What is the longest non stop burn time anyone has done with an Englaner stove including hopper top offs? (this would have to include pegdots open door scoop out ash trick) since the ash build up would be to great after 12 hours. Thx
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you mean filling up hopper while running ? I would imagine the runtime on one fill would be 16 ours or so. curious about others though.
sweet, I didn't realize it could be done. I opened my door up during shut down nd little smoke came in, so I didnt think...
How are you guys cleaning the ash while its running? do you just shovel some out of the burn pot? how do you maintain the flame?
I think the longest I have had mine burning was only about 12 hours with no refueling. I have not lined the sides of the hopper with anything yet so the pellets still dont all fall down into the hopper
I think the longest I have had mine burning was only about 12 hours with no refueling. I have not lined the sides of the hopper with anything yet so the pellets still dont all fall down into the hopper
I use a dry wall spatula. I separate the burning pellets from the ash, scrape the ash to the front, and then spread the remaining burning pellets around a little. Whole operation takes less than 20 seconds. I've had it running for about a week 24/7 this way. I usually do a good full clean on a weekly basis. Only thing that noticed is that the air intake underneath the burn plate tends to collect the ash. Other than that it has been running great.
I've never even thought about shutting it down to fill the hopper.
Last night was about 8 degrees outside and pretty windy. The stat was set at 68 and it was about 66 inside the house when I woke up. I had it set at 8 feed 9 blower. There was a good sized clinker in the burn pot that made the clearing a little difficult this morning (and hot!).
I guess that's about the limit of what the stove can do for my 2000 sqft house.
I've never even thought about shutting it down to fill the hopper.
Last night was about 8 degrees outside and pretty windy. The stat was set at 68 and it was about 66 inside the house when I woke up. I had it set at 8 feed 9 blower. There was a good sized clinker in the burn pot that made the clearing a little difficult this morning (and hot!).
I guess that's about the limit of what the stove can do for my 2000 sqft house.
I set my stove on 4-9 woke up this morning and it was 58 inside my house! Stove was still going nicely just couldn't keep up, way to windy and cold outside! My house is insulated about as well as a cardboard box house...Tonight I'll be jacking the stove up on high!
EDIT: To answer the OP, I usually burn my stove for 3-4 days then stop it to clean it. My stove runs so much better when its cleaned haha.
EDIT: To answer the OP, I usually burn my stove for 3-4 days then stop it to clean it. My stove runs so much better when its cleaned haha.
Cool, I will have to try out that technique of cleaning up the ash.
I woke up it was 64F in the room with the stove, and maybe 60F everywhere else. I had the stove on 2,2. but I think the furnace might have came on once or twice. It was 10F and real windy in the morning. This is also a 1000sqft ranch
How oftern are you scraping the carbon on the feed tube? I have been doing it about every 2 or 3 days. I also don't run my stove while I am at work, still don't fully trust it.
I woke up it was 64F in the room with the stove, and maybe 60F everywhere else. I had the stove on 2,2. but I think the furnace might have came on once or twice. It was 10F and real windy in the morning. This is also a 1000sqft ranch
How oftern are you scraping the carbon on the feed tube? I have been doing it about every 2 or 3 days. I also don't run my stove while I am at work, still don't fully trust it.
I scrape it once a week during the weekly cleanup. I haven't really noticed a whole lot of build up there though. I mainly get build up on the right side of the burn pot, just over the igniter. This is probably because the auger tends to feed the pellets to the right and there's a little bit of creosote build-up until each batch of pellets coming out of the auger catch.
I clean out the burn pot 2 times a day without shutting it off. I just use a flat putty knife to toss the ash out of the burn pot. I get a lot of carbon build up around the lower auger tube and on the end of the auger itself. I usually scrap the carbon when I shut the stove off every 3-4 days. When I shut it down I use a small fireplace broom and sweep out all the walls of the burn chamber and remove the baffle plate to get behind that. My whole cleaning routine takes maybe 10 minutes once I get the stove off.
Longest I've had it running no stop was for four days over a weekend.
Last night was the coldest night so far for us, 4 degrees with a steady blowing wind. Set my 55 SHP25L at 1-2 with the lower buttoms at 5-5-1. Woke up to 68 degress and had to clear the ash out of the fire box. I usually clear it before I leave for work and my wife shuts down the stove when she leaves.
When I get home I'll clean out the ash and clean the window with a damp paper towel. Start it up on 7-9 for 2 hours and it's toasty. I usually scrape the ash out before going to bed after eleven o'clock news, and it's good till morning. I use a long handled spatula I bought a discount store and squared off the end. It has a slightly turned up sides that hold the ash and it just fits into the lower fire box area. The long handle works great to scrape the hot ash to the front, with the stove going.
I'm also mixing my pellets, hardwood and softwood premiums. I seem to get a better burn with the softwoods so I mix to reduce the clinkers I was getting with the Penningtons.
Last night was the coldest night so far for us, 4 degrees with a steady blowing wind. Set my 55 SHP25L at 1-2 with the lower buttoms at 5-5-1. Woke up to 68 degress and had to clear the ash out of the fire box. I usually clear it before I leave for work and my wife shuts down the stove when she leaves.
When I get home I'll clean out the ash and clean the window with a damp paper towel. Start it up on 7-9 for 2 hours and it's toasty. I usually scrape the ash out before going to bed after eleven o'clock news, and it's good till morning. I use a long handled spatula I bought a discount store and squared off the end. It has a slightly turned up sides that hold the ash and it just fits into the lower fire box area. The long handle works great to scrape the hot ash to the front, with the stove going.
I'm also mixing my pellets, hardwood and softwood premiums. I seem to get a better burn with the softwoods so I mix to reduce the clinkers I was getting with the Penningtons.
Mine's been running for 9 days now. Usually do a shutdown clean on the weekends but it was very cold and I figured I'd wait til Tuesday or Wednesday when it's supposed to be in the 40's. I clean the clinkers out several times a day just for efficiency of combustion.
Not heating the whole house, an old Victorian.
Heating only the non heated areas about 1500 sq.ft. Family room, hallway to kitchen, kitchen, old pantry (about 120 sq.ft), up stairs office and master bed room above the family room and stove. Heat seems to flow into the others areas without a fan, the kitchen is about 5 degrees cooler and has no heat.
The rest is closed off and heated with oil fired steam radiators kept at 62-64 degrees. The pellet stove is taking over what used to be heated with propane, and I couldn't be happier
. Since my last propane bill was $3.39/gal.
Heating only the non heated areas about 1500 sq.ft. Family room, hallway to kitchen, kitchen, old pantry (about 120 sq.ft), up stairs office and master bed room above the family room and stove. Heat seems to flow into the others areas without a fan, the kitchen is about 5 degrees cooler and has no heat.
The rest is closed off and heated with oil fired steam radiators kept at 62-64 degrees. The pellet stove is taking over what used to be heated with propane, and I couldn't be happier
. Since my last propane bill was $3.39/gal.
I'm heating a 1500 sq ft cape. Left mine on last night at 1-2 with the lower buttoms at 5-5-1. Woke up to 71 in the stove room and 68 everywhere else. Have been burning for 3 straight days and just open the door up for a minute scoop ashes with a long handled spoon and dump it into the ash pan, wipe the glass with dry crumpled up newspaper, fill the hopper and good to go. When I came home at 5:30, house was 75 in the stove room, 71 everywhere else. I thoroughly clean mine once a week.
I shut mine down once a week for cleaning, other than that it runs 24/7....unless we get a warm spell like we did today. Outside temp was up in the 40's and sunny, house was 73 when I shut the stove off, three hours later it had cooled down to 70, fired the stove back up before the sun went down.
[quote author="PunKid8888" date="1228773146"]Cool, I will have to try out that technique of cleaning up the ash.
I woke up it was 64F in the room with the stove, and maybe 60F everywhere else. I had the stove on 2,2. but I think the furnace might have came on once or twice. It was 10F and real windy in the morning. This is also a 1000sqft ranch
PunkKid get that blower speed up to like 5 or 6 you will be warmer, Try runnig at 2,5 tonight,
I woke up it was 64F in the room with the stove, and maybe 60F everywhere else. I had the stove on 2,2. but I think the furnace might have came on once or twice. It was 10F and real windy in the morning. This is also a 1000sqft ranch
PunkKid get that blower speed up to like 5 or 6 you will be warmer, Try runnig at 2,5 tonight,
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