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Cribbed from an email to my sister tonight:
I'm having to haul fuel oil to heat my house in 5-gallon cans from a gas station 20 miles away, which sucks because it takes me about 2 days to go through a canfull, so I have to do this constantly. The barrel is raised to my head level (the monitor stove is gravity-fed), so I have to hold the can over my head to fill the barrel, which also sucks, though I'm developing strong arm muscles. None of the fuel companies will come out and fill my 55-gallon barrel -- they act like I've grown a 3rd head when I even ask if they can do such a small delivery.
I need a fuel-oil tank. The previous owners didn't really use the monitor heater for anything but occasional emergency heat to keep the plumbing from freezing during cold snaps, but I intend to use it as one of my major heat sources.
After writing the above email, I noticed that the house wasn't heating up and the heating vents (newly installed this weekend) were cold, so I went outside and crawled into the crawlspace -- it's not accessible from inside the house. There was a new error code on the stove's digital readout: EE6. What the hell does THAT mean? I wondered, and went running back upstairs to look it up in the book. I'm getting quite familiar with EE2 ["out of fuel"] but this is a new one. (I swear, I'm so grateful that the previous owners kept the books to everything. It's made my life SO much easier, especially with things like the monitor heater that are unfamiliar to me.) EE6="flame extinguished after startup". Huh. According to the book it can be caused by about a cubic jillion things, including air in the fuel line, fuel tank too high, etc. It doesn't list "idiots messing with the stove's thermostat" but that was the last thing I did before going inside, so that might have done it. I went down and pushed the reset (fuel priming) button and restarted it, and it seems to be going through its usual warming routine. I wonder if there's a way to get it to restart after an error without turning it off and back on. Once it's errored out, it seems to stay that way until you turn it off.
EDIT: Just ran down to check on it, and it seems to be running along nicely. I guess I'll check again before I go to bed.
EDIT2: I just discovered that by taking out the vent in the bathroom (which is right above the monitor) and twisting my head sideways, I can sort of see its readout panel -- at least enough to tell if it's running along happily -- without going outside. Nice!
I'm having to haul fuel oil to heat my house in 5-gallon cans from a gas station 20 miles away, which sucks because it takes me about 2 days to go through a canfull, so I have to do this constantly. The barrel is raised to my head level (the monitor stove is gravity-fed), so I have to hold the can over my head to fill the barrel, which also sucks, though I'm developing strong arm muscles. None of the fuel companies will come out and fill my 55-gallon barrel -- they act like I've grown a 3rd head when I even ask if they can do such a small delivery.
I need a fuel-oil tank. The previous owners didn't really use the monitor heater for anything but occasional emergency heat to keep the plumbing from freezing during cold snaps, but I intend to use it as one of my major heat sources.
After writing the above email, I noticed that the house wasn't heating up and the heating vents (newly installed this weekend) were cold, so I went outside and crawled into the crawlspace -- it's not accessible from inside the house. There was a new error code on the stove's digital readout: EE6. What the hell does THAT mean? I wondered, and went running back upstairs to look it up in the book. I'm getting quite familiar with EE2 ["out of fuel"] but this is a new one. (I swear, I'm so grateful that the previous owners kept the books to everything. It's made my life SO much easier, especially with things like the monitor heater that are unfamiliar to me.) EE6="flame extinguished after startup". Huh. According to the book it can be caused by about a cubic jillion things, including air in the fuel line, fuel tank too high, etc. It doesn't list "idiots messing with the stove's thermostat" but that was the last thing I did before going inside, so that might have done it. I went down and pushed the reset (fuel priming) button and restarted it, and it seems to be going through its usual warming routine. I wonder if there's a way to get it to restart after an error without turning it off and back on. Once it's errored out, it seems to stay that way until you turn it off.
EDIT: Just ran down to check on it, and it seems to be running along nicely. I guess I'll check again before I go to bed.
EDIT2: I just discovered that by taking out the vent in the bathroom (which is right above the monitor) and twisting my head sideways, I can sort of see its readout panel -- at least enough to tell if it's running along happily -- without going outside. Nice!