I'm going to try that next....I noticed be for a tapped on the "Door Latch" to tighten the seal (That looks like the only way adjust besides a new gasket rope..!) .. that the Draft fan would ramp up and down and blow ashes all around and it had a lazy orang flame....now it seems to be burning very well..it sooted the glass up probably because it was all most out of pellets when I caught it and refilled.. I am getting to trust it a bit more..Time will help.. Thanks for your input Ac..

I run mine 24/7 during the heating season. The draft fan will ramp up and down on these stoves until it reaches a running temp, this happens especially on the lower heat settings and while using the manual draft. While the DF is ramping up and down open and close the manual draft, you will see and hear it change, if you close it all the way and don't have enough air being pulled by the DF the fire will die way down and you won't hear the DF hardly doing anything. When I run on HR1 it burns fine but it does soot up the glass, have tried playing with the DF settings to stop it but at such a low heat I think it's just something we have to live with.
You can take a fork and gently fluff up the door gasket. I've changed mine once and it may need it again this season. I usually fluff it up while the door is open for a length of time while I clean it between commercials during football games on Sunday. Seems to get a nice seal if you fluff and have time to leave it open for a while.

So far I have been runing mine on cr1 and all automaic settings..it throws out some good heat..Now I need to start to run it on some different settings..to see how it will run..Now all I neeed is to move some of that heat up stairs.. Its a low learning curve for me..trial and era.. If any body ever need advise on a Pool or spa hit me up..Thats what I know best..Would love to return some knowledge..!

I fluffed my gasket up for the four seasons with a barbecue cleaning brush. Had to replace it this year, it came with a 1/2 inch square rope gasket it is no longer made and I replaced it with a 5/8 inch graphite gasket. A weeks worth of ashes for me is about 1 inch deep in the ash drawer, that includes all the ash I brush out of the burn chamber during cleaning. Window always soots up about half way down when burning pellets especially at lower heat settings. No thanks necessary just passing on all the stuff I learned from firepotpete and bluewolf they are the experts on this stove.

ashes 1 inch deep after spread out

Then I think I need to pull out the Damper to make it burn hotter and speed up the Auger rate..?

I run my stove on default settings, and use damper to fine tune. Firepotpete sets his own rates. Try both ways and find out which you are comfortable with and works best for you. I am sure firepotpete can start you out with a rate setting and then you can adjust for how your stove and pellets/corn burns. Either way make sure you give it at least 2 hours or more between adjustments it takes stove a while to adjust to new settings.

AC, those pics are exactly the same as how my stove soots up, good pics to show what it looks like.

Jay, right now I have my Draft fan set at 225 low, 260 high. Feed rates are 1.5 pph HR1 and 5 pph at HR9. Running straight corn. If I mix pellets I will have to bump up the lowest DF setting to around 230 to 235, depends on the pellets. I leave the high setting alone since it seems that once the stove is cooking above say HR5 it doesn't matter if it's corn or pellets.

Your stove probably will burn a little different, all depends on your exhaust setup and I'm burning clinker style.

I've never gotten pellets to burn good at 1.5 pph so unless mixed I bump that up to 2 pph with just pellets.

Not to sure on the Cr 1 setting..I switched it to Pr1 My question is are both settings the same as far as feeding pellets..From reading the unhelpful owners manual on the Cr setting it runs less time igniting and saves on the igniter..?

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jaydub, a couple of questions to you. On our 6039's the control panel is a four button panel. What does your panel look like? I assume the PR and CR are to switch between burning Pellets (PR) and Corn (CR)? We have HR (heat range) only for increasing or decreasing the heat, on ours if you push the HR down button and the AUX button at the same time it will show the feed rate at HR1. If you push the HR up and AUX up at the same time it will show the feed rate at HR9.

I don't know if that helps you to see what the factory defaults for the feed rates are but there has to be a way to tweak them. If while pushing the buttons it shows you a feed rate then you should be able to adjust them by pushing the AUX up or down and then pushing the ON button to set the changes to the board.

I saw a couple of the early 6041's and the control boards on those were exactly like mine and didn't have the CR or PR, they did have a button for the ignitor tho, that was the only difference I saw. Ignitor run time on CR being less doesn't make much sense if CR is for corn, corn is harder to ignite than pellets.

Before you change anything make sure that you can find how to reset to the factory defaults, I would think that would be in the manual somewhere, but....then again.....

jaydub, you might want to copy some of this thread and move it to the US Stove area, another 6041 owner might see it there better than here in the General area.

Also I looked at the 6041 manual online. The only difference I see in the control board is switching between the CR/PR. So if you have it set to CR push the CR down button and the Aux down button at the same time. That will tell you the feed rate at the lowest (CR1) setting, something like 2.0pph will come up. Push the CR up button and the Aux up button at the same time, that will tell you the highest feed rate (CR9), something like 6.0pph should come up. Switch back to PR and repeat the process, that will tell you what the difference is between the CR and PR feed rates.

The draft fan settings may be different between CR/PR, so repeat with setting on CR and push the DF down and Aux down at the same time, repeat with DF up and Aux up, then change back to PR and repeat, that will show if the DF settings are different for CR/PR.

Those can be changed to suit what you are burning, I'd be interested at what the factory defaults are for both settings just to see what the manufacturer suggests to start off with.

Other than that at the top of the US Stove section there is a permanent sticky with tips tricks for the 6039, it has a lot of other information and a thorough explanation on using the control board and changing the settings.