Who's firing up the stove tonight ?

Room temp set at 70 , low fan in the unfinished basement for the overnight. Upstairs/1st floor was about 60 degrees with a little help on the 2nd floor from the oil monster. Harman ate about a half bag of MWP-Not bad at all since it was 3 deg outside this am.

LaCretes are now in the hopper and the difference is very noticeable, even running low fan. Burned much less than a half bag since 7am

 

First time using the stove in the real cold..
Wanted to have the furnace (FHW) kick on every now and then,
to get a little circulation and heat to the extremities.

Ran the stove at feed rate 1-7/8.... temp at 75° ....blower almost 1/2 way...
room temp/auto ign. Doug Fir pellets.
Woke up to 2° outside 68° inside the main room.
Extremities were a little cool.
Stove is a cellar dweller.
Got a baseline on what to do next time.... still learning the stove..
Like it so far...

Dan

 

If you are like me and the cellar is unfinished, running the stove constant 24/7 will yield far better results. It takes too long to get the basement heated and some good temps upstairs.

That wont happen here yet either as the temps are going back into the mid 30's and 40 mark in a day or so. Thats ok by me as oil is still very low at 1.69/gallon.

 

The stove does run constant........
That is why the feed rate is so low.
This way, the stove runs constant, but also, the blower runs all the time
at the same speed. It does that, because the temp sensor will never be satisfied.
So the end result, is that the stove is putting out nearly the same temperature
all the time, and blowing the same all the time...
This way, I can get the furnace to kick on, because the stove doesn't know
whether it is running or not. the two thermostats are not in conflict with each other...

Dan

 

Don't you have a Harman?

 

yes

 

Running it stove mode would do the same thing, wouldn't it?

 

So basically, you starve it of fuel to get a constant low temp? What stove is this? Room Temp/It sounds like a Harman and if so, why not run Stove Temp/ Auto to achieve the same result by design?

But if it works, thats great !

 

Except the blower won't run the same speed all the time.
It may not run at all if the temp setting is below 5, I believe..
But even if it did run exactly the same, I'm not sure that one would
be any better than the other... if they were the same...

Dan

 

subsailor -great minds think alike

 

That is Stove Temo/Manual. Stove Temp/Auto it will run at whatever you set it at, but yes it may vary the speed to achieve the stove temperature.

 

The blower WILL run the same speed all the time. I also believe the blower may not run if the temp setting is 5 or above, not below. I use stove temp most of the time and my blower always runs.

 

Frankly, I couldnt remember if t varied.

Also in Stove Temp Auto it wont shut down when the temp is achieved-not sure of that is one of of the areas that Pete is trying to avoid.

 

Stove temp manual shuts the blower off on my stove.

 

It sounds it.

 

But the main difference is, I am getting a metered amount of fuel into the pot.
If you run stove temp, and feed rate of 4, we'll say, you will get a larger flame
followed by a smaller flame, in order to keep the stove the same average temperature.
With the metered amount of fuel, the side of my stove stayed between 435°-450°..

As to using it as Harman intended... if the result is the same, and it certainly is not
going to hurt the stove, then as you both say, there is no difference.
another way to look at is, if you were not supposed to experiment with
these things, why did they make the feed rate... temp settings so large?
If you were supposed to run at 3 or 4, why does it go to 0-7?

If this method is somehow detrimental to the stove.. please tell me! I do not want to
wreck the thing!!


Dan

 

Exactly-some call Stove Temp Manual-ambiance mode

 

I dont think its detrimental, just trying to figure out the rational. If it works, it works. How much of that DF is it eating right now?

 

Experimentation is fine, that's how we learn the stoves. It won't hurt the stove at all. It just sounded like you were jumping through hoops to achieve what the stove is already programmed to do. Carry on!

 

incorrect, if I read right...