New England - How did your pellet stove handle the job last night?

[hossthehermit]

Wed. morning 4 below, this morning 2 below, 2 bags a day MWP soft, inside temp is whatever wifey deah sets the stat at ...........

 

[lessoil]

Was 5 degrees when I woke up this AM. House was at 77.9 on first floor.....74.5 on second floor. Running Okies Black Hills Heat. Nice fuel

Well it was zero all night. Downstairs at 76-77 and upstairs 64-66 (All night). Insulation issues......but no oil burned through the night!!
5th year with the Harman. Love the heat!!

 

[Donn Fletcher]

I have horrible insulation in my house. It's an old 1890 Farm House. Running a HarmanXXV on full blast and struggled to keep it at 67 downstairs. I know the furnace kicked on from the zones upstairs.

 

[LMPS]

18F outside 70 downstairs 68 upstairs with Vermonts stove blasting on sunflower mode. Will try Somersets tonight

Went to sunflower last night, burning the PWI, but the house got down to 63 over night and only back up to 68 today...from these posts does not seem I am getting very good results.

 

[DOLLARBILL]

came home to 84 degrees outside by 4PM it was 24 asked my daughter if she liked it or was it on the chilly side ...she just said I guess I take after you Dad ...what could I say !

 

[Darryl]

My thermometer said 8 degrees at 6am this morning

and my house (single level ranch) was a toasty 70 degrees. I really like the GAP's....good heat....heat good

 

[rparker]

Well, -11 and windy this morning. The Quad at medium (with high fan) running the Vermonts. Pleased with 68 degrees.

 

[rwthomas1]

Was 11*F here in Southern RI this morning. Hard to compare how well the little Lopi Pioneer does since I also have gas heat on the 1st floor, electric in the 1st floor backrooms, and all electric on the 2nd floor. The t-stats are staged to kick the gas in first and then the electric second when the Lopi can't keep up. That said, I left the Lopi set at "4" out of 6 running a mix of Somersets and FSU's. In 30*F weather this will result in 1st floor at 71-72*F and 2nd at 68-69*F. This morning upstairs was 67*F, where the electric will kick in and downstairs was 68*F where the gas will kick in. The Lopi was just hanging on, and the gas kicked in for one cycle at 6am. I can't complain, I can turn up the Lopi more if it remains that cold, and it would seem that I'm getting pretty good performance from a stove that only cranks out 30K btu's tops. Probably burned a little better than half a bag? Cold again tonight.....

 

[Boobo0]

Was 6 deg. here this a.m., the Harman chuckled and said, "That's all ya got?"

 

[kenstogie]

well i used a diff pellet last night Green Team Platinum from Lowes....... alot more hest out of those thann the North American's from HD ( and other places too ) was about 76 downstairs and 65 upstairs. temps were warmer at about 23 f outside.

I did notice that not all the pellets in the burn pot are completely bunred and i used basically the entire bag in the 12 hour stretch.

 

[mepellet]

Was 6 deg. here this a.m., the Harman chuckled and said, "That's all ya got?"

And here I thought I had ghosts downstairs

 

[Xena]

10 degrees out this morn. St Croix on #2 setting with Okanagans in the hopper giving 71 degrees in living room.

 

[WoodPorn]

You can fit 18 more...I'll take the other 4!

 

[WoodPorn]

What I have found is that the smaller pellets FEED faster,... therefore making it necessary to reduce feed rate for comparable consumption,....... (what the hell did I just say?)

Basically,... if you really want to compare pellets, one should notice the overall consumption. Everyone notices right away that Somersets make so much more heat than there previous brand,... what they dont consider is that the Sets probably feed faster too,... more fuel = more heat.

I haven't seen any faster consumption with Somersets, not noteable anyway. I'm sure if I put in a bag of NEWP's I'd see a difference, but I've seen those things be over 2.5"

 

[WoodPorn]

Maybe I've just been burning them too long...
My stove rarely makes it over feed rate 2 though.

 

[Mrpelletburner]

Located in central mass, 1k sq ft, split level.
Outside: ~20deg
Stove: Harman Accentra
Temp (side of house with stove): 70
Temp (other side): 64
NEWP room temp 70 max feed 4.5


Bedrooms are always 3-5deg colder. Really wish I could get more of an even heat across the house.

 

[WoodPorn]

Located in central mass, 1k sq ft, split level.
Outside: ~20deg
Stove: Harman Accentra
Temp (side of house with stove): 70
Temp (other side): 64
NEWP room temp 70 max feed 4.5


Bedrooms are always 3-5deg colder. Really wish I could get more of an even heat across the house.

Ceiling/distribution fans??

 

[Mrpelletburner]

No fans or ceiling fans. Would like to get a vertical fan setup for the hallway

 

[WoodPorn]

Either would make a vast difference.