CO alarm EFM 520
Posted: Tue. Mar. 13, 2018 10:44 am
So I got my EFM up and running a few days ago. All was going well until 4:30 this morning. I woke up to the sound of the CO alarm going of in basement. Went down to look it was right around 40 ppm had peaked around 152ppm. I checked the burner pot and the bed of coal was deep inside the pot and a real small lazy flame, I check the hopper barrel and it was pretty much empty. So I filled it back up turned the auger by hand to get more coal in the pot. 10 min later everything seemed to be back to normal. Including reading of 0 ppm. So I assume that because a ran low on fuel the flu gas could not maintain enough heat to rise and so I lost draft resulting in the CO.
I’m basically just looking for confirmation that you guys agree with me. I also am wondering what you do when you shutdown for the summer do you have the same problem when you let the fire go out. If you run all summer do you have a hard time with draft due to the warmer ambient air temps.
Thanks
Scott
I’m basically just looking for confirmation that you guys agree with me. I also am wondering what you do when you shutdown for the summer do you have the same problem when you let the fire go out. If you run all summer do you have a hard time with draft due to the warmer ambient air temps.
Thanks
Scott