Hello everyone. I am looking for some suggestions.

I am at the tail end of my second season with my Enviro Empress. About two thirds of the way through this season, my auger motor died and I replaced it. About a week ago I shut off my stove one morning and then went to turn it on to take the chill out of a cool night. The auger motor wouldn’t turn. I emptied out the hopper and vacuumed all around the auger to make sure it wasn’t blocked, but the motor still wouldn’t turn. I took the auger motor out, but connected to the control board, but it still wouldn’t turn. I was annoyed, but figured I burned out another motor.

I bought another motor and hooked it up to the control board, but the new motor won’t turn either. I am now thinking it is a problem with the control board, but I am not sure how to troubleshoot it further. When I turn the stove on, I know the vacuum switch is engaging. I can see the auger light on, but it seems like there is no power to the motor.

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Todd

Use a multimeter to test if there actually is voltage to the motor. If not, try to trace it back and see where the voltage stops. If the board never sends the voltage out then that could be the problem.

You can power the motor directly to eliminate it as the problem. Take an extension cord and put spade connectors or aligator clips on the ends. Hook up connectors to motor before you plug into electricity. Also make sure you have only the auger motor connected. (If you are not familiar with electricity don’t do this without guidance. You can get quite a shock! You could also fry the control board. Isolate the motor only)

Check your system snap disk, if there is one inline with your auger motor. There should be a wiring diagram on the stove body somewhere.

Also, make sure you can spin the auger by hand and that the auger is not jammed.