All,
I did a test run of the PP60 pellet stove today. I did the initial 30 minute break-in outside just to give it a run. As I did so I measured the power consumption.
When running the meter bounced between about 64 watts and 79 watts. This was surprising. The sticker on the back showed .9 amps running - this would be up around 112w at 125v.
When the igniter was running on start-up the wattage went up to about 303w. This didn't last long, just a few minutes. Pelpro states the start-up cycle can last up to 20 minutes. I imagine this depends on the pellets used. So maybe I got some good pellets. I think the fire flamed up within about 4-5 minutes of the igniter going. When you first start the stove from dead cold it runs the auger for 2 minutes (it goes real slow) to fill the fire pot.
The whole cycle I ran was right about 35 minutes. In that time I used .05kwh, or 50wh of power.
Doing the math - at 79w it would use 1.896kwh in a day, at 64w it would be 1.536kwh. Without doing a long-term measure of the actual consumption and having the power bounce between 64-79w when running, if I split the difference and call it an average of 71.5w that would be 1.716kwh in 24 hours.
The .05kwh in 35 minutes included the ignition cycle that pulled over 300 watts for a period of time so you can't simply extrapolate that .05kwh from 35 minutes up to 24 hours - that math would give you about 48 ignition cycles (one every 1/2hr) in that 24 hour period. I'd say you may only have one if you do a daily cleaning and run the stove consistently.
Needless to say, I am really surprised. That is significantly under what the sticker ratings were on the back of the stove.
The point of the measurements are with respect to the question of how much electricity a pellet stove consumes in the perspective of running off of alternative energy or back-up power. With that being the perspective - at the wattage this thing draws I could even run it off of my power inverter (it is an 800 watt inverter) - and even during an ignition cycle still have power left over. That is very surprising in a good way. It gives me an option to keep heat going if I am out back swapping generators, changing oil, or what not.
I did a test run of the PP60 pellet stove today. I did the initial 30 minute break-in outside just to give it a run. As I did so I measured the power consumption.
When running the meter bounced between about 64 watts and 79 watts. This was surprising. The sticker on the back showed .9 amps running - this would be up around 112w at 125v.
When the igniter was running on start-up the wattage went up to about 303w. This didn't last long, just a few minutes. Pelpro states the start-up cycle can last up to 20 minutes. I imagine this depends on the pellets used. So maybe I got some good pellets. I think the fire flamed up within about 4-5 minutes of the igniter going. When you first start the stove from dead cold it runs the auger for 2 minutes (it goes real slow) to fill the fire pot.
The whole cycle I ran was right about 35 minutes. In that time I used .05kwh, or 50wh of power.
Doing the math - at 79w it would use 1.896kwh in a day, at 64w it would be 1.536kwh. Without doing a long-term measure of the actual consumption and having the power bounce between 64-79w when running, if I split the difference and call it an average of 71.5w that would be 1.716kwh in 24 hours.
The .05kwh in 35 minutes included the ignition cycle that pulled over 300 watts for a period of time so you can't simply extrapolate that .05kwh from 35 minutes up to 24 hours - that math would give you about 48 ignition cycles (one every 1/2hr) in that 24 hour period. I'd say you may only have one if you do a daily cleaning and run the stove consistently.
Needless to say, I am really surprised. That is significantly under what the sticker ratings were on the back of the stove.
The point of the measurements are with respect to the question of how much electricity a pellet stove consumes in the perspective of running off of alternative energy or back-up power. With that being the perspective - at the wattage this thing draws I could even run it off of my power inverter (it is an 800 watt inverter) - and even during an ignition cycle still have power left over. That is very surprising in a good way. It gives me an option to keep heat going if I am out back swapping generators, changing oil, or what not.
