Is this common?

Gas,

Do you see what coming over to the dark side entails?

 

Hilarious JTake11

 

I still have my boiler! I get to keep my foot firmly on this side while I venture into the dark side. Light. Dark. Light. Dark. Light..........

Hey. Is there a certain time that triggers the stove to go into shut down mode? Should I just turn it off, let it go through shut down when I want to load? Or come up with a creative way of keeping the button down? You know, pick my nose and use some of that super duper sticky stuff I can get out of there to hold it down temporarily, then when done filling just yank it off of there and throw it at the wall. I can always find it later.

 

Same here.

 

When it stops seeing proof of fire it'll go into shutdown. Honestly, if you do what sub said or just be quick about it, you should be good to go. "Learning curve" lol

 

You shouldn't have to shut the stove down to load the hopper. Hell with my stove, you don't have to close the latch on the hopper, so if you just close it between bags, you shouldn't have a problem.

 

When it gets colder out and your stove isn't "idling", you shouldn't have a problem at all.

 

1. Open your pellet bag or bags before opening the hopper.

2. Open the hopper, lift a bag up and dump it in.

3. Close hopper for a short while.

4. Repeat starting at step 2 until the hopper is full.

 

This makes me wonder if I even did it. Maybe it was one of the other reasons stated earlier in thread. Time will tell.

The stove goes into idle? Huh?

 

Well no, the stove doesn't go into "idle', at least yours doesn't, but you're running it at lower heat setting than you will be later when it's colder. When you're running on a higher heat setting, your fire will be larger and it will take longer to die out should you be slow loading the hopper.

 

Okay. I leave it on 2 and 2. I have it in a camp and am just running it to keep it around 45 or so. It is currently keeping the camp around 58-60 degrees at these temps. So I am hoping this setting will provide enough heat most of the time. Maybe I will have to go to 3 and 3 after it starts to really cool down. Lots to learn.

 

It will take the stove longer to cool off when it is fired at a higher fuel rate, the stove enters out of fuel shutdown when the proof of fire systems says hey I'm cold so the fire can't be burning.

 

As it gets colder, you might try leaving the heat setting on 2 and just increasing the blower speed. A lot of people swear by high CFM.

 

The last two post possibly contradict each other. I have considered, at someone's suggestion, setting the blower speed on higher. For instance set it at 2 and 3. However, according to last post the stove may think it is too cool and then shut off?

 

FWIW....I always have my blower higher than the heat.....and my stove is still VERY hot like that.....but I have a tube heat exchanger and I do believe that has something to do with it too.

 

No, Smokey and I are talking 2 different things. I'm just saying that when it gets colder, and you only want to keep the camp at 45, instead of turning up the heat level, try increasing the blower fan first. That will work for a little while. He was talking about loading the hopper.

 

My post was about the stove shutting down when the fuel supply is intterupted, there are two possible shutdown sittuations when you add fuel to the stove, one is the vacuum sensor shuts down the stove do to loss of proper pressure differences in the system, it would be rare but not impossible for the lid being open to cause this unless the fuel level was really low or when the fire is burning so low that a small interruption in feed causes the proof of fire system to say sorry I'm cold so the fire ain't there so shutdown.

Anything that causes the proof of fire system to think there is no fire will cause the stove to enter shutdown. This includes burning with little fuel being fed and a lot of heat being extracted. Remember opening the lid stops the fuel feed and if the proof of fire system is seeing just enough temperature to continue operating the stove with the stove at a high convection blower rate and a low fuel feed rate it just might drop below that magic temperature.

 

Interesting. Thanks.

 

Thanks all. Appreciated. I will follow your advice.