I recently purchased a Dovetec corn heater and it does not have a model number or serial number on it. I am trying to figure out how to adjust the control knobs on the heater for proper heating. It has been cleaned and we are using wood pellets. It has started to send smoke in the room from the hopper and it does not warm very well. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Check out this post in the old forum...

forum.iburncorn.com/viewtopic.php?t=5930

Shell1 wrote:


Hello Shell1, Mdonkers gave you good help, I hope you get the air moving correctly to get smoke moving out and not in. I have an Amaizablaze 4100 that I burn pellets with. I had to increase the combustion air flow to get a good burn when I switched from corn to pellets.
Also you have to have the stove configured to a negative air flow to burn pellets safely. If you have a fan protruding from the back it already is. If your combustion fan is concealed on inside, it is positive air flow and incorrect for pellets. The reason is corn needs lots of free air flow to burn or it will go out and pellets will smolder with much less. If for some reason your burnpot gets so full it plugs the fuel chute the fire can migrate up to the hopper. Then you damage the stove maybe or house maybe and certainly it will bring new meaning to smoke in hopper. If it is not negative flow I encourage you to make it so. The Amaizablaze owners have almost always agreed the stove burns better using corn or pellets with the negative draft. Before spending the money however I would get it working first.
Good luck

been heating 4yrs now....use corn

Please, Please, do not burn pellets in this stove! Many homes have burned down from this! This site will provide a manual for your operation...but use corn and clean the exhaust!

http://www.cornstoves.info/docs/manual.pdf