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TUNING YOUR STOVE
After your stove is installed and ready for use there will be a period of time where some
adjustments may be necessary to fit your specific needs from the stove. We like to refer to this
as “getting to know your stove”. Each stove demonstrates its own unique personality based
upon; type of pellet fuel, elevation, square footage you are heating, barometric pressures,
common wind currents, natural drafts within your home to name a few.
Specifically this means learning how often you will need to dump ashes, clear the secondary
burn plate, experiment with different brand pellets and determining what position the damper
slide needs to be in to get your specific desired results (more information on tuning the stove in
helpful hints section). After you have become familiar with the stove it is possible that you may
need to adjust the primary burn cage.
The primary burn basket that comes with every stove is sent out at a preset measurement. This
measurement fits most applications but sometimes a user will need to make an adjustment.
This is simple to perform; we find the best tools for widening the basket is two chisels (see
illustration below). For narrowing the spacing use a pair of pliers (see illustration below).
The three black arrows indicate the three spaces where pellets drop through the basket and on
to the secondary burn plate. The minimum spacing should not be adjusted to less than .290 or
on a tape measure the closest mark would be just under the 19/64”mark. The maximum
adjustment should not exceed .320 or just over the 5/16” mark on a tape measure.
Only make small adjustments at a time as you will discover a small adjustment can result in a
drastic temperature change.
Narrowing will slow the pellet feed rate resulting in lower running
temperature. Widening will result in an increased pellet feed rate resulting in a higher running
temperature.
