I have a house that is heated by baseboard heaters and I am thinking of getting a electric fireplace for the living room. Both are 2000W. The fireplace will have a fan – which will use more energy, but spread the heat through the room faster. Which one will be more energy efficient?
We’re installing a pellet stove insert in our existing fireplace. The manufacturer, Harman, instructs that a steel plate should be installed with rock wool (mineral wool) inside the chimney. The rock wool is handy for condensation as well as fire retardant purposes, but what’s the purpose of the steel plate?
we just installed our pellet stove and somehow lost the manual. what is bad too is i only have my web on my phone this weekend! (so i cannot download pdf files!) help
The control board for this stove has an Auger on/off switch. This stove was given to me by a friend who ran it for years. The switch for the Auger was bad so we soldered on two pieces of wire to the back of the Control board to a new toggle switch. We used the stove for a little while, it ran fine. Then the toggle switch must of pressed against the metal door for the control board causing a little spark. The augar motor instantly stopped. I unplugged the wires to the augar motor, tested to see if power was going through the actuall control board, and it is. The motor will not run hooked up to the control board, but if I hook up an extension coard from the wall with spliced ends the motor runs fine. There is a little glass fuse on the back of the control board that is Not blown. The stove "starts up" and the combustion and distribution blowers work, but the augar will not.
