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Portage & Main / Re: bl34-44 fire going out

« on: February 04, 2016, 05:33:24 PM »

I am going to be trying a few different things as far as loading, blower damper and size of the wood. I did find one thing that I was doing that the stove did not like which was filling it with logs facing left to right instead of front to back. In my last stove I would stagger it when I loaded it but this one for whatever reason does not like that method. I appreciate all the help and suggestions.. I will update after a week or so with my progress

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Portage & Main / Re: bl34-44 fire going out

« on: February 03, 2016, 08:13:01 AM »

I will be giving that a try over the next couple of days. I filled it this morning like that hopefully it will be good when I get home. I also would like to know what timer people are using for the fan shut off that slimjim has talked about. I have the honeywell strap on ordered but couldn't figure out what timer. Thanks in advance for any help on this.

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Portage & Main / Re: bl34-44 fire going out

« on: February 02, 2016, 07:09:37 PM »

Thanks for the feedback. My stove has shaker grates do to buying in January they couldn't sell me wood model like I wanted. I don't know if this is where th problem lies or if I just can't get a good coal bed established. It is raining now(suck) so I am going to try tomorrow splitting up some smaller pieces to see what that does. I have tried 10 Degree diff and had fire go out twice so moved to 5 and have lost twice again now. I don't know how much the diff change really helps me even at 5 do to creep that I get wil go to 192-193 even at a 5 spread. So ends up being 12-13 degree diff before fan kicks back on. The stove burns great fast recovery, clean but so sick of having to go out and relight this thing in the morning or worrying if I'm going to wake up to a cold house or not. I try to feed the stove only the amount of wood to get by maybe 6-7 splits 20-22" long. Every time my fire has gone out its not do to lack of wood.

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Portage & Main / bl34-44 fire going out

« on: February 02, 2016, 09:59:31 AM »

I just installed this unit do to my ridgewood not being able to keep up with 12 hour burn times when dipping below 20 degrees. The unit is engineered very well, great design  but I am having a hell of a time keeping the fire going. I have dif set at 5 set temp at 185. Weather has been warm 30-40 degrees. Burning split seasoned oak heating 4000sq ft. I went with this model do to future demand with pole building. The one thing I liked with my ridgewood was it could be 60 out and not call for heat all day but at night it would always fire back up would light a fire once a year and that was it!! I hope there is something I can do to keep this from being a continuing battle with milder weather.  Any info would be greatly appreciated