Update on Hudson River Saranac Stove

[PhatT]

Seems like you have the same problems I had, they replaced pots, blowers, fixed rattles, replaced the stove 2x with no results. Finally the unit was switched out for another brand. I used 1/2 as many pellets for the 2nd and coldest part of the season after the replacement.

 

[sammypoodle]

I called Hudson River tech support and they send me a new burn pot. I really think it made very little or no change. I guess I may get a little less ash in the burn pot because they took the wool high temp gasket (like what is used around the doors) to seal up the lower holes in the burn pot. This directs the air flow differently. I must be lucky because for the most part my stove works fine. I do know it likes the pellets to be "clean" otherwise I had a lot of intermitted noises, etc.......On your convection blower do you have 2 distinct low and high settings? My stove on low you can barely hear it and on high you know its on. The dealer sent me a new convection motor for some bearing noise. This one seems on low to be louder and running faster and on high again seems louder than my old one but seems to push a lot more air than the old one. Which is correct? The low/high one or the new medium high/high running motor.

 

[jed12674]

My convection blower (room air blower) seems to work with the 5 different heat settings. It gets a little faster with each setting I think, atleast it seems like it does. On low mine is the same as yours, you can barely hear it run, on 2 it gets a little more audible, 3 a little more, and so on.

As far as the auger noise, at first I could hear some crunching and snapping every once in awhile due to it breaking up long pellets. Now I don't seem to hear it as much.

I have had this stove for 2 seasons now. The first season it put out alot of heat and seemed to work pretty good. Went through alot of pellets the first season (7 ton) but my house is old and there was no insulation in the second story of my home. I did have the stairway closed off but there was still alot of heat loss. The second season wasn't to bad at first till half way through the season the pot seemed to over fill with pellets and eventually put the fire out. I couldn't run the stove on anything higher than setting 2 or unburnt pellets would overfill the burn pot in about an hours time.
I clean it every 2 or 3 days during the heating season, including the vent pipe. And after every ton of pellets I take both blower motors off and vacuum out everything. After taking it all apart 3 weeks ago and really getting inside it to clean all the ash out of the ports behind the back wall of the fire box I think I had a poor draft problem. Before the second season I had the stove for I did not take it all apart like I did this year to clean it that extensive. Hoping it works better this year.

The vibration noise on mine only happened when the stove was on it highest setting and like I mentioned in yesterdays post I cured that problem. Ain't nothing more annoying than hearing that noise when your trying to relax, wind down, and watch a little tv. :lol: I will take a pic of the bracket I put in to solve that problem and post it later tonight.

Other than that, I do like the stove and for the most part it has worked pretty good. Atleast it did the first season anyway.

 

[jed12674]

Here is the pic of the convection blower on my pellet stove. I added a bracket to keep it from vibrating. Bracket is just a piece of flat stock with each end bent at an angle with a hole drilled at each end.