I am an owner of a new Heat Commander. We have been running this furnace for 3 months with no issues. We could load 4 pieces of wood and that would take us 10 to 12 hours at the temperature set on the thermostat. Over night it started running hot and would go into the 80’s. It isn’t going into eco mode. There is still too much air going into the fire box. When I look at the dampers, the secondary is closed all the way but the primary is still open about a half inch. Is this normal? We can only put two pieces of wood in at a time right now. What do I do? I loved the stove for 3 months.
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Is it hitting the overtemp alarm? (Rapid blinking light) you might need to clean the thermocouple above the baffle in the left rear of the firebox maybe. Someone else with more knowledge may have better suggestions
It is not rapid blinking. It is in the slow blinking mode. We did clean the thermocouple already.
brenndatomu
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I had a damper stick open on me once...I just got a long piece of 1/8" rod and went through a louver to tap on it, it snapped closed then. I think they had some issues with this on some of the earlier models (like mine) but I think there was something updated and that supposedly was the end of that issue then.
Edit: Thinking back on this, it was doing something crazy when this happened too...I don't recall what exactly, but seems to me like there was some weird flashing of the light, maybe a beeping(?) and it sounded like the damper just kept trying to open/close over n over again.
Edit: Thinking back on this, it was doing something crazy when this happened too...I don't recall what exactly, but seems to me like there was some weird flashing of the light, maybe a beeping(?) and it sounded like the damper just kept trying to open/close over n over again.
That's impressive! (unless a very small house)
brenndatomu
Minister of Fire
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