Pellet Press Feed Rates Are Vitally Important

If you have picked up our free guides, or you have been doing some research on pellet presses, you will have come across the Chinese flat die pellet mills with a simple cone hopper.

The implications of this cone to many consumers is that it should be filled with material, and then the machine will operate until the hopper is empty. However as many of their owners will explain (PelHeat included) this is not actually what happens. If you fill up the cone hopper either two things will happen. The pellet mill motor may stall due to been put under too much load. You will be able to watch this happen as the amps continue to rise until the motor shuts down. If the motor is able to keep on going sooner or latter the material in the hopper will bridge or the pellet press die will become blocked. Why?, well its due to the steam generated not been able to escape as there is a hopper full of material above it. Therefore this steam gets absorbed into the material. This then increases the moisture content of the material, commonly causing it to stick together and bridge. The first you will know about this is the hopper appears to be full but no pellets are coming out of the machine. If this extra wet material then falls into the mill the high moisture content will block the die due to pressure overload. Our Mini Pellet Mill addresses these issues and many, many more. Please watch the video through the link below. As you can see the feed of the material into the pellet mill is controlled and infinitely variable. This gives you the ability once the machine is properly setup to leave it running virtually unattended. This is unlike any other pellet press/pellet mill in its price bracket. We also designed this small press so it can be operated from a standard electrical plug socket. This is difficult due to the low amps the machine has to operate from. You can also see videos of our small pellet plants making various pellets.