I am a newbie pellet stove owner. I put down a hefty deposit on a Harmon P68 in early June and went through the same thing that everyone else did waiting months for a stove to become available. Finally received a call that I could have a P61a in "honey brown color" for the same price as the P68 so I jumped on it as I had 5 tons of pellets sitting in my shed since June that I wanted to burn. I also figured that there was not much difference between the two as far as performance.
I had the stove installed a week ago. Everything was working great for the first few days. I then began noticing that there were larger differences between the room sensor setting and what the actual temperature tracked in the room - If I had the stove set for 70 degrees, the room might vary from a low of 66 to a high of 74. I did not think much of that and figured that it was probably normal. This past Sunday night I got a real scare. I had the stove set in room temp mode for the usual 70 degrees; when I woke up dehydrated at 5:00 am and stumbled down the stairs, the room was glowing; the stove was roaring hot! My digital thermometer on the other side of the room said 89 degrees (by the way the outside temp was 29 degrees), the stove was burning hotter than I thought it could get. I could not step on the hearth pad in my bare feet; it was simply too hot to stand it. After turning the stove to off, it continued to feed pellets for 15 minutes before the fire began to drop off and finally went out.
Has anyone else had an experience like the one I just described? I called my dealer and he is researching it with Harmon. His first instinct is that it was caused by a faulty room sensor (the part that plugs into the back of the stove). The stove seems to run fine in the stove temperature mode, and I would not dare run it again in room sensor mode until this is resolved. It also makes me a little leary leaving the stove unattended now. I don't know if it could have gotten hot enough to start a house fire, but I'm telling you that stove, hearth pad, and surroundings were hot enough to be worried. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
I had the stove installed a week ago. Everything was working great for the first few days. I then began noticing that there were larger differences between the room sensor setting and what the actual temperature tracked in the room - If I had the stove set for 70 degrees, the room might vary from a low of 66 to a high of 74. I did not think much of that and figured that it was probably normal. This past Sunday night I got a real scare. I had the stove set in room temp mode for the usual 70 degrees; when I woke up dehydrated at 5:00 am and stumbled down the stairs, the room was glowing; the stove was roaring hot! My digital thermometer on the other side of the room said 89 degrees (by the way the outside temp was 29 degrees), the stove was burning hotter than I thought it could get. I could not step on the hearth pad in my bare feet; it was simply too hot to stand it. After turning the stove to off, it continued to feed pellets for 15 minutes before the fire began to drop off and finally went out.
Has anyone else had an experience like the one I just described? I called my dealer and he is researching it with Harmon. His first instinct is that it was caused by a faulty room sensor (the part that plugs into the back of the stove). The stove seems to run fine in the stove temperature mode, and I would not dare run it again in room sensor mode until this is resolved. It also makes me a little leary leaving the stove unattended now. I don't know if it could have gotten hot enough to start a house fire, but I'm telling you that stove, hearth pad, and surroundings were hot enough to be worried. Any thoughts would be appreciated.
