What's your highest heat setting for the season .

Same way I run both of mine Accentra usually 4 push it to 5 when really cold like these past few days , p43 same settings as you TT and feed rate 4 per Harman is that what you do ??

 

Breakfast is the most important meal of the day

 

Steve the stove was running so efficient / hot I honestly couldn't look at the flame , as someone mentioned welding torch flame although I've run her 50 degrees hotter last year at times .

 

Yeah, it's funny when you get the stove cranking what that flame looks like out of the burnpot.

 

Highest was this weekend, at 1.9 lb/hr, convection blower at 90%, burning Cleanfire Pacific /retail bagged LG's /Satisifaction branded LG's, 225 F avg. at the Heat Exchange exit, indoor temp. differential avg. was 66 F warmer vs. outside, w/ pellet stove only.. FHA furnace cycling through every 90 minutes to prevent pipe freeze, 1500 watt Radiator heater in porch room / laundry room running. Need.a.bigger.stove.

 

Yes both stoves are configured for feed rate 4. The only time I will back that off a bit is on the P68, if I run in room temp mode I will adjust the feed rate down a bit, otherwise at max heat demand the stove has a tendency to get too hot - 600 degrees on the mag thermometer, which honestly freaks me out a little. I can't even imagine this thing running full bore...

 

CF is the lb/hr a manual calculation you perform, or does the stove itself or a reference manual specifically tell you this? Just curious. For my stoves I would have to calculate this and just due to the nature of how the stove works, it would be a guesstimate at best because the stove is ever adjusting feed rate to meet the configured temp, no matter what mode it's it. Spose it would be a bit easier and more accurate to guesstimate in stove temp mode though.

 

Two Bags of Somersets, on the 5th setting, with temps from, 1st 418Deg to 475Deg 75 deg in the house. The paint will smell
on Max which is #6 and would be close to three bags a day and is not to be used over one to two hours for quick warm up.

 

~45# a day??
I can't get my stove to use that little!! We'd freeze!!!!!!


Dan

 

Pete,if it is above 20,and I get afternoon sun,and low wind,I can go 24 hrs on a bag,but,lateley with this --0 stuff,2 bags 24hrs,and my cabin/house is small.

 

About what I go through.... this morning was -2° and went about 21hrs on a hopper... (80#)
Old New Englander house..... stove in basement... (cellar dweller)

Dan

 

Reading some of these post really makes me appreciate how easy this little 1200 sq. Ft. Shack heats here.

 

Me too with the Accentra ,a little less than that with the p43 .

 

I don't know if you need a bigger stove, You need to turn the one you have up. 1.9 lbs/hr isn't much. I use that much idling.

 

Me too Good windows and good insulation , that's the key , keep the heat you make in the house .

 

Hey TT - it's both: the older Ecoteck stoves have adjustable parameters for each burn setting ( 1-5 ), all soft settings in firmware, the stove has feed rates from .6 lb/hr through 3.2 lb/hr built in.

The built-in feed rates are highly accurate, to within .1 lb/hr: I've verified by both measuring / weighing out pellets and checking against a fixed point in the hopper & timing burn rate, and averaging out time to burn a bag at a fixed feed rate, over time.. * I was wearing a lab coat, w/ pocket protector, when I did this.

Hey Sub, maybe a little more. Tiny stove here is only rated for 32,000 BTU/hr. max. - but that's just 'optimistic marketing', because I would have to be burning a fuel with a net BTU rating of 10,000/hr. at the max. feed rate of 3.2 lb/hr, to get that.. And the stove would be glowing bright red.

The optimal burn rate on this stove is 1.6 lb/hr - that gives the least temp. differential between Heat Exchange air (200 F) and flue gas exit temp. (approx. 290 F). Anything higher starts to approach the point of 'diminishing return' .. and the stove's internal areas, start to heat up quickly.

Running at 1.9 lb/hr, the firebox shows 550F at the stove glass, 225 F at the Heat Exchange, and flue gas at 357 F @ the smoke probe, located just beyond the combustion blower.

I'll try tuning it to 2.1 or 2.2 lb/hr - as long as I can keep the firebox glass temp. under 575 F, and flue gas temp. to 380 F or less, that feed rate would be running at 75% max. rating.. * That's the most I would want to go here: I don't want to warp or crack the SS burn pot from over-firing, an issue that other Ecoteck stove owners have reported.

It's a good stove, we're lucky to have it: it's just a bit under-powered for these cold temps: really need something in the 40,000+ BTU range, or a 2nd stove to balance out heating the home in the cold months.

 

cleanfire a Castle Serenity would make an excellent second stove to help out the the Francesca, the 2 stoves are very comparable except for price. you can catch the Serenity on sale for 799.00. You would love the ease of cleaning the Serenity over the Francesca and you could go a week on the Serenity before shutting down to dump the ash vs the 2 -3 days of the Francesca.

 

I saw that TSC is running another sale.. For that price, the Serenity has got to be in the top 5 in value for stoves at the moment..

I saw that Eric VW took advantage of that sale how long have you been a pellet roaster? .. the link he posted gave me the heads-up. (Thanks Eric, & Congrats on the new stove.)

* Always appreciate the feedback (and the videos you posted up) on the Castle Serenity stoves Rich.

I was going back-and-forth with a few different Ecoteck/Ravelli stoves listed on CL over the past few months - didn't work out due to price, or condition. I (we) would like the next stove to be lower maintenance - both the Serenity, and the Harman stoves, seem to fit that bill.

Still need to visit the town 'founding fathers' and find out what permits, inspections, etc. will be needed for a 2nd stove install, that's on the list for next week.