Hi everyone....i am new to burning and jumped in head first with a pb105. I have 2800sqft im heating and have plumbed in my unit in series. Ive run about 15bags or so through the unit without a hiccup. I came home last friday from work and found a horribly smelling home
My units burn box tarred itself completely over
! So after of relentless scrapping and praying for the tar to lossen up i cleaned the entire burn box in about 15hrs
!!
So now im trying to understand what i did wrong. I went through my install step by step and came to the conclusion that i ran out of air since my fan was gummed up. I also did not have the low speed fan set correct. So now with all that behind me here are my specs:
-Hammer Hot Ones premium pellets
-185 max with OAT and OAK
-165 min temp
-.87" wc high speed
-.3" wc low speed
-1 right angle flu pipe and about 4'6"' vertical and 2' to outside and end of pipe
-wantage nj 780ft above sea
-low to zero humidity
-avg daily temp over the last week 55*f
-full southern exposure no trees![shock !!! !!!](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shock.gif)
-cleaning fan burn pot burn box and ash daily now
-burning 2bags a day
-flu pipe spotless no tar just a lil soot powder...
With those specs i still seem to be building a
Stage 3 creosote just on the wall immediately above the burn pot.... Is this normal???? I dont tar up any of the heat exchange pipes. There is powder soot on them and the fan blades daily but nothing close to the tar i fought over the weekend. What am i doing wrong????
Here are some pics....rotate em 90* clockwise....you can see a definitive line above the burn pot where there is spotless metal and then dripping tar
! This photo was 2hrs after cleaning and was still revovering the system temp back to 185 after being idle from cleaning so it should have been f#$%&ing hot![shock !!! !!!](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shock.gif)
Please help
!! If anyone has any super ideas please even call me! Is this even normal???
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So now im trying to understand what i did wrong. I went through my install step by step and came to the conclusion that i ran out of air since my fan was gummed up. I also did not have the low speed fan set correct. So now with all that behind me here are my specs:
-Hammer Hot Ones premium pellets
-185 max with OAT and OAK
-165 min temp
-.87" wc high speed
-.3" wc low speed
-1 right angle flu pipe and about 4'6"' vertical and 2' to outside and end of pipe
-wantage nj 780ft above sea
-low to zero humidity
-avg daily temp over the last week 55*f
-full southern exposure no trees
![shock !!! !!!](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shock.gif)
-cleaning fan burn pot burn box and ash daily now
-burning 2bags a day
-flu pipe spotless no tar just a lil soot powder...
With those specs i still seem to be building a
Stage 3 creosote just on the wall immediately above the burn pot.... Is this normal???? I dont tar up any of the heat exchange pipes. There is powder soot on them and the fan blades daily but nothing close to the tar i fought over the weekend. What am i doing wrong????
Here are some pics....rotate em 90* clockwise....you can see a definitive line above the burn pot where there is spotless metal and then dripping tar
![shock !!! !!!](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shock.gif)
![shock !!! !!!](/talk/styles/default/xenforo/smileys/shock.gif)
Please help
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