Started on the Okanagan DFs - my Quad MVAE likes them...

[PelletGirl]

... and so do I! There is almost no ash at all - it's amazing since the other pellets I've used had so much. And it does seem hotter to me (although I have no way of measuring so I can't be sure). It was 20 degrees out today but warm and toasty in my house. One negative though - it seems the glass gets dirty faster with these pellets for some reason. No biggie - still really like them.

 

[DMKNLD]

Hi Pellet Girl,

Did you adjust your fuel selection setting for your stove when you changed to the Oakies ? ie pg 18 in your manual: (broken link removed to http://hearthnhome.com/downloads/installManuals/7034_276.pdf)

If you're burning on low heat setting it will tend to deposit more ash on the glass as well.

Since my Quad has none of the bells and whistles of your MVAE, kap, or someone who has your stove model, may need to chime in on any other ideas.

To monitor your stove temps you can pick up a cheap infrared digital thermometer on-line, or go low / no tech like I do and hold a candy thermometer in the opening of the heat exchanger tubes to get a relative temp out put. The tubes will vary in temps so use the same one when you compare pellet brands.

 

[PelletGirl]

Not sure of the exact setting, but we have it on either medium or medium-high and the other usually on zero. Not sure if that makes much sense or if we need to adjust. I don't mind cleaning the glass a little more if the ash is so low and its so much warmer.

 

[DMKNLD]

Looking at your manual, in the wall control programming menu you have a fuel selection menu option for the type of fuel you're burning, ie hardwood, softwood, corn, sunflower seeds, etc. You're sure you have that set on 'softwood' ?

 

[PelletGirl]

We just cleaned the stove again and now it is set on softwood. We'll see how the glass is now.

 

[rexrules]

Same thing here with the dirty glass and okie douglas firs in my pdvc. Tons of heat and almost no ash so it really doesn't bother me.