does any one know if my eanglender pellet stove will over heat if i shut of the fan that blow into the room?
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jim c said:
Yes it will overheat if you manage to shut the convection blower off.
I don't know if the stove will stop you from doing that however.
If you manage to shut that fan off I hope your high temperature shut off system is functional.
jim c said:
Yes, it probably will overheat...it's not designed to run without that fan being on.....don't know why you'd want to shut it off in the first place. :question:
Im only a wood burner here but I thought the main advantage of a pellet stove was that you can turn the complete unit off and on when needed and use a T-stat to cycle them. Does yours have to be manually started? Not understanding why you dont just turn it off. Is it an older model? OK Ill go back to my forum room now.
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kinsman stoves said:
Me too.
The OP could always turn the thing off, run it on a tstat, open a window, etc....
CZARCAR,
I would suspect that after a certain amount of time the high limit cutoff would indicate an overheat condition and shut the stove down.
The OP can PM Mike Holton (stoveguy2esw) from Englander who is a member of this forum or call Englander Tech. I also remember seeing that they recommend not setting the convection fan to less than the heat level and that some of the control boards won't allow that to take place.
Like I said I hope your high temperature handling system works if you manage to shut that fan off.
I would suspect that after a certain amount of time the high limit cutoff would indicate an overheat condition and shut the stove down.
The OP can PM Mike Holton (stoveguy2esw) from Englander who is a member of this forum or call Englander Tech. I also remember seeing that they recommend not setting the convection fan to less than the heat level and that some of the control boards won't allow that to take place.
Like I said I hope your high temperature handling system works if you manage to shut that fan off.
CZARCAR said:
You can do whatever floats your boat, just remember when the brown stuff hits the rotating device you'll have no recourse and perhaps no life let alone a house.
My neighbors new 2200 sq ft model Englander pellet stove was running for at least 2 weeks before I discovered that the distr. fan (blower)was not running. Being new to pellet stoves , it never occured to him since the stove was running pretty hot and put out plenty of heat by simple convection only.
It never did shut down but that was early in the heating season and the stove was not run at higher temps.
I notified Englanders and they forwarded a new blower. Great service in my book!
It never did shut down but that was early in the heating season and the stove was not run at higher temps.
I notified Englanders and they forwarded a new blower. Great service in my book!
I can't imagine why they would give us the option of shutting the room blower off if there is not a fail safe to start the blower before over heating. Although I have not confirmed this I imagine Mike will let us know, along with the hopper lid topic that has popped up.
PunKid8888 said:
I think you'll find that there is a failsafe and it will shut the stove down if it is working correctly. Please note the weasel words, "if it is working correctly", which is the key point. If you disable 1/2 of the excess heat handling capability of the stove you have removed a large portion of the safety factor that is available to you.
Putting the stove on a tstat is better.
the room fan should not be turned off , we have a "0" seting there which is handy if we need to hear somthing else running in the stove that the room fan may mask , but as a rule , never run the room fan below the heat range or the stove will overtemp and stop feeding. to our poster, i pose a question , how long is a bag of fuel lasting , i may be able to slow it down a bit more for you. i'd rather do that than run without the room fan
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