All - Interesting info on the "dry vs wet", and Will711, interesting that your stove burns through the fines . . . again, I admit to being a novice since I have never cleaned my fines box (local dealer has always done an annual service on my Harmon P68 - dealer always claims my fines box is always full each year, even though I sift). I might not be a very regular poster, as this is my busy season at work (every Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter season) . . . but I will check in on a regular basis.
My P68 never has fines building up in the bottom. When it burns empty, all I see is some sawdust and metal. No build up. This is a lazy man's stove compared to the one I had. I used to have the hump build up in the burn try, but that is minimal now that I leave it on STAT. What little there is, cleans right off with a regular screw driver. The one spot I have to watch is where the igniter is. I have to take that door off from the bottom of the burn tray and vac. it out. Then I am back running.
I use a P61A and my fines box usually has a good amount in it along with small bits/pieces of pellets every month I do a cleaning. Hopper barely has any fines so I guess they all end up in the fines box.
depending on the age of the stove, the newer units cannot plug off in the feeder weldment, as the fines chamber is open on the inside to the auger chamber....I believe all UL feeders are like this. The older feeders, yea, can plug off that fines chamber.
The P61A fine box is always full when I clean it every 3-4 weeks. But, that stove runs the chitty pellets that are often time very dusty and long. When it runs dry, the bottom is clean though, so I'm sure it burns quite a bit of the fines as it runs thru. The P43 has been from no fines to half full box in 3-4 weeks. There was one time that it was full, but I think I didn't even bother to check it the cleaning prior, so won't count that. I run the better (relative only to what I buy, not what is out there) and smaller pellets thru that one though.
Doug...I think some of your customers are confused over your pellets. They are basically saying same pellet, different bag. Actually, one is exactly saying that.
But they are so close no one could ever tell the difference..................... But their stove's might!!
Northern Warmth Wood Pellets Available in Central MA The AD mentions super spruce is not the same product as the Okanagan platinums were, but no mention about the DF being a different product.
damm Kevin...those look pretty darn good if I say so myself...perfect little chiclet pallets ..each square, clean, bright, perfectly packaged and ready to be dropped on someone's driveway in the next two weeks.....tks again for your biz...
