Just over a month ago, before I went out and began purchasing pellets, I read a lot of reviews online on various websites too numerous to list here. At any rate, on a number of occasions, I read reviews bashing xyz pellet brand because it "destroyed someone's stove" - this ranged from pellet dust clogging augers, insane amounts of ash jamming up mechanical parts and ruining burn pots, or pellets burning too hot and destroying a heat exchanger. I found myself pondering how compressed saw dust could single-handedly destroy a pellet stove.
My hypothesis is as follows: if the stove can't handle sub-par pellets, either because the pellets are too dirty/dusty, too moist, or contaminated by rat feces, I say the stove is either a piece of crap, or very poorly maintained or neglected by the owner. Even if a pellet sprays ash forcefully inside a stove when it burns, I can't fathom wood pellets, in and of themselves, wrecking a decent quality pellet stove. Thoughts?
My hypothesis is as follows: if the stove can't handle sub-par pellets, either because the pellets are too dirty/dusty, too moist, or contaminated by rat feces, I say the stove is either a piece of crap, or very poorly maintained or neglected by the owner. Even if a pellet sprays ash forcefully inside a stove when it burns, I can't fathom wood pellets, in and of themselves, wrecking a decent quality pellet stove. Thoughts?