I'm on my third season with my Ravelli Roma and I have consistently had issues with combustion. I will summarize below and attach pictures.
After a thorough cleaning the stove will start and run properly for an hour or two before carbon or creosote will start to build up on the glass. It will start in the center/upper portion of the glass and spread to the entire glass if no action is taken. If I pull the front handle a few times back and forth, the glass will eventually clear up and the stove will appear to run normally for another hour or two before I will need to do it again. I will need to do this at regular intervals for as long as I run the stove. If I leave the stove unattended, the glass would darken, and the firepot would eventually overflow and the fire would spread to the ash pan. This happened once during my first season with the stove.
The Pellet feed is set to -5 and the combustion blower is set to +5.
I'm including a photo of two fire pots. The top one is from this season (purchased with my first ton in Sept) and the bottom is the pot I bought at the beginning of last season. You can see the new one is developing a crack in exactly the same spot. I scrapped the pot from my first season but it cracked in exact same spot.
I use Mantra softwood pellets.
I'm getting a little desperate now. At this point I cannot run the stove unless I am able to attend to it every couple hours. Any help you folks can be would be greatly appreciated.
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After a thorough cleaning the stove will start and run properly for an hour or two before carbon or creosote will start to build up on the glass. It will start in the center/upper portion of the glass and spread to the entire glass if no action is taken. If I pull the front handle a few times back and forth, the glass will eventually clear up and the stove will appear to run normally for another hour or two before I will need to do it again. I will need to do this at regular intervals for as long as I run the stove. If I leave the stove unattended, the glass would darken, and the firepot would eventually overflow and the fire would spread to the ash pan. This happened once during my first season with the stove.
The Pellet feed is set to -5 and the combustion blower is set to +5.
I'm including a photo of two fire pots. The top one is from this season (purchased with my first ton in Sept) and the bottom is the pot I bought at the beginning of last season. You can see the new one is developing a crack in exactly the same spot. I scrapped the pot from my first season but it cracked in exact same spot.
I use Mantra softwood pellets.
I'm getting a little desperate now. At this point I cannot run the stove unless I am able to attend to it every couple hours. Any help you folks can be would be greatly appreciated.
