Any "Harmies" switched modes this freeze?

My 2 cents as a newbie..
As they say in show business," Let's make a Splash and see if we drown"

Question actually is, Has any Harman users switched from " Set in stone" Room mode
to Stove mode since this Freeze has hit us past couple weeks?
My 90 yr old not well Insulated house is really not conducive to using room mode Auto or manual in a deep freeze as I know my heat loss is quicker & greater due to surroundings...
Have 12 windows in just 3 downstairs rooms here. 26 total..Actually there is less wall than windows..
why was it built that way back then? who knows... prob using coal or gas and it was cheap back in the 20's.
Anderson windows? check.. double pane? check..
Just would not pay to insulated the not wide walls in between this house of glass..
Great views all around but not for keeping lot of heat in..
anyways,
switched to Stove temp 4 days ago and deff makes a difference...
have been listening to the augar and pellet drops quite a bit and seems that once the ESP is up to par,
the augar is only turning sometimes 20 and sometimes 30 seconds even though I have my feed rate at #4.. bumped it up a bit to 4.5 and still 20- 30 seconds auger turns... set at #5/Half on temperature dial.. further proof that a Harman will ONLY use what it needs to maintain a setting.
keeping our main room at 73 degrees and warm air goes up the stairs..
keeps the 2 floor around 64 at nights which is good sleeping weather..
btw room temp guys, I haven't dis-owned ya...
soon as the weather gets back to steady upper 30's days and above I will be back on Room mode manual then Auto as the days warm up even more.
is just that it ramps up/down way to much in this brutal cold and uses more pellets due to my house layout and the steady Burn of stove mode seems better with less pellets used......I;m sure a tight azz house would do fine in room mode.. even Auto mode..
The Harman Technology of Room/auto works excellent but not all house are equal so not all will benefit from it..at least when living in Syberia weather for a month.!!
Last year I expirimented all winter with feed rates/modes/ probe placements etc.. Wife called it Messin around .
this year I had it down, left it alone until Hell froze over which it did.. !!!

 

so much here to comment on...

Tully put his finger on it when he mentioned the amount of windows in the house......Andersens have an R value of around 3.....so, yea, big holes in the walls.

When it gets really cold, its not a bad idea to try Stove Temp mode....the stove basically ignores the room sensing probe, and takes all readings from the ESP....what that gives you is a constant burn, depending on yer temp setting. So, basically, the stove will pump out a constant heat, rather than the up and down of room temp mode. Figure you ant some of this heat further away....and then figure in that when its really cold, heat loss will cause the furthest reaches of the home to cool faster than the heat can get there thru convection, so, keeping a constant heat might work better, although, you will burn mo' pellets.

The Feed rate is simply a MAXIMUM timing, and, when set correctly, you shouldn't ever reach it.....a setting of 4 basically means that in a worst case scenario, the stove can feed for 40 secs/min.....which is a lot. So, since youre demand was lower than your setpoint of 3-4, yea, you wouldn't see a change. Try this though.....set it at 1.......see what happens......in this case, likely your demand will be greater than your setting, and, Im betting with a feed of only 10 secs/min, on a cold night like tonight, youre gonna get cold. Some people set it at 1 thinking it will save pellets.......nope......all youre doing is throttling down your max......can get away with this if its warmish out, but not when its cold.

 

yep..
pretty much Splains it...

 

I'm a stove temp guy , I like the steady constant heat . Feed rate set at 4 and temp set at 4 for most winter days, the house will stay 70* +
and I get 24 + hours / bag.

With this arctic blast bumped the stove rate up to 5.5 to keep the house at that 70* , getting around 20+ hours / bag. That's what works for me

 

right behind ya bumpin up the numbers..
gettin less per bag though.around 14 hrs but not insulated as my OP stated..

 

I can see needing stove temp in some homes. My house is so tight I cannot slam a door closed without it bouncing back . New windows and insulated inside and out so the temps swings are minimal. No reason for me to go stove temp.

 

I'm a stove temp guy as well, but I do use room temp at night and when I'm at work. When I'm home, it's always stove temp for me.

 

Stove temp. set on 3, about 2 bags a day. downstairs is about 76-80 with thermometer in another room. upstairs in the low 70's and will drop to 65 in sub zero temps. Wife has hissy fits and puts the furnace on upstairs to 70 even though she is seldom up there. furnace will run some off and on then. Everyone who comes to visit complains of the heat. My wife sits with covered with a blanket.

 

I think she should wear a snow suit!

 

our 2nd floor thermostat stays off all winter BUT, Did kick it on last night just so those pipes coming from the basement got a warmup.. Zero lows..
Basement was mid 40's so don't know why I was so concerned..

 

Stove temp/Auto here as well. Heating from the basement up, once we hit 24/7 burning season that is the only setting for us.