The Harman PB105 Pellet Boiler has automatic ignition, automatic temperature control, and Harman’s patented pellet pro feeder and burn pot. Designed for easy access to the burn pot, the entire hopper component swings open for performing maintenance and cleaning. The PB105 packs 0 to 105,000 BTU and has a 205 lb. hopper capacity and an extra large ash pan.
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We have a Kedel RTB pellet boiler, installed in 2013, and we are on our third service call this week. This particular problem seems to be electronic (the monitor screen died), but in the past, the internal auger failed, was rewelded, failed again, and was rewelded again. This week, after the original monitor screen was replaced (we were charged UP FRONT for the part- 6 degrees that day so no choice), it failed the next day for unknown reasons. It ultimately restarted after the 5 or 6th attempt over a few hours. Then, today, it failed again. The motor bringing the pellets to the burner died. We have NO CONFIDENCE in this boiler after only 4 years, and actually we lost confidence about a year ago when problems were coming up with disturbing regularity. We feel that we’ve got a lemon, but I have heard from another person who services Kedels (he used to work for the person who now services this one) that the Kedel manufacturer talked up this product to be much better than it is. We are ready to throw in the towel, eat the cost, and replace this furnace after 4 years. Right now, we are completely disenamored with this furnace and the small company who installed/services it. Has anyone else had bad luck with Kedel boilers?
i install the pb-105 4 years ago and its a great machine .i burn 7-8 palet or pellet a year .(way to big house for the spec and it do the job anyway) i have a 7500 ft/2 house with the garage heat exchanger for air , radiant floor heating in my garage and a h2o to preheat the water for my water tank.
exept some asshole to the initial setting to calibrate the air flow on my system (i install a ajustable bolt to calibrate inlet flow trap) its perfect. may be not the most efficient on the market but really low maintenance and reliable…i recomand it
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the pellets are not coming down to the burning pot only a few then the feeder comes on and they do not keep coming down what could be wrong
Installed mine a year ago in interior Alaska (2012) — so super-cold temperatures down occasionally to -50F — in a 3500 well-insulated 2-story with daylight basement. It heats wonderfully and has oddly enough saved on my electric bill over my old cheapo oil-fired boiler because it has a reservoir of hot water that responds quickly. While I love this machine and would not trade it, it does come with a lot of maintenance and tending. The biggest problems I have had are with the aquastate and with the ignitor. The system started out great, but after a year, I’m beginning to have problems with the system automatically lighting due to a failing ignitor (which I’ll have to replace periodically at about $100 each time). The aquastat is also a cheaply made device that sits in a well at the top of the boiler, fixed in place with a coiled spring that is darned near impossible to install correctly and which is prone to failure, causing overheating. As a result, I’m having to replace this ($35) as well. One design issue that I dislike is that you cannot easily reach the burn pan to properly clean it without swinging open the entire boiler, which requires shutting the system down (unlike a normal pellet stove). Technically, you can get your hand into the access door, but it is hard to manuever a tool inside the burn box to scrape it properly. All these things aside, the money I’ve saved compared to burning oil is tremendous — and if I had it to over again, I would install this unit again.