Hopper Fumes

61hawk · Post by **61hawk** » Mon. Jan. 19, 2009 2:24 pm

Should you smell sulfur over top the middle of hopper. I notice when I added coal to hopper a sulfur smell. The stove is a pioneer.

av8r · Post by **av8r** » Mon. Jan. 19, 2009 2:35 pm

First things everyone is going to ask:

Powervent or not?

What is your draft at?

Barometric damper or not?

gambler · Post by **gambler** » Mon. Jan. 19, 2009 2:58 pm

61hawk wrote:Should you smell sulfur over top the middle of hopper. I notice when I added coal to hopper a sulfur smell. The stove is a pioneer.

You should not smell anything.

WNY · Post by **WNY** » Mon. Jan. 19, 2009 3:30 pm

If you have wet coal, it just might be the wet/damp coal smell, I can smell mine when I load it, but I maintain a .04-.05 draft, so I know it's not a draft problem with mine. Make sure you have a CO detector nearby.

61hawk · Post by **61hawk** » Mon. Jan. 19, 2009 5:57 pm

I have a stainlees steel chimney with a barometric damper. Its not wet coal my coal is stored in garage I have a CO2 Its 18 feet from stove (what mtg suggests). The thing is I havent set my baro with a manometer yet. Just ordered it. I can only smell sulfur if I am within 6" of the top of hopper.

Jerry & Karen · Post by **Jerry & Karen** » Tue. Jan. 20, 2009 5:19 pm

Hi 6,
You need to get the draft checked. Is there any sweat on the inside of you hopper lid ? I would suggest to make sure that all of the pipes are clean, and set the barometric to 3 or 3.5 on the weight scale.
Jerry
PS, don't mess with this. GET IT FIXED.

WNY · Post by **WNY** » Wed. Jan. 21, 2009 7:30 am

once in while I see some white smoke seeping up thru the coal in my hopper, I have bumped my baro/draft up to .04-.05 and seems to eliminate it....but it does sound like a draft problem.

StanT · Post by **StanT** » Thu. Jan. 22, 2009 5:23 am

We had a problem almost like yours, Found the ash can was too close to the stove pipe hole, moved it so it touches the cleanout door. Working good now.

Good Luck, Stan

av8r · Post by **av8r** » Thu. Jan. 22, 2009 7:38 pm

StanT wrote:We had a problem almost like yours, Found the ash can was too close to the stove pipe hole, moved it so it touches the cleanout door. Working good now.

Good Luck, Stan

My LL is a bottom vent and has a piece of 1/4" bar stock welded over the opening to the vent which keeps the ash pan away from the opening. Is yours setup differently?