Temperature Question

andyace · Post by **andyace** » Wed. Nov. 12, 2008 1:35 pm

I have a Alaska Channing 3 and it has been in the 20's and 30's at night and around 40s during the day, I have my setting at 2 a 40 lb bag lasts a few days and it has consistantly been 70 degrees in my house "split level ranch"

how often do people have these things running on high? what temperatures outside roughly make you put stove on high, my house is only 1200 sq. ft. it seems that my stove on high would blow me out of the house but maybe below zero I wouldhave to have it on high?

thanks

Andy

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Wed. Nov. 12, 2008 1:47 pm

I heat 2000sqft with my LL stove and I have seen it on high when temps are below 0. Much of it depends on how much you are heating and how good the insulation is in the house and how hot you like it in the house. Also if you are using a setback t-stat and the stove is trying to make up several degrees and it is cold outside it will go to high fire.

andyace · Post by **andyace** » Wed. Nov. 12, 2008 1:59 pm

how much coal do you burn a day on average

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Wed. Nov. 12, 2008 3:35 pm

If I average the entire year I use 38lbs a day to keep my house at 73.

andyace · Post by **andyace** » Wed. Nov. 12, 2008 3:41 pm

not bad... I will probably do al little better as my house is small.

andyace · Post by **andyace** » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 8:49 am

Right now I am averaging 20lbs a day

traderfjp · Post by **traderfjp** » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 9:33 am

When I had my stove on manual feed I would set the thermostat on 1 during the day and when I got home I would keep it between 2 and 3. I rarely went over 3 unless the outside temps were brutal. I never, ever used 5.

andyace · Post by **andyace** » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 9:53 am

yeah 5 seems to extreme and it seems as though the unit would get to hot and trip the sensor.

Legault21 · Post by **Legault21** » Thu. Nov. 13, 2008 4:30 pm

When I put my Alaska 140 in, it came with one of those "old fashioned" needle-type thermostats. I set it aside and went to Home Depot and bought a programmable thermostat. Should have saved the money....we have found that when we keep it set on 68 all the time, the up-and-down fluctuations aren't there, iand t just seems so much nicer letting it set at one constant temperature. Sure, you'll burn more coal, but compared to propane?!?! I could run 3 of these stoves at the same time and still be cheaper than what we used to spend on propane.

(The wife shoo'd the propane truck driver out of the drive way the other day - what a good feeling!)