Burning Corn in the TPB-150
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The TPB-150 will burn most types of clean, shelled corn. It is not necessary to mix the corn with wood pellets, though some people have had good success with burning a 50/50 mix. The TPB-150 boiler is supplied with a plug in the metering cup. When burning corn, leave this plug in to prevent over fuelling the boiler.
Typically burning corn requires a bit more combustion air than wood pellets. The shutter on the draft inducer should be set at no less than 50% open, the cycle time at eight minutes and the pilot draft switch on the primary control medium.
The moisture content of the corn should be 15% or less, and care should be taken to ensure that there are not foregin objects in the corn (i.e. Sticks, stalks, cob pieces or rocks) which will jam the feed system. The metering cup in the corn feed system will cut though many stalks, but still, some care should be used to remove as much of the foreign objects as possible.
Though you can burn 100% corn in your Traeger boiler, it is very difficult to start a fire using just corn. It is advised to use several cups of wood pellets in the burn pot to start the fire. Once the feed auger kicks in, the fire temperature of the burning wood pellets will be more than sufficient to ignite the corn.
