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Discussion in 'Pellet Stoves, Pellet Fireplaces, Pellet Furnaces' started by brokenwing, Jan 10, 2016.

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  1. Russell

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    and I like to run on med this time of year.
     
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  2. golf66

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    Erh, um, uh, that is subject to debate. I had a Quad 1200 that made a baseball-sized clinker every day and required two shutdowns regardless of what brand of pellets were burned. Dane's P61A would burn gravel if that's what I put in the hopper. Scraping the firepot while the stove is running is one thing, having to shut it down completely to drop a clinker is another.
     
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    yeah, i think my popcorn tag would show i was jesting. (playfully trolling)
    it's an age old debate.

    fwiw, my heatilator has the same burn pot as the quad, and i have never had a clinker.
    and with the weak chinese motor (they started using those on both the quads and the heatilators at some point) replaced with a nice gleason avery, it's an absolute dream.

    i have said elsewhere on the internet (cough cough) that the harman would be a range rover and the heatilator a subaru.
    that being said, i drive a subaru and have a heatilator and am delighted with both.

    honestly though, i love that i have to do basically nothing to the burn pot but pull the cleaning rod once in a while.
    and probably half of those are just habit and not really even needed.
     
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    I don't have any of those issues with my CB1200 . Occasionally some small deposits in the fire pot but I just pull the clean out handle once a day and they drop to the ash pan , but I do run soft wood premium pellets .
     
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    yea, scraping of mine takes all of 20 seconds per week, WITH the fire burning....what a pain, huh?
     
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    :popcorn:Goes hand in hand with a entertaining story:whistle:
     
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    Yeah, I had to get the damm scraping tool out last night-I was exhausted :)
     
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    yep, know what you mean, gbreda! My right arm is noticeably larger from all that scraping I do every week....I am gonna have to switch to my left an deven things out. :pain:
     
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    I see this thread end up in cool aide land. I can bet I touch mine far less than them tin cans.

    Call me when you all no touchie feelie(no open door at all) for over a ton. Bet you can't! :p
     
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    oh, I can......give me a good fir pellet, like last year....emptied the ashes 3 times all winter! P61 FTW!!
    (I just tend to not recommend ignoring your stove........not a good plan.....even Jay's)
     
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    Do you still have to scrape with the DF's
     
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    With a fir pellet I could likely go all season and never open the door. I have yet to open mine with the sets(have not counted) and 20 some odd bags of MWP through it so far.

    And I can still see through the glass, Bet you can't after only a few bags burned!!
     
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    Yeah...That's probably from pulling the scraper!! :whistle:
     
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    10-15 bags of last year's Geneva, about 10 bags of MWP and now several Lacrete LaCrete is only giving a small amount of haze on part of the glass. But I will admit that the OCD in me still wipes it.

    I know someone who hasnt touched their glass yet on an XXV using MWP and FSU and you can still see through it.

    :p
     
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    Maybye LW can provide you with a years worth of fir to test that theory :D
     
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    Shhh, I was workin at him. Figured he might bite. :D
     
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    well, depends, but on the North Idaho's, no
     
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    remember,i am burning Doug Fir....glass not cleaned yet this year, so would be a foolish bet, you'd lose.....I will snap a pic when I get home tonight....Ive only burned a bit over a ton so far though.....not really a fair comparison though, North Idaho fir versus Maine......like comparing Roseanne Barr to Giada Dilaurentis.......
     
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    good try! I am too dang cheap! Im mostly Irish, but have heard there was an errant Scot in the woodpile at some point!
     
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    he wont bite
     
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