For years I put up with what seemed like a very long time to get a fire started in the Old Earth Stove (Pellet)
Now I am talking about manually lit fires, you folks with the auto lighters can sit smuggly in the corner and grin.
The Old stove would take possibly 20 minutes to be to the point that I could walk away from it.
The startup timer was nowhere near long enough to get the low temp sensor activated so it required at least two times pushing the button or the fire would likely go out.
Both the little and the large Whitfield can be lit and fully up and going in less than 5 minutes and I can be off doing other things.
I toss in a handfull of pellets, then get the exhaust fan going followed by a generous application of the propane torch.
With likely less than a full minute the pellets are burning and I close the door and let the draft go to work getting the fire going good. Within another minute I turn the feed switch on and its off to the rodeo.
Depending on how much heat we need, I may adjust the feed up or down, but usually start the thing on the number 2 setting.
Sure is nice not having to babysit the stove for a long time period.
We have had the Quadrafire 1000 for 17 years and just turning up the T Stat was nice but the cost of pellets has driven me back to basics with the nut shells.
Now we use the Quad only when we can't be home and then set it to a low setting (65F)
Hate coming home after a weekend to a COLD house.
Ahhhhh Yes, the comforts of home eh ??
Snowy
Now I am talking about manually lit fires, you folks with the auto lighters can sit smuggly in the corner and grin.
The Old stove would take possibly 20 minutes to be to the point that I could walk away from it.
The startup timer was nowhere near long enough to get the low temp sensor activated so it required at least two times pushing the button or the fire would likely go out.
Both the little and the large Whitfield can be lit and fully up and going in less than 5 minutes and I can be off doing other things.
I toss in a handfull of pellets, then get the exhaust fan going followed by a generous application of the propane torch.
With likely less than a full minute the pellets are burning and I close the door and let the draft go to work getting the fire going good. Within another minute I turn the feed switch on and its off to the rodeo.
Depending on how much heat we need, I may adjust the feed up or down, but usually start the thing on the number 2 setting.
Sure is nice not having to babysit the stove for a long time period.
We have had the Quadrafire 1000 for 17 years and just turning up the T Stat was nice but the cost of pellets has driven me back to basics with the nut shells.
Now we use the Quad only when we can't be home and then set it to a low setting (65F)
Hate coming home after a weekend to a COLD house.
Ahhhhh Yes, the comforts of home eh ??
Snowy