Just Installed Replacemement Auto Draft on 30-95

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Post by smokeyCityTeacher » Fri. Dec. 18, 2009 9:26 pm

Had been controlling with only the front slider on ash door until I got the auto draft replacement part the other day. Now I dial it in and it adjusts the flap as needed to maintain the same temperature as measures against the back of the stove.
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Dog was not included with the unit. He is a pure Yellow Lab who loves to hunt and lay in front of the stove.

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The Hitzer folks recommend calibrating on a cold stove by making setting 0 be a tight chain on a closed flap. No way was I gonna sit in a cold basement so I eyeballed it and its working. I can always get my baseline corrected on a warm day but as someone recently said in a similar thread - the numbers don't mean anything anyway - they might as well be written in Klingon. Stack temp stays around 175 for a setting of 4 and that's good enough for me.

The important thing is that it adjusts the draft to maintain a constant setting and it is working very well on day #1.

Set it and forget it. Love this little stove. <3

 
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Post by 009to090 » Fri. Dec. 18, 2009 9:31 pm

Awesome! Hey, your dog REALLY likes the warmth from it, huh? :D ;)

 
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Post by smokeyCityTeacher » Fri. Dec. 18, 2009 9:48 pm

DVC500 at last wrote:Awesome! Hey, your dog REALLY likes the warmth from it, huh? :D ;)
He lives there!

All I need now is to install the hopper when it arrives and ill be legit


 
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Post by duck » Fri. Dec. 18, 2009 11:24 pm

Smoky City,
Did you buy this stove brand new from a dealer? No hopper and a defective draft control is a bunch of problems. When our new Hitzer was delivered earlier this year there was no blower packaged in the stove, we did get the variable speed control for it. We contacted them and one was shipped out immediately. You'll love the hopper good luck and let us know how it works foe you.

 
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Post by smokeyCityTeacher » Sat. Dec. 19, 2009 1:52 am

duck wrote:Smoky City,
Did you buy this stove brand new from a dealer? No hopper and a defective draft control is a bunch of problems. When our new Hitzer was delivered earlier this year there was no blower packaged in the stove, we did get the variable speed control for it. We contacted them and one was shipped out immediately. You'll love the hopper good luck and let us know how it works foe you.
I bought it used & as-is from a stove shop. It has all new gaskets, and extra door with glass and the blower unit is a new 185cfm rather than the standard 134cfm so I am not unhappy with the deal I got since installing the new draft unit took 10 minutes.

As soon as I'm sure the hopper is working correctly I'll install the baro damper and burn nothing but coal.

Now I have to buy a wood stove because once the baro goes on, the wood stays out. :(

 
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Post by 9mmruger » Mon. Dec. 21, 2009 10:03 am

I will never go back to wood, unless Congress's Cap and Tax drives up the price of anthracite so we can't afford it. I have been burning since Sept 28th here in Michigan and have used 36 1/2 bags so far. That is 85 days. Works out to .42 bags per day. Can't beat that for economical. Under $100.00 per month. When I used propane it was about $400.00 per month. Yikes. I love coal! :D

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