North Country Softie's Updated review

[Phil Do's fire.]

I reported on November 17, 2107 a review of these pellets. Here is an update,

This is the first time since I have owned my stove in 23,000 + hours that I had to make changes!

• Excessive moisture in pellet, open bags for 3 days helps
• Pellets are very small, blocks off air holes in burnpot
• Turn down feed rate if possible, I slowed the burn rate 21% .
• Lowering the burn rate also lowered heat output, stove runs much longer
• Increase combustion blower speed
• Pellet is still on ashy side but now burn well.

I am lucky that with my Italian pellet stove I can alter pellet feed rates and combustion blower by 3% at a time. Most pellet stove's especially older units, give a person a 1-5 setting which could be to little or to much of a rate.

I would be very cautious if your stove doesn't like ashy pellets and has sub-standard combustion blower rate.

Updated rating is 3 stars!

 

[Pete Zahria]

Been using them in a cheapie Englander in my shop,
and they are working fine...
24 hours on a bag... maybe a little more ashy than used to,
but no problems..
For around the same money as BBS stuff (around here).... way better...

Dan

 

[Phil Do's fire.]

Pete, New Englanders may work well i your shop stove but when you compare heat output and ash content a good softie blows them away. It's worth the extra $$'s to buy a good pellet when heating a living area. New Englandersm Stove Chow and Currans are the lowest heat and highest ash output out there!