summers heat 49-shcpm

[SmokeyTheBear]

If your stove is now clean you might want to explain the same flame height that Lake Girl is asking about.

First I'll ask if you have that stove on a thermostat?

Then if not on a thermostat, I'll ask if you have the jumper installed on the control board?

Depending on the answers you provide there I'd likely ask you to time the auger as well as a few other questions.

However and this is the reason I didn't pay any attention to the flame height, if the stove is dirty it is also likely that the flame height is so out of whack it is meaningless. An example when my stove has reached the pile up stage the flame always looks the same no matter what firing rate I put the stove into.

 

[Lake Girl]

thanks for all the information so far. i got rid of my fuel oil furnace last year and i did all the cleaning and maintenance on it. im probably not cleaning it correctly but believe me it aint for the lack of trying.

Before the Leaf Blower Trick, this is what the manual mentions:
" Check inside stove and exhaust pipes for blockage. Tap inside walls of Firebox, clean behind the lower access plates (located on the back inside wall, next to the burnpot);
clean burnpot and Firebox vent holes above firebrick panel. "

Along with tapping inside walls, many folks use a bottle brush, dryer lint brush to get up between the two walls at the back of the stove through the lower access plates. I have a hose to hook up on the shop vac to get up in there too. What you may miss the leaf blower should suck out ... remember to disconnect vac switch!

Once it is clean, should have a good starting point to figure out flame height...

Edit: Forgot to mention, some of the Englander stove owners (which includes summers heat) have been noticing that the hopper gasket is not thick enough to form a good continuous seal on the hopper lid. This will effect flame as well.

 

[michael updyke]

where is the vac. Switch?

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

where is the vac. Switch?

I'd have to read the manual. .

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Page 28 number 23 in green IIRC. There is a hose going to it and I believe the switch is round.

 

[michael updyke]

found the vacuume hose and disconected it. ok vacuumed scraped cleaned and did the leaf blower trick. now at heat setting 3 it is burning the pellets just as fast as they are dropping. flames are about 3 inches. something big got sucked up into the leaf blower and got chopped up by the mulcher and got spit out. i could tell it was big cause of the noise it made. im betting whatever that was was a big part of it. its burning the pellets more efficient now than when it was brand new. any chance something was lodged somewhere from shipping or at the factory?.the flame is blue at the bottom orange and yellowish at the top.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

found the vacuume hose and disconected it. ok vacuumed scraped cleaned and did the leaf blower trick. now at heat setting 3 it is burning the pellets just as fast as they are dropping. flames are about 3 inches. something big got sucked up into the leaf blower and got chopped up by the mulcher and got spit out. i could tell it was big cause of the noise it made. im betting whatever that was was a big part of it. its burning the pellets more efficient now than when it was brand new. any chance something was lodged somewhere from shipping or at the factory?.the flame is blue at the bottom orange and yellowish at the top.

Not likely from something lodged at the factory. Glad it is working better, I'd reset things back to factory default if you hadn't all ready and see if things are fine.

That stove (or its cousin) has the record for burning without opening the door on here during a challenge a couple years ago. They burn very well when they are given a chance.

 

[michael updyke]

its burning real well now. gonna reset the factory settings after it burns this bag up. that way i can compare them. i wonder what it was. i could her it come right up the stove pipe then when it hit the leaf blower it sounded like it does when it sucks up a big chunk of wood them boom out it came looked like black bbs.

 

[slvrblkk]

Glad it's running good now. Is the stove working better on all levels now?

 

[michael updyke]

it is at level 5 and below. house is at 78 now as it is lol.

 

[slvrblkk]

it is at level 5 and below. house is at 78 now as it is lol.

Nice Better to have enough heat than not!

 

[michael updyke]

must say you people where alot of help. ty all alot. gonna try different heat settings as the week goes by.

 

[Lake Girl]

What came out, those little black bb's, was the mess of fly ash that was in the internal smoke paths from the last year of burning ... it tends to cake in the summer with the higher humidity. Glad it got all cleaned out If you do this about every ton of pellets, you won't have airflow problems. Let us know if you are still having flame height issues...

Something to keep in mind for the end of the burn season - After your LBT, cap/tape/seal somehow your exhaust and OAK inlet. I also put desiccant in the firebox to absorb any moisture that may find its way inside. You can get the holder and package of desiccant at the hardware - along with refill packages of just the desiccant. Just remember to remove whatever you used to seal up the exhaust and OAK before burning next season!

 

[michael updyke]

What came out, those little black bb's, was the mess of fly ash that was in the internal smoke paths from the last year of burning ... it tends to cake in the summer with the higher humidity. Glad it got all cleaned out If you do this about every ton of pellets, you won't have airflow problems. Let us know if you are still having flame height issues...

Something to keep in mind for the end of the burn season - After your LBT, cap/tape/seal somehow your exhaust and OAK inlet. I also put desiccant in the firebox to absorb any moisture that may find its way inside. You can get the holder and package of desiccant at the hardware - along with refill packages of just the desiccant. Just remember to remove whatever you used to seal up the exhaust and OAK before burning next season!

this makes sense now. As last year I didnt notice any problems like this then the first time I fired it up it started doing this. The pellets where in the hopper all summer to.

 

[bill3rail]

No question it needs cleaning and pulling the blower ... BTW, Make sure you have a replacement gasket to do this! And unplug the stove...

Cheap Exhaust Blower Gasket idea for you, and available at local oil burner supply store.

https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads...-blower-motor-gasket-pu-cbmg-for-2-14.117732/

Bill