experimenting w/ the new stove...Accentra free-standing, corner install.
I had the room temp probe coiled up on the floor right under the room air intake grate behind the stove. The stove maintained 70 in the room, as per a digital thermometer on the other side of the room. no problemo...
I decided to crank it up a bit, to see how this would affect temps in other rooms, etc. So I turned the setting up to 75. stove kicked itself up, for a little while, but started backing off when the temp had only gone up a degree or so. So I moved the probe out from behind the stove, as far as it could reach (which isn't very far), and put it along the baseboard. no change.
Next step: move the thermometer next to the probe, to see what the temp is there. (pita cuz it takes so long for the thing to adjust to a new temp). After a few minutes, it reported 75. ok...working as designed. stove thinks its 75 degrees.
I think whats happening here is that there is quite a bit of radiant heat coming off the sides of the stove, and that is being reflected into the walls in this corner, and the probe is going to pick that up, instead of the actual air temp.
So I moved the probe up to the window, and had it hooked onto the latch between the sashes. Thats higher than the stove, and should have the opposite effect of making the stove "think" its colder in the room than it actually is. The end of the probe was about 3" from the glass. I put the thermometer right next to it, to monitor.
Stove kicked itself up, but again, not very much. Flame wouldn't go above a medium height. I switched the fan switch to high range, and cranked it up on the dial...it kicked in on high for a short while (minute or 2), then shut off. every few minutes it would kick back on to full-blast for a short while, and then turn off. The thermometer never went above 71.5.
I have the feed rate set to 4; I don't think that is restricting the output, though, because when the stove starts up, the flame is as high as can be. The stove can make a bigger fire, if it wants to.
So this is a bit confusing. could the probe be bad? Is the end of it supposed to be completely encased in what looks like heat-shrink tubing?
next step, I suppose, is to extend it further away from the stove, but I'll have to pick up some wire to do that. Or, I guess I could open the window, and put it outside...see what it thinks of that!
I had the room temp probe coiled up on the floor right under the room air intake grate behind the stove. The stove maintained 70 in the room, as per a digital thermometer on the other side of the room. no problemo...
I decided to crank it up a bit, to see how this would affect temps in other rooms, etc. So I turned the setting up to 75. stove kicked itself up, for a little while, but started backing off when the temp had only gone up a degree or so. So I moved the probe out from behind the stove, as far as it could reach (which isn't very far), and put it along the baseboard. no change.
Next step: move the thermometer next to the probe, to see what the temp is there. (pita cuz it takes so long for the thing to adjust to a new temp). After a few minutes, it reported 75. ok...working as designed. stove thinks its 75 degrees.
I think whats happening here is that there is quite a bit of radiant heat coming off the sides of the stove, and that is being reflected into the walls in this corner, and the probe is going to pick that up, instead of the actual air temp.
So I moved the probe up to the window, and had it hooked onto the latch between the sashes. Thats higher than the stove, and should have the opposite effect of making the stove "think" its colder in the room than it actually is. The end of the probe was about 3" from the glass. I put the thermometer right next to it, to monitor.
Stove kicked itself up, but again, not very much. Flame wouldn't go above a medium height. I switched the fan switch to high range, and cranked it up on the dial...it kicked in on high for a short while (minute or 2), then shut off. every few minutes it would kick back on to full-blast for a short while, and then turn off. The thermometer never went above 71.5.
I have the feed rate set to 4; I don't think that is restricting the output, though, because when the stove starts up, the flame is as high as can be. The stove can make a bigger fire, if it wants to.
So this is a bit confusing. could the probe be bad? Is the end of it supposed to be completely encased in what looks like heat-shrink tubing?
next step, I suppose, is to extend it further away from the stove, but I'll have to pick up some wire to do that. Or, I guess I could open the window, and put it outside...see what it thinks of that!
