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Re: I Must Be Doing Something Very Wrong...

Posted: Fri. Jan. 08, 2010 8:26 pm
by JKinPA
Badog wrote:JK,
I am in the Lehigh Valley and I am heating a 35 year old house so the insulation and windows are not that good. It does seem like you are burning a lot more coal than you should for what you are heating. I normally run my stove at about 2.5 to 3 on a scale of 1 to 5 or about 50% of its capacity by the amount of burning coal. During the coldest and windiest nights I did turn it up to 4.5 but I have not yet run it at 5.
I work in Bethlehem live in the poconos so there is about a 10 degree temperature differance on average.

My house is actually older that yours built in the '50's

If I run my stove at it's highest level the ash pan would over flow over night.
Joe

Re: I Must Be Doing Something Very Wrong...

Posted: Sat. Jan. 09, 2010 6:21 pm
by JKinPA
JKinPA wrote:
LsFarm wrote:JKinPA, could you post a few photos of your ash, your idle fire and full fire??

Is you ash fully burnt? or is there a lot of black, unburnt coal in the ashpan??

Greg L
I will get the photos up here. There is alot of black unburnt coal in the ash pan. I'll photo that tonight when I empty.

Joe
Ok Here are the photos...The one thing that is not shown is the 12" high flame that is up when in Running High Mode.