Pellet heads!! What's up today?

Have not had much this year as far as the white chit but the timing has been horrible as it has been always on my way in to work and I have seen many in the ditch or Gully wondering why they are there. Tomorrow will be the same as I am sure I will see a few in the ditch again but maybe maybe not as many as its fairly cold and not the sloppy frozen mess we have seen the last few storms. Time will tell ....

Side note or question actually Lousy Weather your shop open on Sunday ?
Getting very low on fuel.

Thanks

 

I'm good. Got driving today after five weeks. Felt good to finally be recovering.

Double bypass. cardioversion. Bowel problems.

 

Glad you are doing better! Wow, sounds like you've been thru a lot.

 

WEEEEEEEEEEEEE! Not.

 

Project all finished and really like it... so lets build another one...

I ordered up another panel just like the one I just finished..
Digi-key had the same panel in stock and the price was good. ON it's way

Went looking for the blue print for the bracket I did for the big whit..
Could not find it so I had to measure up the one for the A2 and copy the angles and dimensions.

Got it cut and bent a bit ago in town.

GOOD TO GO.

Used some Gorilla tape to do a quick mock up for a photo shoot.
A LITTLE overkill, but keeping all the major parts the same makes sense.
The major components will be the same.
The panel layout will be very similar as well.

Much less required as the little stove is a simpler design and uses less parts.

We will have the same latchout relay as the big stove...
The auger timer is a different brand, but works the same.
A single fan speed control rather than 2 like the big stove.

The draft fan is a constant speed booster in the exhaust rather than the variable speed used on the big stove.

The room air fan is also used as a combustion air fan using a "shunt tube" off the plenum to add air to the fire pot.

Far less rigmarole to make it all happen.

Simple door switch shuts off the main fan if the door is opened.
The booster runs any time the main is on.
A pressure switch allows the auger to feed only if the main fan is on (Pressure on the plenum)
Two high limit snap switches as safeties.

The Prodigy 2 is a very simple design...

Sadly these were not really popular... A great stove though.

Canibalizing the original panel I built a while back will provide the spendy parts.

The new panel is gonna be almost as big as the stove..

 

Better to be early & rested, it could of been the other way around and be buried
I'm still in a polar vortex so the cold is hanging around, late Easter=late winter

 

Wow, you've been out of commission for awhile
Mend well my friend

 

You're not exaggerating the size of that control box, I would hate to hit my head on that
Quality work doesn't equal beauty in small packages, at least you can repair it bit by bit

 

OH YESSSS

The controls on the little stove were always a tad sketchy, and any new old stock control boards are hard to find and spendy.

The P2 controller will only have 2 relays...
I used the first incarnation of my controller in the little stove for a short while and then went back to to factory controller.

Mostly because we revamped the living room with new paint, drapes, flooring, mantle and other stuff and the controller was fastened to the wall...

I decided to "DEAL" WITH IT LATER (That was summer 2016) A bit short on ROUND TO IT'S I AM

After the fabulous results of the controller for the big stove it just made good sense to copy the design as closely as possible.

The actual panel layout will be similar but with minor changes to indicator lamps (5 lamps instead of 6 (No low limit indicator)
The low limit switch is /was only used to keep the draft booster fan running if someone shut the main switch off with a full fire going.
The top tier of controls will be nearly identical.
There will be one volt meter on the panel to see what the main fan is set at.
The fan speed control will be to the left of the meter (Where the second meter is on the big unit)
No start button...the system will come up when the main switch is turned on and the booster fan (Exhaust booster) will run any time the main is on.
The auger feed timer will start when the burner switch is turned on.
Fan speed will be fed off the main and controlled by it's own speed control unit

The heat control will be identical to the one I just finished with the same 6 position rotary switch and 6 resistor control block assembly..
Fuses will all be like the one for the big stove with one main fuse @ 10 amps and one each for blower fan, booster fan, auger motor...

We have always set the switch to the center position that just stops fuel feed and allow the fire to die out and the stove to cool completely before turning things off totally.

The low limit snap does nothing as far as real time running functions....in fact the low limit snap did not even work when we first installed the stove and I figured that out after we got a copy of the repair/service manual.

This stove has two high limit snaps that protect against BURN BACK and there is a door switch plus a pressure switch on the air plenum to stop the main fan (Combined room and fire pot air)

Very simple design.

As you said...can be repaired a piece at a time...

 

yup....next closed day is Easter......but I have this Sunday off! yay!

 

Woke up to 4 inches of fluffy white stuff. That's the most I've had this winter. It was so fluffy that I fired up the backpack blower and in 1/2 hour I was all done, including blowing the cars off.

 

Got home and shoveled the 4" of white stuff off the driveway, then scraped what I could of the roof dumpage from the ramp to the back door. Cleared the fence gates and actually shoveled to the front door since UPS is insisting on dropping off packages at the front door (despite the fact I have instructed them to place in front of garage since the front door is not used). Scraped off the she snow that was on top of the ice pile on the steps to the front door (can't do anything about the ice build up itself). Gathered the garbage and did the dump run.

The roof should dump in the front tomorrow, so I'll have lots of fun trying to hack that up since there is 2-5" of ice there from the last mess (the depth varies because of the way the ice fell and melded together - not an even surface by any means). Probably have to clean up the ramp again too since I have ice curling off the roof in places still.

Tomorrow night/Saturday is supposed to snow some more then Sunday night into Monday maybe a Nor'easter. Yeah, that Phil guy was dead wrong about an early spring

 

I have more faith in the ground weasel than the weather whatevers.

 

Plowed 6 more inches,I now actually have snow piles I have not seen for 5years or more.Sucks using the old plow truck slowly,but have to make it through winter.Must be this new global warming that we are having a normal winter?3 of the 4 people I was plowing for paid me,put into savings,possible road trip in may.Went to town,got groceries,fuel,and,part for broke winter van cam in mail,hope to fix it tomorrow,"but"most of the road,below our little subdivision,is down to 1 lane,lol.Dam stupid rich people."If" I get the tractor out tomorrow,I will widen my driveway,and our subdivision road,first,the H with them.Glad I bought that extra ton of pellets,in fall,more sub-0 coming in.Neighbor says he is almost out of wood,but,he has an almost full 1000 gal LPG tank,they will be fine.Might get 3-10 more tonight.Oh,closest neighbor went for heart checkup,spent 7 hours in there(he has has a surgery),they wanted to keep him overnite,he refused?????If he passes on,such is life.

 

Art, real happy to see you back and on the mend!

 

The weatherman is predicting 3-6 inches of snow between midnight tonight and noon tomorrow. He said the same thing for Wednesday night into Thursday - but we really only got about 1.5 inches. Glad it’s happening on a weekend this time, so regardless how much falls, we can take our time about getting the driveway cleaned up afterwards.

 

This winter has been weird for us too...the media has/had been whining about "our severe drought"
We had a fairly dry summer, but nothing way out of the ordinary for here...
The fall weather was nothing stellar, but then came winter.

Local weather forecasters had been laying on the dire predictions about the El nino weather pattern that was setting up and how it was going to be WARM AND DRY this winter...
What a bunch of crap.... we have had a nasty winter (subjective) super cold, not super anything, but one of the coldest Februaries on record.

Tons of snow in the Cascades and now the foothills are packed with a lot of snow too.

We have had snow on the ground for a lot of days this month.... not huge amounts, but snow on the ground and subfreezing temps at night right along.

Folks down in California have/had been crying drought for the past couple years or so, and now the Sierras are super packed with snow and the rivers are running through peoples back yards.

Can't win... never a balance.

We brought in 7500 lbs of shells this season, and things got off to a slow start too.

We have had the big stove running more than normal and more days with both Whits. running.

I feel for you with all that snow piled up high..
Sorry to hear about your neighbor, hope he does OK.