens fast even when I play around with the air setting which does help some what. Her glass stays fairly clean for a week while mine is very dirty within a day or two. After 4 or 5 days if I don't clean th eglass it sometimes can be a tough job espically if the air restrictor was a little closed up too much. Again big in her favor.
Noise mine seems much more quite running than hers at times we really have to turn the TV volume up. Advantage Lyden.
Controls she sets the therostat and thats it job done. Mine I find I have to play with all the settings and the lights used to show u waht the fan speed and feed rate are poor espically the fan speed. Advantage big time her stove.
Overall I'm a little disappointed with the Lyden it's not a bad stove just it seems to under perform in almost all areas compared to my gf's stove and it requires much more maintenance. If I didn't have my gf's stove to compare it to I would probably fell the Lyden was a decent stove and rate it maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10. However after being able to compare it to my gfs stove I'd probably rate hers a 8 out of 10 and the Lyden a 5 or 6.
To compare houses mine is a ranch about 1600 sq feet. I keep all three bed room doors at the far end of the house closed.
Hers is a two floor house probably about 2400 - 2800 sq feet and she doesn't close any of the rooms off.
'Just a comment on my pellet stove and another my girl friend purchased. Both were purchased within a week of each other in the end of September 2008.
As my fire place was really small I had to go with a free standing stove. I purchased the new Lyden model that they had recently come out with. It was just a different finish of an existing model they had. It is a very nice loooking stove. It's vented to the outside via the pipe going up the fireplace chimmey and was installed by the stove shop. My gfs stove was also professionally installed and is inserted int he fireplace.
I wish I could remember the brand my gf purchased I've e-mailed her and when I get it I'll add it to the message.
Her's is inserted into the fireplace and physically a larger stove. She uses the thermostat I use manual mode. The installers told me the theromstat doesn't work well with only 20 feet of wire so they didn't hook it up. I'm thinking of hooking it up as my stove seems to go out every day or two. With the thermostat I think it would relight when the pellets loaded up again and in manul mode it doesn't relight if it goes out.
Her's seems to be larger espicaly int he area where the ash accumilates and she has some automatic cleanout that kicks in every once in a while and empties some of the ash into the ash pan. I have to clean my smaller stove out every 2 to 3 days as it fills with ash she can wait an entire week or more. This is partly due to the larger area in hers where the ash builds up and partly due to the auto feature I mentioned. ANyways it is a big difference in favor of her stove.
Next is the actual heat out put. Her stove seems to heat a much larger area and uses a lot less pellets. I'm not sur eif this is due to the stoves or the differences in houses. We both had the same type of new windows installed this summer but my house is much older and my guess is less insulated. Whatever the reason she seems to get a lot more heat out into 3 or 4 rooms than my stove does and her house is more chopped up with walls where mine is more open whoch should be better suited for heat distribution. I rate her stove much better in the area of heat output and fuel conservation.
I've finally closed the room off (used plastic to seal a large window opening to the kitchen and a plastic shower curtain to close the archway to the living room) where the stove is in my house and just heat that area as I spend most of my time there. It heats up that area pretty fast and well but its only about 24' x 14' is my guess.
My glass gets very dirty and it happens fast even when I play around with the air setting which does help some what. Her glass stays fairly clean for a week while mine is very dirty within a day or two. After 4 or 5 days if I don't clean th eglass it sometimes can be a tough job espically if the air restrictor was a little closed up too much. Again big in her favor.
Noise mine seems much more quite running than hers at times we really have to turn the TV volume up. Advantage Lyden.
Controls she sets the therostat and thats it job done. Mine I find I have to play with all the settings and the lights used to show u waht the fan speed and feed rate are poor espically the fan speed. Advantage big time her stove.
Overall I'm a little disappointed with the Lyden it's not a bad stove just it seems to under perform in almost all areas compared to my gf's stove and it requires much more maintenance. If I didn't have my gf's stove to compare it to I would probably fell the Lyden was a decent stove and rate it maybe a 6 or 7 out of 10. However after being able to compare it to my gfs stove I'd probably rate hers a 8 out of 10 and the Lyden a 5 or 6.
To compare houses mine is a ranch about 1600 sq feet. I keep all three bed room doors at the far end of the house closed.
Hers is a two floor house probably about 2400 - 2800 sq feet and she doesn't close any of the rooms off.
