Harman P43 pellet goes through pellets fast..WHY?

[Val]

A question I've been meaning to ask for some time.....

I have a P43 that I bought used and have run it for the last 2 winters and running it now too.
For some reason it has always gone through a lot of pellets. It eats them down like crazy.

I have owned an Accentra since 2006 and that isn't nearly as much as a pellet gobbler.

The feed rate is set to 3 on the P43 and it is vented with 5 feet of vertical pellet stove pipe that goes into a lined masonry chimney which adds another 10 feet to the venting height.

When I got the stove the feed rate was set to 1 by the previous owners. I think they did this because it ate pellets too and that's why they sold the stove...because it wasn't cost effective for them to run in a large drafty house.

I have lived with the pellet gobbler P43 because I use it intermittently, so the impact of pellet consumption isn't as great.

Any clues to why this P43 eats pellets like mad?

 

[F4jock]

Too little information. Suggest you look at and join or get info from contemporaneous thread "Harman P48+ Eating Pellets at an Alarming Rate." You may have answered your own question - "Large, drafty house."

 

[CladMaster]

A question I've been meaning to ask for some time.....

I have a P43 that I bought used and have run it for the last 2 winters and running it now too.
For some reason it has always gone through a lot of pellets. It eats them down like crazy.

I have owned an Accentra since 2006 and that isn't nearly as much as a pellet gobbler.

The feed rate is set to 3 on the P43 and it is vented with 5 feet of vertical pellet stove pipe that goes into a lined masonry chimney which adds another 10 feet to the venting height.

When I got the stove the feed rate was set to 1 by the previous owners. I think they did this because it ate pellets too and that's why they sold the stove...because it wasn't cost effective for them to run in a large drafty house.

I have lived with the pellet gobbler P43 because I use it intermittently, so the impact of pellet consumption isn't as great.

Any clues to why this P43 eats pellets like mad?

Two factors play here ....

1/ The P43 is rated to 43,000 BTU --- this will chew pellets on higher settings.

2/ The size of the pellets -- short / small pellets -- the stove will feed in more lbs per hour on any setting over longer / bigger pellets.

There are more factors, and I am sure you know these based on your home.