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Fahrenheit flame height!

Discussion in 'Pellet Stoves, Pellet Fireplaces, Pellet Furnaces' started by ivanhoe, Jan 6, 2015.

  1. 343amc

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    I use a Lux TX500E here. Just two wires.

    Haven't logged on in a few days (screaming busy at work) and I haven't been getting emails from the site. Looks like I missed all the fun.
     
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    A jumper put on the R & W and still idling on T-stat mode:headbang:
     
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    Have you tried Manual and setting on level 3 through 5?
     
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    Trying #4 right now.
     
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    Auger on for 4-5sec and off for7-8sec.
     
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    Is that better than before?
     
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    I shut mine off tonight. I used to have all the times written down for my Quadrafire. I have never timed any of my other stoves. But on for 4-5 seconds should produce a good flame? On level one it seems like it's only a second or so?

    My ProPain company will be coming to take my LP tank soon because of the frozen ground. Seeing how I still have 25% left, six years after my last fill and the only reason we used 75% was an LP stove in the kitchen. We went with an electric stove this summer, so now if we don't burn it in the furnace? We give them the ProPain back that we paid for..

    So today, the furnace and the wood stove went idle.. I feel lazy.. :D lol
     
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    If you press and hold the manual auger feed button (below the down arrow, up and to the right of the power button), do you see a decent amount of pellets heading into the burn pot? You should be able to get the flames of h*ll in the pot if you manually run the auger. If not, I might suspect something with the motor, a jam of some type, etc.
     
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    No
    Not a lot of pellets dropping down the chute, 2rpm auger.
     
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    The auger was replaced with a avery/gleason 2rpm same as the M/K oem which had some slop in the drive. No increase of speed as demand was called for.
     
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    I won't be running my furnace for a few days, but I will be timing it when I do.
     
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    How large is the flame on start up?

    The furnace always starts in high (level 5) for the first 20 or 25 minutes to stabilize. Does it have a large flame (should fill the firebox and touch the top baffle plates).
     
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    There's a fair amount of pellets added to the fire pot to start the first flame. I make sure the flame is on for awhile to help build up the required temperature before re-pushing start. Then I activate the manual auger to keep the flame intensity on the high side to prevent a shut-down on proof of flame. Then it carries on it's own but the flame gradually diminishes to the idle or #1 as everyone calls it. Adding a thermostat would be the same as a jumper but intermittently. So we know it will not go in a higher heat level in T-stat mode or in manual mode.
     
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    We are burning 2 brands of pellets. One feeds freely, the other seems to jam the auger every time we add a new bag. Are you pellets long?
     
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    I was thinking of the same thing but I'm using Cubex HWD's and they're not too bad. There's the odd one that's long but mostly good size. The house was 80F this morning and 14F outside. The flame seemed to be a little higher and the Harman idling in the background now it's off. There's another Fahrenheit burner 2 hrs from me having heat issues this year. He uses different pellets than me(Ambiance). I do not know the details of his story. Maybe he might chime in as I gave him a link to this forum.
    Note: I'm using F and not C:D
     
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    It look like the guy in your fire might be causing the issue? Might tell him that fire will melt a camera.
     
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    I'll tell him right away to get out of the fire before he gets burnt. Thank for the heads up. Geez, I now have to put a fence around my furnace before a lawsuit comes my way:hair:
     
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    Only the furnace working and its 81F in the house and 0F outside with lots of wind. Maybe the Fahrenheit is working after all. The flame height is just above the burn pot and the fan on low. Maybe it's the pellets that's giving me fits:headbang:. We don't have the good ones up here:( Going down to -22F tonight so hoping I'll be ok:zip:
     
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    Here are a couple pics I just took of my furnace. One is the flame when it's calling for heat (running in level 5), and the second is how the control board looks.

    I can grab another pic of how the flame looks when the stat isn't calling for heat.
     

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    There's nobody in your fire, must be good pellets! :rofl: :lol: I see in the pic your heat level is at #5 & on T-stat mode. Mine doesn't go on #5, it stays on #1. I'll do a double look to make sure.
     
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