XXV may have to go

[canuck_22]

Tech will be here Thursday morning...keep you posted on the outcome.

 

[Jim H.]

good luck

 

[bogieb]

Tech will be here Thursday morning...keep you posted on the outcome.

We look forward to your report.

 

[canuck_22]

It will surely be an interesting day, to keep or not to keep, I'm receiving all kinds of emails to buy it, actually all I need to do is say yes to one of them. I need a 100 % guarantee that whatever gets done to the venting is a sure bet, "let's see if this and that will work" wont cut it.

 

[RealGene]

LOL...then we'll let an expert comment on it I guess, unless you can explain odd

The XXV appears to be venting directly under perforated soffit vents. Try taking a CO reading in the attic space above those soffits.

 

[Ambient]

We look forward to your report.

Not only am I looking at this model for purchase, but we have some "Trade Winds" to contend with here. I was reading this thread yesterday and I also am looking forward to your report.

 

[canuck_22]

Tech did not make it due to adverse road conditions, I lost my morning waiting, the stove is sold!! I'm done with this.

 

[Jim H.]

Sorry to hear that. From what I have seen I tend to agree that the exhaust is way to close to the soffits. Would be interesting to see if you get another stove and do nothing else what your results would be? I love mine....has been a tank so far. Please keep us posted. Good luck.

 

[canuck_22]

Sorry to hear that. From what I have seen I tend to agree that the exhaust is way to close to the soffits. Would be interesting to see if you get another stove and do nothing else what your results would be? I love mine....has been a tank so far. Please keep us posted. Good luck.

We are going gas on that side of the house. The P61A will be my workhorse, a new gas furnace is coming in the spring, the air handler with it's ECM motor will be on 24/7 and distribute the heat evenly, the furnace guy is taking all this in consideration and knows his stuff.

 

[canuck_22]

Got up this morning, the wife says it's a dam shame, can't agree more. We drove to Ottawa, while the Mrs was getting her massage I went to a fireplace store, we talked pellet stove(my XXV) and we talked gas stove, the guys there with 30 some years experience convinces me to lower my exhaust to 1 24 inch section and the new Duravent jet cap, this now gives me a whopping 58 1/2 inches to the soffit. So now I put the stove in test mode, plug in the magnehelic gauge, wham, off the scale on the initial high and then -.80 at low speed, the problem, cant go any lower. Why such a drastic difference? What do I do? BTW I did not start the stove.

 

[Bioburner]

Jet cap helped the draft.
When I tried to adjust a new board the fan was able to go into a pulse mode it got so low so it's interesting you can't get the fan lower

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Oh well.

 

[Luv2burnPellets]

I think you can live with -.8 if that is as low as it can get, which is pretty close to the recommended setting. Fire it up!

 

[railfanron]

I would fire up the stove with the fan speed set around the center of the travel and after the stove is fired up I would drop the fan trim a little at a time, waiting a few minutes for things to stabilize before making another adjustment, until no pellets popcorn out of the firepot.
Ron

 

[canuck_22]

Oh well.

LOL..."Oh well"...that's it?

 

[Bioburner]

Think he's referring to your posting late Thursday,

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Remember the first item in my PM to you?

 

[canuck_22]

Think he's referring to your posting late Thursday,

LOL...I know, it's just that the lady is upset we are taking a bath for 2k, last minute ditch effort on my part.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Think he's referring to your posting late Thursday,

Not really Bioburner.

 

[canuck_22]

Remember the first item in my PM to you?

Just revisited that, are you are talking about the very first thing you wrote?

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Just revisited that, are you talking the very first thing you said? you have 3-4 things in that PM

Actually everything in the PM.

But this speaks directly to your original reason for this post

You have to comply with the natural laws in order to be safe and basically venting below any intake system is a cause for concern.
In your case the wind is going to send the exhaust into that soffit if it comes from the right direction and it will not do much in the way of reducing the concentration of items in the exhaust due to the closeness. What happens after that is going to depend upon the various systems inside the house, the vent is going to try to remove it but the rate may not get enough of it fast enough to prevent whatever is inside the house from pulling some into the house.
You need to get that venting pointed away from the house and properly capped at the very least so less exhaust finds its way into the attic. Further down from the soffit also allows the concentration of the exhaust to be reduced because of mixing with the air.

 

[canuck_22]

Ok, well as I said, I'm now 581/2 below the soffit, the jet cap apparently(according to duravent) blows the flue gases further away, cant be a bad thing. My only concern at this point before I fire it back up is the lack of adjustement on the draft, I'll be dumping lot's heat outside, the pipe will be hot I guest.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Didn't you sell that stove?

 

[canuck_22]

Didn't you sell that stove?

Only if I say yes, deal. He's waiting for my phone call, he wants me to hold it for him.

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

Only if I say yes, deal. He's waiting for my phone call, he wants me to hold it for him.

Ok, you said it was sold, I couldn't figure out wth you were playing with it for. Trust me that new venting system should also help with the 6 blink stuff.