The stove in question: 1990 ish Whitfield Advantage
As I've posted before, I bought this stove used and cant seem to figure it out. I have had other, more pressing issues with it up until this point and finally have those dialed in (I think). The stove burns alright but needs to be cleaned multiple times a day. I'm typically emptying the bottom fire box 3-4 times per day and it is full of un burnt or semi burnt pellets. The burn grate fills up with the same semi burnt pellets on heat setting 2 in about 4 hours and needs to be emptied. I am under the impression that when burning correctly, pellets burn all the way down.
I have the manual pellet feed switch turned all the way down. I can't really leave it on heat setting 3 or higher because it fills up and smothers the flame. The vent pipe is straight back with no rise to an elbow outside of my house. I just took apart the combustion blower and cleaned it out and cleaned out the air room blower as well. I'm also having dirty gooey buildup on the heat exchanger tubes, and glass.
Any thoughts???? Help would be much appreciated Thanks in advance.
Ann Marie
As I've posted before, I bought this stove used and cant seem to figure it out. I have had other, more pressing issues with it up until this point and finally have those dialed in (I think). The stove burns alright but needs to be cleaned multiple times a day. I'm typically emptying the bottom fire box 3-4 times per day and it is full of un burnt or semi burnt pellets. The burn grate fills up with the same semi burnt pellets on heat setting 2 in about 4 hours and needs to be emptied. I am under the impression that when burning correctly, pellets burn all the way down.
I have the manual pellet feed switch turned all the way down. I can't really leave it on heat setting 3 or higher because it fills up and smothers the flame. The vent pipe is straight back with no rise to an elbow outside of my house. I just took apart the combustion blower and cleaned it out and cleaned out the air room blower as well. I'm also having dirty gooey buildup on the heat exchanger tubes, and glass.
Any thoughts???? Help would be much appreciated Thanks in advance.
Ann Marie