futureboiler said:most of the time i have it on hi using the thermostat. i have alot of mis-fires that way though, sometimes i would come home to a pretty chilly house. the build up of ash, and the constant relighting would build up so much when i came home there was a pile of unburnt pellets sitting on top of a pile of ash. i rewired the stove a few years back like tj, and i can turn the fan on hi manually, or leave it H-M-L, wherever the switch is set. i felt this was a mistake on Quads part, the fan on low is rediculous. today was a little cold and the stove was hot this morning, so i couldnt clean the burn pot so i put it on low feed and switched the fan to high.
anyone else have alot of misfires, and what seems to me more than frequent cleaning of the burn pot? i know i am running a pretty junky pellet right now, need to get down to the good stuff, but even with the pellets the stove likes the best it seems pretty frequent.
Misfires are very rare for me - maybe a couple a season. Buildup in the pot differs widely according to which pellets I burn. All of them leave a little ash by the end of the day. But really bad pellets can half fill the pot with clinkers and ash. Good ones, and its just dusting the bottom, maybe 1/8 inch. A pot half-filled with clinkers and ash can easily misfire.futureboiler said:anyone else have alot of misfires, and what seems to me more than frequent cleaning of the burn pot? i know i am running a pretty junky pellet right now, need to get down to the good stuff, but even with the pellets the stove likes the best it seems pretty frequent.
futureboiler said:Are all 8 small holes open? Is your trap door hanging down too far so that you can slip a dime between it and the burnpot?
yes all 8 holes are open. and i do check to make sure they are not plugged up frequently. should i be able to slip a dime in between? i bet its pretty tight right now. i do give it a good cleaning removing the top plate and the pieces on the backwall inside. i am intrigued that all the ash is blown out of your pot. how often do you have to dump your pot?
at one point i commented on another board about not having a gasket on my door on the top of it. i was informed it was for the airwash. but i also remeber something about older models dont have it on the top, and newer models dont have it on the bottom, or vise-versa. i can, of course be dreaming all this stuff up too.
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