kugss
ArboristSite Operative
For those of you that have a 28-3500 how often do you have to clean the glass door? It seems like i do it once a week. Scrape mine with a razor blade.
Try dampining a crumpled piece of newspaper .dip it in ash dust and rub on the glass.Finish with a paper towel before the glass dries.
May be a romanticized "old way" that may scratch the glass? Bringing in combustion air thru the intake above the door should keep the glass cleaner= air comes in above door & HAS TO dive down ,across the glass, to get to the flame or hottest spot [coals] due to air density factors.Oh yah?..whats the purpose of the ash dust? does it create a chemical barrier?
I set my dampers the same as Mustang. I do crack the ash door open for a few minutes to get the morning logs going again though.
Another thing I did was to install a flu damper. $4 at TSC. This helped slow the draft down giving me longer burn times. I like you, picked up a magnetic thermometer and try to keep it above 300.
Here's a pic of my door glass after 1 month of burning.
MH knocks the fluetemp down to 300*f & wont blow unless the thing heats up & theres no power outage. Its also purported to condense more creo in chimni from cooling the fluegas so chimni vigilance is warranted. Nelson2 has 1 ready for the dump [silly] but may be u can get a deal for the MH from himI'm burning ash. Thanks to a little insect (EAB) I've got a few cords stacked and ready to burn. A dozen or so trees still standing but definately on the way out. They'll burn good next season.
I'm with you on the ash pan. My buddy has a hot blast and the pan is much smaller. I do like the shaker grate though.
This is my first year with the 3500. We love it. It's funny how many times a day I check the house thermostat and shake my head. When using propane we would keep the house 66°. With the add-on it stays above 70°(normally @74°). Have had to crack a window alot so far. Not a bad problem to have. We have a large ranch (3K) with a full basement. So far, the 3500 has kept up just fine. I have been eyeing a magic heat reclaimer for the flue. I think about all the heat going out the chimney. I figured dumping into the basement couldn't hurt. I'm getting greedy with the heat.
when my setup was using my forced oil furnace blower to do the work i could get my englander to get my 2,000 sqft house over 90 if i left it on ,usually for most people high 70's is more comfortable than 90 lol but it can be done ,theres disadvantages to running a giant single blower off your house furnace .the nice thing about running the factory 875 cfm blower and maybe a medium size addon like mine is it wont super cool the firebox or burn up major electricity like a large duct propane /oil furnaces blowers do cause some of them are rated at 2500+ cfm and have a half horse or more engines ,2 squirrel fans are like 1/8 of one horsepower and use less than 10 bucks extra a month in the electric bill.the addition of my added blower (yes its wired in sync with factory one ) is now noticably better in feel of the pressure from the registers and it really doesnt add anything to the electric bill as far as i can tell ,its just enough extra to move more air yet wont prematurely cool my firebox,the longer you keep the firebox warm the longer the you have effective heat instead of thermodisk kicking blowers off 2 hours too early
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