Update 11/29/2019Started having real issues with smoke coming out of the fuel preheat chamber. The area between the hopper and the burn basket.Today the stove couldn’t get the chimney thermometer above 300 even with the hot burning Red Fir pellets. It could only raise the temp in the yurt from 15F to 57F (-10C to 10C), and smoked the place out so badly I had to keep opening the door to air the yurt out. Nothing I did helped stop the smoke from backing up the burn basket towards the hopper.Hauled the stove outside and gave it a thorough washing with hot soapy water from the chimney pipe down, but just didn’t see much soot coming out.While drying the path for the pellets, specifically where the pellets sit above the burn basket, I turned my hand up and was surprised.The 4” space above the burn basket (place circled in yellow) to just below where the pellets start the straight drop down was PACKED with clinker like carbon. +50% of that space was clogged almost the entire 4” of that space.With a two inch by half inch piece of scrap metal I was able to scrape open up that square tube so it was a good 85% clear up and around. It took a good half hour.It’s a really awkward place to get your meat hooks into, and the carbon material will eat your skin like a belt sander with 24 grit. But I managed to get a good cup, cup and a half, of crap out of there.Still love the stove. Will build a locking swivel scraper so I can properly clean that spot in future. Definitely the Achilles heel of cleaning maintenance on this stove.If you’re stove starts losing heat and smoking out the hopper and/or pre-heating chamber, check that 4” section above the burn basket! You may be really glad you did.Using a rubber mallet, I gave that section percussive maintenance about every half hour for the first three hours after relighting.After the first 45 minutes or so, the chimney temp started staying between 460 and 500, and pellet area stopped smoking.As the temps outside have dropped into the low 20’s, the temps inside have climbed up to 70F and seem to be staying there.Hopefully this did the trick and the casa will be warmer than 50F in the morning!Update 12/7/2018Installed the proper air intake after temperatures dropped to 11F.Vacuuming out the entire burn chamber area and chimney after installing the air intake hose, I’m having good issues- issues keeping the inside cooler than 50F warmer than outside.Still a one bag a day stove no matter what the outside temperature.Important to keep the fly ash vacuumed out a few times a week.Burn basket still looking good.————Pros:Unit arrived in great shape.Assembly was far easier than instruction manual. 2/3 of the assembly was already done (thermometer installed etcFor running continuous, I’ve found the following tricks.Burn a bag or two of several different brands before stockpiling for winter. I found some brands either don’t feed because they’re too “sticky” (just won’t slide on their own), or there too long to feed well.Before bed, and first thing in the morning:Shake the burn chamber well (I use a rubber mallet and whack it on the sides).Even out ash layer in ash tray.Clean secondary burn chamber.Empty ash tray.Top off the hopper before going to sleep.I pull burn chamber apart about once a week and vacuum the while thing, and pick off any residue on the burn basket.Temps have been dipping in the mid 20’s F. Stove has kept the yurt in the high 60’s to around 73F.On low burn I’ve been using about one bag of pellets every 24-30 hours.Nice to know:Burn off the new stove stink before putting in the place.Use a chimney when burning off the stink, or you can’t get it hot enough.Cons:If you don’t even out the pellets when the hopper is nearly empty, the hopper will fill with smoke.If you shut off pellets and let the stove burn off the last in the chamber while set for low temperatures, winds can blow the smoke inside.Overall:Awesome to have a warm yurt 24x7If this keeps up and the burn basket survives the winter I’ll probably bump this up to 5 stars.