First post! Been reading up and educating myself regarding pellet stoves on this great site.
Here's my question--
I have been using an old Harman Invincible Insert that came with my recently bought house. It normally works great. Now we have a power outage-- 13 hours and counting. I hooked up the Harman pellet stove to my EU3000i Honda Inverter/Generator and the stove is not running the same way as when plugged into the house current.
I always run it in stove temp mode with fan on high and it normally blows air into the run constantly. Now the distribution fan turns on and off intermittently. This keeps the house cooler than normal. I also have to keep the temp dial set at 6 instead of 4 to get the same sized flame. The flame is not as energetic as it normally is under regular power.
I checked the voltage and it is a rock steady 120v. I don't know the actual amperage output but running the stove by itself or with my fridge on, light on, and all computer eqpt on makes no difference. Seems like plenty of amperage available. The generator output is rated at around 23amps.
This is the first time I have had this generator hooked up. I'm happy the house is warm and I have necessary electric but am perplexed by the different operation of the stove. My only theory is that when the power went off and on several times this morning before the outage it scrambled the brains of the circuit board on the stove and now it permanently thinks it is in room temp mode (with varying motor speeds) and not in stove temp mode.
Any ideas/suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
Paul in Western Mass.
Here's my question--
I have been using an old Harman Invincible Insert that came with my recently bought house. It normally works great. Now we have a power outage-- 13 hours and counting. I hooked up the Harman pellet stove to my EU3000i Honda Inverter/Generator and the stove is not running the same way as when plugged into the house current.
I always run it in stove temp mode with fan on high and it normally blows air into the run constantly. Now the distribution fan turns on and off intermittently. This keeps the house cooler than normal. I also have to keep the temp dial set at 6 instead of 4 to get the same sized flame. The flame is not as energetic as it normally is under regular power.
I checked the voltage and it is a rock steady 120v. I don't know the actual amperage output but running the stove by itself or with my fridge on, light on, and all computer eqpt on makes no difference. Seems like plenty of amperage available. The generator output is rated at around 23amps.
This is the first time I have had this generator hooked up. I'm happy the house is warm and I have necessary electric but am perplexed by the different operation of the stove. My only theory is that when the power went off and on several times this morning before the outage it scrambled the brains of the circuit board on the stove and now it permanently thinks it is in room temp mode (with varying motor speeds) and not in stove temp mode.
Any ideas/suggestions are welcome. Thanks!
Paul in Western Mass.