Craptacular - Harman XXV acting goofy (update - fixed!)

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ShizzelDizzel

ShizzelDizzel

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So I attempted to shutdown my XXV to do a good cleaning on this 60 degree day. Waited and waited, the stove never shut down and was throwing the 3 blink status. So I unplugged it, scraped whatever remaining pellets from the burn pot into the ash pan and took it outside. Performed my cleaning, plugged it in and the same 3 blink status. Sigh....... The combustion and distro blowers are running and the feed motor comes on once every few minutes. I have to think the control board is the issue here?



Turned out to be the ESP. Warranty swap out and back up and running!
 
ShizzelDizzel said:
So I attempted to shutdown my XXV to do a good cleaning on this 60 degree day. Waited and waited, the stove never shut down and was throwing the 3 blink status. So I unplugged it, scraped whatever remaining pellets from the burn pot into the ash pan and took it outside. Performed my cleaning, plugged it in and the same 3 blink status. Sigh....... The combustion and distro blowers are running and the feed motor comes on once every few minutes. I have to think the control board is the issue here?
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Did you do the Hard Reset? 3 blinks requires a manual hard reset. Unplug the stove for a full minute turn the ST RT knob to off and plug it back in.
 
Yes. It was off for an hour while I cleaned it. Turned it back on with the three blink status. Tried it several times. Pretty sure something is toast. Strange that the stove was runnin fine until I turned it to off so I could clean it. That's when I noticed the three blinks. Been messed up since.
 
But did you turn the dial to "off" while unplugged? ALso, did you make sure your switch is on auto, I believe if on manual it will stay on. I run off a thermostat and that is how I turn mine off when it gets warm outside. I did put mine on manual before and notched the thermostat down, did not want the fire to go out, then when I went to turn it off I was puzzled when it didn't go out. I dawned on me that I had the switch moved to manual for that day. Put it back to auto and whala...went out. Just a thought or two......good luck. Let us know how it turns out.

Jim
 
ShizzelDizzel said:
Yes. It was off for an hour while I cleaned it. Turned it back on with the three blink status. Tried it several times. Pretty sure something is toast. Strange that the stove was runnin fine until I turned it to off so I could clean it. That's when I noticed the three blinks. Been messed up since.
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Did you UNPLUG the stove from the wall? You need to unplug it THEN turn the knob to off, THEN plug it back in after a minute or two.
 
Harman Lover 007 said:
ShizzelDizzel said:
Yes. It was off for an hour while I cleaned it. Turned it back on with the three blink status. Tried it several times. Pretty sure something is toast. Strange that the stove was runnin fine until I turned it to off so I could clean it. That's when I noticed the three blinks. Been messed up since.
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Did you UNPLUG the stove from the wall? You need to unplug it THEN turn the knob to off, THEN plug it back in after a minute or two.
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I think he took the stove outside to clean it....
 
Yes, it was unplugged and turned to the off position. But I did not move the switch to auto from manual when I shut the stove down. I did not know the stove wouldn't shut down unless the switch was in auto mode even when the dial is "off". So now when I plug the stove in both fans come on and stay on, the feed motor feeds a few pellets once a minute or so and the 3 blink status is on.

And I didn't take the stove out to clean it I took the ashpan with some hot pellets outside.

So now it seems Ive caused the stove to be in some weird state since I shut down the stove manually since I didn't know the switch had to be in auto. Not sure what to try next. I wonder if I manually light the stove it will get things back in order. Thoughts?
 
No. I took it out before cleaning out the pipe. The three blink status first occurred while attempting to shut down the stove so I don't think it's the probe. The stove was fine until shutting it down while in manual mode.
 
You gonna let us know what it was?
 
Sorry. I updated the original post. ESP was bad.
 
Okay, thanks! I didn't see the other post, my bad.
 
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