Wachusett said:
All M55's crap up the glass with a pretty consistent pattern. Upper right corner then over the top of the glass, like an eyebrow.
Open the slider damper wide open, then adjust it in slowly a little at a time. Wide open open there should be no smoke at all.
I just set mine with a mag gauge this weekend. It takes a little patience. At all your slider adjustments give the stove
some time to burn a each setting and evaluate before your next adjustment.
Also if wide a open damper doesn't clean it up. It may need a good cleaning.
FWIW. I have mine setup: 45* bend at the adapter, then straight out 2 feet. Slider damper is set almost 3/4 in. Mag reading 0.17
This is hard to explain until you know what the flame should look like, but I'll give it a shot.
Adding on to the "damper is wide open," so close the damper a little bit at a time until the flame looks almost completely vertical.
Next close or open the damper until the flame has a Vee shape (low in the middle high on the outside edges).
You are pretty close at this point, so now look at the color of the flame, and it should be white at the base with orange mixed in, but without black smoke coming off the tips of the flame. If the flame has the correct shape, but is white all over it has too much air, so close the damper.
The Vee shape will not be constant, but you can see the gap in the center, but should not be constant like the dirty burn in this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oiRXfF6_gWk&feature=BFa&list=PLB44BF7204A62DB78&lf=results_video
All this should be performed with a fully warm stove, at #5 heat setting, and with default combustion air, and feed, which I believe is #3. and #3, but check the manual to be sure (I set my damper up to burn shoulder pellets because they tend to burn dirty, and I can easily adjust for a clean/hot pellet with the control panel combustion air/feed adjustments).
When you get close make sure that you wait 8-10 minutes between adjustments, or you will be chasing the setting for it will need to settle after a change to take an accurate flame observation.
This should get you very close, and should be good enough until you get a mag for testing.
FWIW, you may even surprise yourself, and be right on when you test with the mag. ;-)
One other thing, you can feel how much hotter the stove will get when you are in a clean burn range, so take note of the flame if the stove is burning much hotter than usual.
FWIW, yup the window gets dirty in an eyebrow shape no matter how clean the burn. :-S
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