Hey all, appreciate the support here! Our old Quadrafire Classic Bay 1200 has worked well the last couple years. However for whatever reason, this year I have had 4+ occurrences where it has smoked up badly back into the house.
Here is what happens and what I've gathered. We use the stove as supplemental heat so will typically run her for a few hours in the morning, shut her down til afternoon, empty the firepot with the pull rod into the ash pan, and restart again.
When we shut down later in the evening, the stove acts normally: pellets stop feeding, flame dies down, and the unit runs the exhaust for a while longer and then finally turns off. However, after that, sometimes we will smell a faint smoky smell that gets really bad if I dont act. I can see wisps of smoke leaking past the gaskets after the exhaust has turned off.
I open the ash pan to find large chunks of ash with embers in them, smoking almost like charcoal! They never die down. The ash pan is hardly 1/3 full so it's not like it's overfull.
I think it is these charcoal-like clinkers that are smoking off for hours and hours. What also doesnt help is that a ton of good pellets always bounce out of the firepot or miss, and fall into the ash pan, and will smoke on the hot embers below.
Any ideas on this? My wife is starting to lose faith in the stove and frankly I am too. Not sure how to combat this. I'll typically restart the exhaust a few times in hopes itll get rid of reminaining smoke, but the chunks just smoke for hours on end until I remove them entirely outside.
Thanks guys
Here is what happens and what I've gathered. We use the stove as supplemental heat so will typically run her for a few hours in the morning, shut her down til afternoon, empty the firepot with the pull rod into the ash pan, and restart again.
When we shut down later in the evening, the stove acts normally: pellets stop feeding, flame dies down, and the unit runs the exhaust for a while longer and then finally turns off. However, after that, sometimes we will smell a faint smoky smell that gets really bad if I dont act. I can see wisps of smoke leaking past the gaskets after the exhaust has turned off.
I open the ash pan to find large chunks of ash with embers in them, smoking almost like charcoal! They never die down. The ash pan is hardly 1/3 full so it's not like it's overfull.
I think it is these charcoal-like clinkers that are smoking off for hours and hours. What also doesnt help is that a ton of good pellets always bounce out of the firepot or miss, and fall into the ash pan, and will smoke on the hot embers below.
Any ideas on this? My wife is starting to lose faith in the stove and frankly I am too. Not sure how to combat this. I'll typically restart the exhaust a few times in hopes itll get rid of reminaining smoke, but the chunks just smoke for hours on end until I remove them entirely outside.
Thanks guys
