New Fahrenheit Endurance owner, a couple questions

I question this as well..

The hopper has a rated "capacity" but his Grain is probably very light weight and also small, which means a very good feed rate and a fully packed auger.

10 lbs an hour? That's 240 lbs a day (or 2 full hoppers! This hopper is pretty big)

I burn roughly a bag a day, but I also burn wood majority of the time. I don't have a wood fire currently because of warmer temps. But tomorrow the wood stove will be lit.

 

I didn't think that a bushel of grain was heavier than a bushel of corn..

So that makes sense. It's probably closer to 140 like you said.

Half a hopper is about 70-75 then. If you're running 24/7 on level 3, then it's just over 3 lbs an hour.

 

Wow!! 2 full hoppers!! Yeah, that's a lot!!

 

I'm at about a bag a day.

What fuel setting are you using?

The lower you go from Premium pellet (#10), the sooner it autocleans. When it autocleans, it ramps up to level 5 for 30 minutes and burns a lot of pellets.

Maybe try going up a setting or two. No need to clean the pot every 4 hrs, if it can make it 8 hrs before it needs it.

Even with a 50/50 mix of corn to pellets I still run #10 (Premium pellet). Because that is the longest interval between cleaning time, and it's only 8-9 hrs.

 

Flame won't differ from 1 to 10.

Air flow is dependent on your intake/damper setting

What differs is how many times it cleans a day. I wish I could make mine go 24 hrs on pellets. But 8-9 is the max.

I promise you, you can move up at least 1 or 2 settings.... If not more.

You will use less fuel because of less cleanings. Which will mean you have to load it less.

 

You have an older unit, but the principal is the same. It will go longer between cleanings, with a higher setting.


So if yiu are running on 3? Then a step up to 4 may show a reduction in usage. The more it cleans? The more it will eat fuel as it burns on High (heat level 5) for 30 minutes or better. If it's cleans every 3 or 4 hrs now, you are cleaning 6-8 times a day. If level 4 is about 6-7 hrs, that is around 3-4 times a day. You cut that level 5 time in half.

The combustion blower is always running the same speed. Your damper is what controls the air, unless the furnace is idling at level 1 (then your trim settings come into play).

 

You are talking about your heat level. I am talking about the fuel selection. No need to run on heat level 5 if 4 is sufficient.

You are probably running on Premium pellet anyways, so don't change a thing..

On the older units? Maybe this holds true. I have ran on all of my levels and me out temp at my plenum never changed. The only thing that changed? Is the cleaning cycle. But our furnaces have different control boards and burn pots, so a lot has changed.

 

I think a lot of people are reading things wrong.

You are correct, but Triple A worded it differently. He is saying that at level 3 the stat never reaches the desired temp. So it runs and runs. Where level 4 he meets desired temp.

So he thought I was talking about the heat setting, when in fact, I have been talking about fuel setting. So he thought he should go to 5.

You should only use the highest heat setting necessary to satisfy the stat. Any higher and the room may get to temp faster, but you are heating the house quickly, which means you are not getting a good "soak" temperature. A slightly lower heat setting will run a little longer, but it will heat all the items in the room before the stat is satisfied. Which means the furnace will have a longer break and not work as hard overall.