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[schoppy]

A friend of mine has the E-Classic but I am not sure which model other than it is one of the largest ones. He has the option they offer to monitor the unit through his smart phone. They have a lot of info they provide and one item is the secondary burn temps, he shoed this to me on his phone. I don't know where exactly they take the reading at but when he showed it to me it was over 1000 F but not sure at what point in the burn cycle.

Oh how burning wood has evolved and gotten complicated. I still have the forced air wood furnace I built over 30 years ago sitting in my garage, not being used any more. I'd hate to guess how many cords of wood has gone through that baby.

[schoppy]

Hey mlappin, when your unit is off and has been for awhile do you get smoke coming out of your chimney? 

[mlappin]

I seem to recall awhile back when I drove over to Topeka Indiana to one of CB’s dealers a E2400 with that option was about $2000 more than the G400’s MSRP, but don’t hold me to that, has been a couple of years ago.

I get some smoke after it shuts down, especially on a fresh load of wood. I would’t think this is abnormal as fresh air can find it’s way down the stack allowing some smoke to escape. Can’t ever have a perfectly tight seal on the primary and secondary burn chamber unless they had a damper in the stack as well.

[hondaracer2oo4]

Would this work to convert the thermocouple to something that the logo will read??  http://www.omega.com/pptst/TAC80B.html

[schoppy]

Not sure about that adaptor honda.

Hey mlappin one thing I found out regarding the cycling of the unit after it shuts off when reaching 180 degrees. Ryan at the factory told me on the G400 (maybe all G models are the same?) the venter comes on 1 hour after the unit has reached 180 and runs for 5 minutes. Then every 30 minutes after that it comes on and runs for 3 minutes until the temperature falls to 160 to kick back in and start the cycling all over again. I always like to know how things are supposed to work in case there are problems later.

Well the parts that I have been looking for since the first part of December finally shipped on the 16th and evidently it takes 15 days to get from North Dakota to Wisconsin because they aren't scheduled to be delivered until the 31st, very frustrating.

[mlappin]

Hows things going now with the new parts schoppy?

[schoppy]

It's a little long, I'll send you a PM.

[BIG AL]

I had an issue with my g200 in warmer weather not relighting after long down times between burns. The factory setting is every 90 min it does a 3 min cycle. We reset mine to every 45 min for 5 min and the problem is gone.

[hondaracer2oo4]

Looking at my monitoring software it looks like my 2015 model year g200 does a 90 min purge cycle for 3 mins on the initial first purge, if it idles again for another 60 mins after the first purge cycle then it purges again at 60 min intervals for 3 mins there on out until it hits 160 and does a full cycle, starting the the 90/60 cycle again.

[schoppy]

Hey Big Al how did you reset your purge settings? Is it something a home owner can do or is it a dealer only feature?

[mlappin]

Hey Big Al how did you reset your purge settings? Is it something a home owner can do or is it a dealer only feature?

Some settings are locked on the controller, your dealer needs a “chip” to unlock the controller to reset certain parameters.

[hondaracer2oo4]

I tried to play with th controller a little bit but I couldn't decipher the mumbo jumbo that came up, it was not straight forward. I looked at the logo manual online and that was no help.

[BIG AL]

Schoppy , Richard was able to get the information from heatmaster and he passed it on to me. They probably don't want me to share it but I would if someone was to say it was ok

[schoppy]

No problem, just curious as to how it was done.

[hondaracer2oo4]

Well this is the first real cold weather we have seen. -15 This morning with a sustained 20mph wind and 35 mph gusts. Wind Chills in the -35 range. Loaded the boiler 3/4 full yesterday at 6am. Wife ran the house at 71 while I was at work and the outside temps ran around 10 degrees for a high with 15mph sustained wind. She loaded it at 6pm and wood was still to the bottom of the door frame, she couldn't fit everything I gave her in. I got home this morning to the boiler idling at 178 degrees. Opened it up and had a coal bed all the way up to the bottom of the door frame. Through in 3 splits and I am letting it burn down a little. Ill go check it in a while. It has warmed up to -6 this morning at 11am. COLD! Boiler is taking all of this in stride. Indoor FHA fan is running 8 mins off and 9 mins on when I got home. Started a fire in the Woodstock soapstone stove. Shes cruising at 500 degrees now. FHA hasn't run in probably 45 mins.