My Pocono Install... So Far.

Here are some pic's of my Pocono installed under the hood, where I used to have my Warm Morning hand fired stove:

That's the cold air return directly over the hood.


The "S" shaped duct over the hood is connected to the plenum over the "propain" furnace. I was never happy how that works. There are two muffin fans installed in the hood to push the heated stove air into the furnace plenum. The furnace blower pushes the air the wrong way when it turns on. I plan to change that. I'm going to remove the "S" duct & go straight up into the cold air return. I'm also going to add some extensions down from the hood to kinda enclose the area at the top of the Pocono.




I adjusted the barometric damper by guess-work, but I'm ordering a Dwyer manometer to check the draft also. I'm not confident that it is good enough, without checking it.



Lastly, I want to add a fan limit switch either above the Pocono inside the hood, in the connector to the cold air return or in the cold air return where the air enters from the hood. I've got to decide on the location & research exactly how to wire it to the furnace blower.

What do you all think?
Any advice or suggestions of what I could/should do different?

By no means am I am expert with stokers but your install looks GREAT to me!!! Congrats!

I am sure some seriously more qualified people will chime in soon as well!

ciao!
M

You could take the top plate off so the hot air isn't being directed down away from your hood. You would just want to try and make sure nothing would fall in to the back of it though.

I thought about doing that, but the design of the Pocono seems to use the top plate to direct the air from the convection blowers across the top to heat the air as it passes over. To take advantage of that design, I plan to extend the sides of the hood to be lower than the top of the Pocono & have the front extension also bend back toward the Stove so that it catches the air from the convection blowers & turns it up toward the ducting.
More pic's to come....

Protrucker wrote:I thought about doing that, but the design of the Pocono seems to use the top plate to direct the air from the convection blowers across the top to heat the air as it passes over. To take advantage of that design, I plan to extend the sides of the hood to be lower than the top of the Pocono & have the front extension also bend back toward the Stove so that it catches the air from the convection blowers & turns it up toward the ducting.
More pic's to come....

Have you looked at the heat jacket available for the Hyfire ?? Might give you some idea on how to get all that heat off the sides and into the ductwork. I don't know for sure and haven't check the dimensions of the Pocono vs. the Hyfire but if they are similar, you might want to get that jacket........

Rick

I had seen that Leisure Line offers a heat jacket for both the Hyfire & the Pocono. Being cheap & having a little bit of fabrication skills I prefer to make my own heat jacket. I tried to take another look at them on their web site to see how far the heat jacket extended down from the top. They seem to have updated the web site though & don't have the heat jacket showing any more.

Check here: **Broken Link(s) Removed**

Scroll down the page and you will see a pic of the Hyfire jacket.

Basically all they are is 2 "U" shaped pieces of flat sheet screwed to the sides of the stove. The bottom remains open. Then a collector top plate is made to join the sides together. Then there is a hole cut in the top to attach ductwork to it. I had bought the 14" collector kit which also came with a 14" diameter inline fan.

If you need detailed pics of it, shoot me a PM and I'll take some pics of the individual pieces over the weekend.

Rick