i really need to do the leaf blower trick but there's so much snow/ice around the house that cleaning is a challenge, My tools are in the shed back there and i cannot even open the door to get the big ash vac.
I used a smaller ash vac the other day but suction wasn't the same as with the bigger one, so i must use the bigger ash vac.
Stove gets a thick "ash bar" formation on the top of the glass within 24 hours and this wasn't happening the first 2 months when stove was new.
I did the ash vac trick couple times before end of the year, so it isn't that i haven't cleaned the pipes since installed back at the end of Sept.
Burn pot seems to bunch pellets a bit more than before and it seems like there's always clinkers in it when i turn the unit off and i'm using same cubex and okies as before.
I know it is just coincidence but it seems like if it all started when i burned a bag of hammer hot ones which produced a lot of ash for me and didn't burn that well, i started fiddling with the trim settings then, but when i turn off the unit i unplug it so it should be back at factory defaults anyways.
I assume due to the clinker formation (like a crust) the purge cycle is not working as effective as at the beginning where the burn pot would be almost clean... I don't know if it was because the unit was running on/off during the day, versus now that it runs consecutive for 3 or 4 days.
The pics are from this morning, almost 3 days burning. To get very good heat i need to se the feed at 4 and you can see the flames are always a bit tall (even the feed trim is at the lowest of 1) and sort of lazy maybe.....i haven't learned what the lazy flame really is yet.
I will shut it down now and clean inside really well as usual, when turned back on and feed at 3 the flames look much alive because it seems that air is coming from under the pot more effectively (stove is clean)
I used a smaller ash vac the other day but suction wasn't the same as with the bigger one, so i must use the bigger ash vac.
Stove gets a thick "ash bar" formation on the top of the glass within 24 hours and this wasn't happening the first 2 months when stove was new.
I did the ash vac trick couple times before end of the year, so it isn't that i haven't cleaned the pipes since installed back at the end of Sept.
Burn pot seems to bunch pellets a bit more than before and it seems like there's always clinkers in it when i turn the unit off and i'm using same cubex and okies as before.
I know it is just coincidence but it seems like if it all started when i burned a bag of hammer hot ones which produced a lot of ash for me and didn't burn that well, i started fiddling with the trim settings then, but when i turn off the unit i unplug it so it should be back at factory defaults anyways.
I assume due to the clinker formation (like a crust) the purge cycle is not working as effective as at the beginning where the burn pot would be almost clean... I don't know if it was because the unit was running on/off during the day, versus now that it runs consecutive for 3 or 4 days.
The pics are from this morning, almost 3 days burning. To get very good heat i need to se the feed at 4 and you can see the flames are always a bit tall (even the feed trim is at the lowest of 1) and sort of lazy maybe.....i haven't learned what the lazy flame really is yet.
I will shut it down now and clean inside really well as usual, when turned back on and feed at 3 the flames look much alive because it seems that air is coming from under the pot more effectively (stove is clean)