Thoughts on our new Quadrafire E2

Well we have about 10 bags through the new E2 and we are beginning to form some observations and opinions.

First off this thing has a heat exchanger and its not afraid to use it. I have been a little busy of late, and don't have any real temps yet but they are higher than the 140-159 deg. temps my US Stove put out. We have the quad on low and it still heats the living room to 77-80 deg. I know its not really cold yet, but I have no doubts about this thing keeping us warm for the next few winters.

We don't love the hopper. Quad says 47 lbs. Bullspit. The lid pulls forward and ..... well it sucks.
It really hold maybe 38 lbs. and I know its only a matter of time before someone drops the metal bucket and chips the enamel on top of the lid and it will probably be me. And I will be mad. And I will need alcohol.

It quiet. Really. To the point where I think there is a problem with the room fan. It does not seem to blow with the velocity of the old 6039i, but it doesn't have to judging by the living room thermostat. Its nice.

I hope the ignitor is robust because it cycles a lot. Wifey gets a little cold at the low temp cycle just before stove refires. I may take temps swing on thermostat from 2 deg. down to 1 deg. I know that it has not been very cold yet, but this baby super heats my small home and then shuts down. I sometimes think the stove is actually too big for my smallish ranch home, even running on low. I wanted a bigger stove so it just cruised and never or rarely breathed heavy, but maybe I over did it slightly. We will know better when it gets colder.

Overall I really like it. Wifey is a little wary of the low temps in the house during the temperature swing. I think I can solve that with the adjustment in the thermostat. She liked the constant heat the 6039 put out. I like that I'm saving some pellets during the cycling process.

It looks great, its quiet, easy to operate and adjust. She really lets loose with a lot of heat and thats why we bought it. I'll have to wait to see about durability but it should be a fun trip !!!

Doggy

 

I'm far from being a pellet guy but that was an interesting post, very informative. Enjoy your new stove!

 

Nice Review... Not sure about the E2, but with my stove I have to push/pack the pellets in for it to hold the 60 lbs...If I just pour them in it would hold nowhere near the 60#

 

I find it to be a good review as well......OP enumerated the plusses and minuses of what he sees, and from what seems to be a pretty unbiased viewpoint, which is good. Would be nice to see more of this rather than the typical "my stove is better than your stove" stuff. Only thing that seems even somewhat lacking is ease and frequency of cleaning, but its a new stove, and likely Schoondog hasn't had it long enough to elucidate on those particulars....yet.

 

Elucidate...I will look that up!! LOL

 

Nope Smoke...It does not mean to eat popcorn...Guess again!!

 

About the same thing I am finding out on my E2 also Schoon. We use a 3-1/2 gallon plastic mop bucket that works good for pouring the pellets in. Have you had any missed ignitions yet? We had one once, I think the pot had a little to thick of a cup cake in it.

Like eatonpcat I found that if you push the pellets down and back you can get more in it. We have mainly ran ours on manual as I am leery of a failed ignition. Kind of wished it would just modulate the heat down to low and then ramp it up when needed.
Found a couple of pellets once behind the ash drawer, not sure how they got there?
Really like ours it can really pump the heat and really eat the pellets!

Gary

 

Yup had two misfires. Found 2nd one last night at 2am. My theory is excessive ash in the burnpot insulate the pellets from the ignitor. We are not used to having to manually dump of the pot, which as you know Gary, takes all of 15 seconds to do once a day. Our old stove had a agitator to take care of burnpot cleaning. No big thing, just have to remember to pull a lever when filling the stove. And I do try to push the pellets to the rear of the hopper but I can't get a full bag into mine.
I still use to t stat, but I may try the manual when it gets a little colder.

Do you get a little smoke odor when it first starts? I have had the stove out a few times to seal and adjust the vent and the cleanout and I am very sure the exhaust is sealed and see no smoke. Yet we get an odor for the first 30 seconds of fire. Never had any odor with the old stove.

doggy

 

No odor although I did find a fine layer of ash on the top of the silver heat sheild above the door opening.

 

smoke odor? slight gasket leak somewhere....probs minor, since after ignition is goes away.....