To everyone (especially those in the bitterly cold north) How many hours does your pellet stove run on a average winter day. Does anyone run theirs 24/7 (shutting down only to clean). Please advise
Pellet Stove Usage (Hours Per Day)
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Enigma869
Feeling the Heat
For the past three years, the only time my stove gets shut down is to clean it or if the outside temperature is keeping the inside temperature warm enough to not need to run the stove (very unlikely, this time of the year, in this part of the country). I definitely run mine 24/7. Just the thought of turning it off makes me cold!
John C.
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Phoenix Hatchling
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iceguy4
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Any idea on the cost of electricity to run it???? Pennies a day? A dollar a day? I am merely curious
john193
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I can tell you my stove uses about 27 watts of electricity when running; 380 at startup. Mine runs probably 20hours a day on workdays and 24 on weekends (the stove steps the temp down while we are at work).
I calculated a while back that my stove uses something like 0.89 kW a day. At 15 cents a kW here its costing me 13.35 cents a day...or about 4 dollars a month.
h2ochild
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robert65
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Hoot23
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jhskick
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RKS130
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reallyte
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johneh
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jdinny
Burning Hunk
We just installed our P43 on New Years day, and it's been running ever since the initial fire up.
My plans are to run it 24/7 until it's not needed anymore. Seeing the LP delivery truck passing right by our driveway makes me all warm and tingly
We have all the t-stats in the house turned off except my 90 yo moms, and our sons.
It was 4 degrees with blowing snow last night, and the coldest part of the house was 67.
I'm loving this stove.
Here's some pics of the install if anyone is interested. http://www.pbase.com/champ3jd/harman_p43_pellet_stove_install&page=all
My plans are to run it 24/7 until it's not needed anymore. Seeing the LP delivery truck passing right by our driveway makes me all warm and tingly
We have all the t-stats in the house turned off except my 90 yo moms, and our sons.It was 4 degrees with blowing snow last night, and the coldest part of the house was 67.
I'm loving this stove.
Here's some pics of the install if anyone is interested. http://www.pbase.com/champ3jd/harman_p43_pellet_stove_install&page=all
MacP
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I found the same thing when I was pouring Vermont wood pellets into a bucket. It's happened a couple of times. Luckily it never made it into the hopper.
MacP
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I used to turn it off before leaving for work, but I gave up on that. It seemed it would use just as much pellets to get the house back to the desired temperature when I got home from work. Depending on the temperature I try to let it run out of pellets in order to do a weekly cleaning. Other than that, 24/7 here.
MtDew
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Wooden Head
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2 Stoves, Santa Fe and Castile, one in basement other on main floor. Run main floor 16 hrs/day, Run basement 12 hrs/day when below 20 and 8hrs/weekends when above 20.
Bioburner
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Basement Harman that does the brunt of the work only shut down to clean when the weather gets above 20F, try for monthly. Elena upstairs in dining-kitchen usually only runs for an hour in AM and Supper time but is having to be fire up a bit more with this extreme cold to keep the upstairs above 68. It has a weekly cleaning. Yesterdays high-9
QuadraBurner
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