I’m glad to see your getting it running better. I feel these stoves have gotten a bad reputation but I’ve had mine for 5 years and I love it! I agree with Foghorn that there are a few things you have to fiddle with to get this baby tuned in. I am able to run mine on auto and the only setting I change is that I run the room fan on 9 just to get all the heat blown out of the stove. Watching videos on UA-cam of people running these stoves compared to mine, there are three main things different. 1. You have to remove the bottom of the window gasket. The gasket covers up the slots that are there for the “air wash” that keeps the window clean. The factory ships them with the window gasket all the way around the window which is wrong. 2. The little doors in the back of the burn box. You have to remove them and clean them out every time you clean the stove. Behind those doors is the cavity and outlet where your draft fan sucks air through the entire stove system. If those are not cleaned out the ash will build up and start blocking the outlet where your draft fan sucks. I’ve seen some people clean their stoves once a day, some once a month (yikes!), I do mine once a week. 3. Most don’t know that you can remove the burnpot. Underneath and behind the burnpot are the draft fan inlet and igniter. Underneath the burnpot fills up with “clinkers” and will block the holes in the bottom of the burnpot and cause a lazy flame. Vacuuming the burnpot out is not enough. It has to be pulled out and vacuumed underneath it also. Hope my comment here helps a few people. Give the stove a chance. It really is an excellent stove.
Awesome! Thanks! I was having a headache trying to figure out why I had too much accumulated I burned pellets. You truly saved me a lot of time. Thanks.
I have one of these and ran it through an existing vertical chimney that's about 20 feet tall. My brother also has one a ran it into a new horizontal chimney. On the same settings his seemed to put out much more heat. Then I realized that a vertical chimney drafts better naturally than a vertical chimney. I realized that a lot of my heat was being drawn up the chimney. I kept turning my draft fan down and the heat output kept getting better. I eventually found that once the stove is heating that it produced the best heat for me on setting one regardless of pellet feed or heat range setting.
Glad to see the door glass gasket modification worked for you. Looks good. Your burn pot is burning cleaner now and yes you are getting more air in through the three holes in the pot. Your flame might be a little lazy but if you're satisfied leave it. Also, I had to modify my burn pot. The igniter hole didn't line up perfectly with the igniter. I put a little bead of weld on the bottom of the pot feet to raise it slightly and drilled the igniter hole out next drill size up. Lines up perfect now and fires up in about 2 minutes. I also drill out the three burn pot draft holes the next drill size up. Also welded on some 1/8x1" perforated steel strips on a 45 degree outward angle to the top of the burn pot sides and front so pellets don't go bouncing out all over the place. Worked like a charm. Good luck with your stove. It's a beast to get tuned in!
I had this for a year now and this is the most I have played with it because I'm sick and tired of looking at it, LOL yes this is been a bitch getting it dialed in I just found out my draft I turned it up to 5 and the house started getting cold so I turned it back down to three seems to be working good and my glass is not getting dark at all anymore
Just an after thought. Make sure when you vacuum your fire box out that you run the hose along that little slit below the glass to insure it never gets blocked with ash. Also, I clean and vacuum my firebox everyday after use and those 2 little plates at the back of the fire box, I vacuum them out too because they will build up with ash behind them. When putting the plates back on finger tighten the screws is good enough. Cleaning takes about 5 minutes or so.
Yes I always thoroughly clean mine and way up top inside the Firebox you have to vacuum that ledge off cuz it gets built up on there, I always vacuum the bottom of it until I saw the video, I didn't know you had to vacuum up there. I do a very thorough cleaning of this, just bought a set of attachments for the end of my pellet stove vacuum to get into tighter spots, and I clean all the holes out in the fire pot
Just got my kp130 maybe 3 months ago and just watched you’re video. I still have my gasket around the entire door. Can you please explain why you took it off?
Yes it's called an air wash when you remove the bottom of the gasket if your glass is turning black within 10 or 15 minutes then you remove just the bottom of the glass after each corner just take it right out cut it and just put it back together and you notice a huge difference it'll take you probably half a day's to even get any little bit of a darker on the top of the glass. After that you will actually hear some suction noise at the bottom of the glass where it's sucking in the air and is removing all the garbage and blowing it out your pipe
@@zachmccann1749 no when you shut it off as long as it goes through its normal cycle you'll be fine but if you unplug it when it is running yes you will get smoked out
When I got my pellet stove everything was set pretty high and my flame was a huge I had to turn everything down and if your door glass turns black you have to trim the door glass gasket on the bottom
Just got this pellet stove used, and didn't get a manual. Been watching alot of your vids lately, did the gasket removal but sometimes my pellets go unburned and pot fills up. I reduced the feed per hr down to 1.75 and that seemed to help. How do I change the draft speed?
When my pellet stove shuts off it starts filling up the pot when I go to turn it back on I open the top door just stopped feeding pellets or you can hit the delay button on the side I just open the door it's easier for me, I have posted the manual in one of my videos I took pictures page by Page it should be here on UA-cam
You should watch the newer videos my pellet stove runs absolutely perfect now even with the door gasket missing on the bottom and if you look in your owner's manual it even tells you to cut the bottom gasket out
I’m glad to see your getting it running better. I feel these stoves have gotten a bad reputation but I’ve had mine for 5 years and I love it! I agree with Foghorn that there are a few things you have to fiddle with to get this baby tuned in. I am able to run mine on auto and the only setting I change is that I run the room fan on 9 just to get all the heat blown out of the stove. Watching videos on UA-cam of people running these stoves compared to mine, there are three main things different.
1. You have to remove the bottom of the window gasket. The gasket covers up the slots that are there for the “air wash” that keeps the window clean. The factory ships them with the window gasket all the way around the window which is wrong.
2. The little doors in the back of the burn box. You have to remove them and clean them out every time you clean the stove. Behind those doors is the cavity and outlet where your draft fan sucks air through the entire stove system. If those are not cleaned out the ash will build up and start blocking the outlet where your draft fan sucks. I’ve seen some people clean their stoves once a day, some once a month (yikes!), I do mine once a week.
3. Most don’t know that you can remove the burnpot. Underneath and behind the burnpot are the draft fan inlet and igniter. Underneath the burnpot fills up with “clinkers” and will block the holes in the bottom of the burnpot and cause a lazy flame. Vacuuming the burnpot out is not enough. It has to be pulled out and vacuumed underneath it also.
Hope my comment here helps a few people. Give the stove a chance. It really is an excellent stove.
Awesome! Thanks! I was having a headache trying to figure out why I had too much accumulated I burned pellets. You truly saved me a lot of time. Thanks.
I have one of these and ran it through an existing vertical chimney that's about 20 feet tall. My brother also has one a ran it into a new horizontal chimney. On the same settings his seemed to put out much more heat. Then I realized that a vertical chimney drafts better naturally than a vertical chimney. I realized that a lot of my heat was being drawn up the chimney. I kept turning my draft fan down and the heat output kept getting better. I eventually found that once the stove is heating that it produced the best heat for me on setting one regardless of pellet feed or heat range setting.
Glad to see the door glass gasket modification worked for you. Looks good. Your burn pot is burning cleaner now and yes you are getting more air in through the three holes in the pot. Your flame might be a little lazy but if you're satisfied leave it. Also, I had to modify my burn pot. The igniter hole didn't line up perfectly with the igniter. I put a little bead of weld on the bottom of the pot feet to raise it slightly and drilled the igniter hole out next drill size up. Lines up perfect now and fires up in about 2 minutes. I also drill out the three burn pot draft holes the next drill size up. Also welded on some 1/8x1" perforated steel strips on a 45 degree outward angle to the top of the burn pot sides and front so pellets don't go bouncing out all over the place. Worked like a charm. Good luck with your stove. It's a beast to get tuned in!
I had this for a year now and this is the most I have played with it because I'm sick and tired of looking at it, LOL yes this is been a bitch getting it dialed in I just found out my draft I turned it up to 5 and the house started getting cold so I turned it back down to three seems to be working good and my glass is not getting dark at all anymore
Just an after thought. Make sure when you vacuum your fire box out that you run the hose along that little slit below the glass to insure it never gets blocked with ash. Also, I clean and vacuum my firebox everyday after use and those 2 little plates at the back of the fire box, I vacuum them out too because they will build up with ash behind them. When putting the plates back on finger tighten the screws is good enough. Cleaning takes about 5 minutes or so.
Yes I always thoroughly clean mine and way up top inside the Firebox you have to vacuum that ledge off cuz it gets built up on there, I always vacuum the bottom of it until I saw the video, I didn't know you had to vacuum up there. I do a very thorough cleaning of this, just bought a set of attachments for the end of my pellet stove vacuum to get into tighter spots, and I clean all the holes out in the fire pot
What are all your settings at can't get a small flame on mine like what you have
Anyone else have a issue with the exhaust fan surging? Mine like speeds up and slows down
I think if you have it on automatic it does it mine does it a little bit
Can you show us on your settings
I don't have it on right now but all of my settings are as low as I can get them
Just got my kp130 maybe 3 months ago and just watched you’re video. I still have my gasket around the entire door. Can you please explain why you took it off?
Yes it's called an air wash when you remove the bottom of the gasket if your glass is turning black within 10 or 15 minutes then you remove just the bottom of the glass after each corner just take it right out cut it and just put it back together and you notice a huge difference it'll take you probably half a day's to even get any little bit of a darker on the top of the glass. After that you will actually hear some suction noise at the bottom of the glass where it's sucking in the air and is removing all the garbage and blowing it out your pipe
@@TheOriginalAndysGarage this won’t allow some smoke to come through will it? Thank you for helping.
@@zachmccann1749 no when you shut it off as long as it goes through its normal cycle you'll be fine but if you unplug it when it is running yes you will get smoked out
I'm new this pellet burning stuff I just brought the pel pro 130 and this is what my flame looks like on 9 do u guys think it looks good thanks
When I got my pellet stove everything was set pretty high and my flame was a huge I had to turn everything down and if your door glass turns black you have to trim the door glass gasket on the bottom
Just got this pellet stove used, and didn't get a manual. Been watching alot of your vids lately, did the gasket removal but sometimes my pellets go unburned and pot fills up. I reduced the feed per hr down to 1.75 and that seemed to help. How do I change the draft speed?
When my pellet stove shuts off it starts filling up the pot when I go to turn it back on I open the top door just stopped feeding pellets or you can hit the delay button on the side I just open the door it's easier for me, I have posted the manual in one of my videos I took pictures page by Page it should be here on UA-cam
Watch "KING PELLET STOVE OWNERS MANUAL KP130" on UA-cam
ua-cam.com/video/VB2JzTA2OU8/v-deo.html
Ok thank you, mine is in my metal non insulated garage. So it dont shut off unless I shut it off to clean
Pellets won’t burn because you removed the gasket on door so draft isn’t pulling thru your pellets it’s pulling through your door. 😂
You should watch the newer videos my pellet stove runs absolutely perfect now even with the door gasket missing on the bottom and if you look in your owner's manual it even tells you to cut the bottom gasket out