Fahrenheit Endurnace 50F Project

It does have a removable cover. I didn't take mine off this year but I played a lot between the exchanger tubes. My litherm gasket was stuck to the last year painted surface. So I left it alone. Hope it doesn't bite me later Stove is warming the house better now with the feed setting back to Fast feed/Normal dump. It dropped to 8F last night and house was at 70.5F with my feed setting way off
edit; little slow on the keyboard, searching for the degree symbol(alt0176 didn't work)

 

Sure enough, it's there. I have no idea how I never noticed that.

Just shows that even people who have had a particular stove for nearly three years can learn something here at FHC.

 

It does make the cleaning of the air tubes much easier but at a possible cost of a gasket. Small price to pay for clean tubes

 

Yeah, that looks a lot like mine.

I'd say I'm running the same control circuitry as you are.

Haven't been working on mine at all lately. Blew my back out on Saturday and just been lounging all week trying to get mobile enough to get back to work.

 

WOW!!! Makes the skiff of snow we got the other day look pretty mild. Guess I should be thankful all we got was a dusting!

 

I've noticed this with mine while setting it up and troubleshooting it. Anytime power is lost the fuel type has to be reset.

 

No way man! Giver. Like I said in my first post... I want everyone to add in their thoughts, ideas, issues etc!

Agreed! Makes it easy for people to search out!

 

Nope, not since the couple test fires I did. I've put about a bag of fuel through it.

Like I mentioned in the reply to your control board pic, I blew out my back on Saturday so I haven't been doing much. Last thing I did was tear it down in search of the air leak in the hopper, which I think I have fixed. I just need to get mobile enough to get the thing back together and fired up to test the fix!

 

Good post! I've been looking for a brush like that. Where did you find yours? I have my standard pellet vent brush, but want something different for cleaning that back area that you showed in your post.

 

I buy the material from my local supplier and make my own gaskets. I forget what the proper name is for the stuff but a sheet is cheap. So as long as you have a steady hand and patience, you can save a bit of $$$$.

 

When I was reading my manual, they list the settings for the cleaning cycle and feed as the fuel type setting. For the setting you use, which light on the LED display is lit up?

 

Different manufacturing date of furnace has different feed rate listing which means my #5 fast feed/normal dump could be a different # on yours.

 

True. Be curious to know. I run mine on #5 as well, which my manual calls "premium wood pellets/ cherry pits".

The following is quoted from an email between Matt from Fahrenheit Technologies and I, as I have been emailing him about my feed rate issue and hopper leak.

Ok. Feed rates are as follows:
Fuel Type 5
Heat Level 1: 2.0 seconds ON (+ Trim setting (See below)) / 8 seconds OFF
Heat Level 2: 2.8 seconds ON / 7.2 seconds OFF
Heat Level 3: 4 seconds ON / 6 seconds OFF
Heat Level 4: 5.2 seconds ON / 4.8 seconds OFF
Heat Level 5: 6.5 seconds ON / 3.5 seconds OFF

Auger Trim seconds added to ON time when Heat Level 1 is selected:
Trim 1: .1 second
Trim 2: .4 second
Trim 3: .7 second
Trim 4: 1 second
Trim 5: 1.3 seconds

When Auger Trim is added to heat level 1, the OFF-time is adjusted to make the overall Auger Cycle (Both ON and OFF times) equal 10 seconds.

 

Sweet. Thanks Dex. I'll go on the hunt and see if I can find a place to buy one up here.

 

I'd run a brush inside the heat exchanger tubes when I first got it, but my eyes never saw that cover. Maybe I had one to many when I was looking.

I'm curious to see how much crud I never got out when I was snaking a brush up on top of the tubes from inside the firebox. Sounds like a good Friday project.