I have tried a few different pellets around the WI area and seem to have found the top two. Magic sparks and black hills gold. I set my ef3 at half auger and half blower and took multiple temperature readings of the heat exchangers using the two different pellet brands.
I was given the black hills gold by a good friend who swears by them. He was right, when burning black hills gold the heat exchangers run 8 to 12f degrees warmer then the magic sparks.
However, the black hills gold pellets are 1/8" to 1/4" shorter then the magic sparks which would account to less air volume in the auger as it runs up. So you would burn more shorter pellets then longer in the same time period.
So the stupid um-important question is why is one pellet longer then the other, just coincidence? Or a great marketing tool?
I was given the black hills gold by a good friend who swears by them. He was right, when burning black hills gold the heat exchangers run 8 to 12f degrees warmer then the magic sparks.
However, the black hills gold pellets are 1/8" to 1/4" shorter then the magic sparks which would account to less air volume in the auger as it runs up. So you would burn more shorter pellets then longer in the same time period.
So the stupid um-important question is why is one pellet longer then the other, just coincidence? Or a great marketing tool?