New pellet stove recommendations--Harmon? Enviro? others?

Never could catch!! LOL

 

I'm certainly partial to the P series Harman's, easy to clean, large ash bucket, built like a tank, eats any kind of pellets without problems but can still be prettied up with the various trim kits!

 

I understand some of these newer digital stoves will let you know when your pellets are low or it needs to be filled. What the hell, and all this time I've been having to go lift the hopper lid and look inside wasting 2 seconds.

 

I had a Napoleon pellet stove for several year. That was my first stove. I bought it because of the price point and availability. Harman were not available unless you were willing to be on a waitlist that was several months long. Even then, they failed to deliver leaving hundrest on those list with no stove. Overall, I liked the first stove. The learning curve was huge and never ending. It required attention every day. It got really dirty really fast. It was also very fussy about what pellets it was being fed. When I had better finances, I went looking for a stove that burned cleaner and didn't need a special diet. I went to Rocky's stove shop in Augusta and bought a P68. That stove is like night and day compared to the prior stove. It is so easy to use, maintain, and is not fussy at all about what is burned in it. You set it for what heat you want, then make sure you keep it fed. I am able to clean it. But I do have it serviced by my nephew who is a pellet stove tech. The only catch is the price. My stove cost $4,000. off the floor and no perks. I got it plain Jane. I may dress it up sometime, but it is just fine as it sits. If I were to buy it again, I would get a smaller unit in the P series. When this one gets going, it can be too much.

 

Yup my Allure has the fuel level and I have never even set it up. Just as easy to touch the screen and the hopper light comes on so I don't have to open the lid. Touch screen has a bunch of other nice features though, but I didn't buy the stove based on the TC bought it because it's the only Harman I like the looks of and clearences would work.

 

you bought it for the right reasons.

 

What I can say about the Quadra Fire Classic Bay 1200 is , it heats great , eats any pellet and in 6 years of heavy use I've only had to replace the exhaust blower . In my case I clean stove regularly . Oh and let me add that I am a fan of Harman but at the time I was trying to keep the price down but happy with my choice.

 

Well just spent a little bit of time looking through the manuals of the Enviro Maxx as that is the only stove that could match my P68 and well it might match the output or possibly surpass the P68 I have. After reading it reminded me why I bought a Harman and that would be ease of use but more importantly cleaning required and settings to be messed with . Now I do like to tinker with my stoves but it seems a lot of tinkering would have to occur with the Enviro and currently I don't have time right now in my life although I love to Tinker but with all the different kinds of pellets I burn its soooooo nice to just load the hopper and let the Harman do it's thing and burn baby burn. Haa still tempted .......
Love me Harman's

 

I kept mouth shut JT, didn't want to scare the hormoon peoples.

 

ISTR Pete going a while on one of his stoves.

 

Whats alluring is the 130 lb hopper for sure . If you only open your stove once a month to do a clean then it would match what I am doing now as I burn a lot more pellets than you do so I think I would be opening it once a week for a good cleaning.
Moving that much air is inviting as well just love the fact that I don't have to do anything when switching pellets except load the stove. Dang exactly what I need right now is a new stove ......

 

I would be embarrassed of a stove that dirty.

 

You don't say.....

 

Best ye warn them to acquire welding and cutting skilz. She can be hard on agitators.

 

Pfft...No rocks burned, I am buying a Hermoan (see what i did there?)!

Hormones just don't burn hot enough to wear out any of the internals is what I hear!!