E-Classic Sevice recommendation notice

[Dean186]

Doctorb,

The E-Classic 1400 programming is still a mystery to me, even though I have been trying to figure it out.  The when and the why it switches from high burn to low burn and back is the mysterious part.   It often makes sense, but other times it does not.   This would be a good posting for another thread.

Explanation:  If the furnace is in high burn mode when it reaches the shutdown temperature and the reaction chamber temperature is above 1,000 degrees, the stove goes into a "cool down" if you will, switching from high burn at the 194 degree temperature to low burn.  It will continue in low burn for a minute or two before a complete shutdown happens. (Note:  This stove will raise the temperature of the entire water jacket more than  1 degree per minute when in high burn mode and more like 15 degrees in 10 minutes if burning well).  The fact that it stays in low burn mode for a minute or two is how the temperature rises above the set point.  Also, 5 degrees is the max I have seen it go above the set point, more typically it is 2 to 3 degrees.  If it is in low burn mode when it reaches max temperature, then it just shuts down immediately and maybe a 1 degree rise will occur.

It only spits water out the top if I have the temperature above 194 degrees.  I have since set the max temperature to 193 and I never have any lose of water at that setting.  It only spit water out the top one time when I tried setting the temperature at 195 degrees. 

The valve is not sent to E-Classic 1400 owners.  I only posted here because of the question on temperature settings.   I will post more about my E-Classic 1400 installation in another post.

Dean

[doctorb]

dean186

My controller works slightly different, I think.  While it switches from high burn to low burn at the top end of the water temp cycle, it happens a degree or two prior to reaching 195, if my observations are correct.  So my E-2300 kind of "creeps up" on the T-Max of 195, and hasn't gone past it because it's already in low burn mode.  Sounds like the two units have programming differences.  It also sounds like your unit heats the water at a faster rate than mine.  With 450 gallons in the water jacket, it takes longer than 15 minutes to raise the temp back up to 195, and is obviously also dependent on the heat load removed from the water in my house

doctorb.