Ok all, had my Assentra Insert about a one week now and I am liking it! Was a little hesitant because I was a wood stove burner for long time and I had a hard time believing pellets stoves could put out the serious heat that top quality wood stove could. Well to my surprise this Harman really did extremely well on the auto thermostat setting over this past cold(single digit weekend). Had Insert set on 70 degrees and the original programmable second zone thermostat showed 71 to 72 degrees, and it maintained that temp, Great I thought. After reading about different pellet brands and of course different preference's I was on a task and purchase 5 or six different brands of pellets.Guess either I'm in a good area because every store and TSC along with fireplace & stove shops had lots of pellets. Over the week of burning different ones, truthfully I did not noticed a difference in the difference heat output of pellets. Now is this because my insert is on auto and the temps pretty much set? Not much ash either and window is still very clean, I do like the way temp is pretty steady on auto. But when I was burning wood it was either so hot your are your skivies and or the candles on wall just folder over melted, or it was cold, never could maintain temp like this. I imagine if I ran this Insert on manual it could almost do the same as wood stove and really make it too hot but it probably would use lots more pellets right?
Thanks, Rick
Thanks, Rick