Amazing!! AHS 130 Won't go Out After Shutdown

This past Spring I had to put a recycle timer on my boiler to keep it going. If I didn't have a call for hot water or heat it would go out in a matter of hours. Now that I want to clean it for the winter season it won't go out!!!! I shut it down on Sunday night and it is still going strong. I could flip the switch and be back in business immediately! I know it has to do with draft but I am only reading .0 to .01 at best. I don't want to empty the hopper for fear of exhaust gases but how else can I get it to go out? Amazing!

Ya can't! LOL friggin stoves seem to have minds of their own on occasion

That's comforting! !

Hey NWB, I wanted to shut the HITZER down a couple yrs back & the friggin thing was still goin after 4 days w/ the hopper still 1/3 full--emptyin it was the only way & she still burnt for another 24 hrs

That is a compact burn area, and the only area to supply air is from underneath. You must have good coal, an adequate draft and the perfect situation to support combustion. Lots of us have been saying for years that the fires will burn for several days with the controls turned off. If you need it to go out, either burn the hopper down and remove any extra coal, or wait a couple weeks for the burn to slowly quit. You know I am kidding, but if the fire is that low, you can ventilate and dismantle the blower assembly and have it out, on the floor in about 15 minutes. When we do service work, seldom do we have the luxury of the boiler being dead cold. Only do what you are comfortable with, no dead hero's needed.

I knew that the draft situation would be different this time of year versus the Spring, I just didn't realize it would be this different. Also you are correct WN the coal I am burning this year is so much better then the stuff in the past. I fired it back up for today as my family is tired of taking luke warm showers and being cold off of the oil burner. Tomorrow through Sunday will warm up, I am hoping the conditions will change enough for the boiler to die down then and I can clean it out by weekends end. We shall see. No dead hero's here!!!

See if this idea can work for you...

Disable the fan circuit and then force the grate circuit On to dump all the hot coals into the ash bucket. The hot coals will extinguish themself after being dumped/disturbed.
DO NOT ATTEMPT IF NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE WITH ELECTRICAL SAFETY

McGiever wrote:See if this idea can work for you...

Disable the fan circuit and then force the grate circuit On to dump all the hot coals into the ash bucket. The hot coals will extinguish themself after being dumped/disturbed.
DO NOT ATTEMPT IF NOT KNOWLEDGEABLE WITH ELECTRICAL SAFETY

Yea not in my wheelhouse so I will be patient, thanks for the input however.

I've never attempted to turn mine off in order to force/extingusih the fire, but I do know that it takes mine 20 to 21 days to go from a full hopper to empty (and fire out) when I shut it down at the end of summer for its annual cleaning. I plan for my target clean down date well in advance accordingly.

Wow 21 days on a hopper. With my heat load in winter I can go through a hopper in two days and another day for the fire to go out. If the temps are in the 50s I can get three days out of the hopper and two days from the burn pot.

Mac

lsayre wrote:but I do know that it takes mine 20 to 21 days to go from a full hopper to empty

So 21 days and how many hours? probably depends on the tidal effects of Jupiter

I'm always impressed with your well kept statistical information partner

macdabs wrote:Wow 21 days on a hopper. With my heat load in winter I can go through a hopper in two days and another day for the fire to go out. If the temps are in the 50s I can get three days out of the hopper and two days from the burn pot.

Mac

20 to 21 days is for summer running to provide DHW only. In the depths of the winter I'm topping off the hopper every 2 days. Currently topping off every 3 to 4 days.

Why is this a problem? I very rarely let my EFM go out for a quick cleaning, but I do make sure the area is well ventilated when I am working on it.

Edit: If you need the fire to be out, open the chimney clean-out door before you go to bed. The fire should be very sleepy by morning, and maybe out entirely.

Rob R. wrote:Why is this a problem? I very rarely let my EFM go out for a quick cleaning, but I do make sure the area is well ventilated when I am working on it.

Edit: If you need the fire to be out, open the chimney clean-out door before you go to bed. The fire should be very sleepy by morning, and maybe out entirely.

We're talking about an AHS here...remember the air is coming in the view port over the top of fire...not necessarily up through the bed of hot coals. The hot coals are setting on 5-6" bed of insulating ash in a 11" dia. tube and probably standing ~11" in height...when it's go'in good it doesn't give up till it's all gone.

Rob R. wrote:Why is this a problem? I very rarely let my EFM go out for a quick cleaning, but I do make sure the area is well ventilated when I am working on it.

Edit: If you need the fire to be out, open the chimney clean-out door before you go to bed. The fire should be very sleepy by morning, and maybe out entirely.

My cleanings are by no means quick (3 to 4 hours), I disassemble most of it and that included the stack.. I don't really want flue gases filling the basement while I am working, the wife tends to get cranky!!