Big E Blower failure...please help

hello everybody-

I got a Breckwell Big E stove.... This is its 2nd season (first full)

The fan has always been noisy...

then yesterday it started screeching....then completely stopped.

The Stove seems to be burning fine still..

I could hear the fan kick on in the middle of the night and it started screeching ....then stopped....




I know I need a new fan motor...but which one..

just to be clear....its the fan that pushes the heat out the front holes of the stove.....


Im confident I can handle the motor swap...but I dont know which exact motor I need...

Any thoughts?

so its the convection blower....

lookin like $190 bucks for a new one....

anybody have anyluck trying to repair a convection blower?

and...

it looks like im finding 2 replacements availiable...

One is the breckwell....and the other is a whitfield brand...



anybody have any experience w/ the whitfield...

I cant see myself buying another breckwell fan that crapped out in a year.....

the whitfield is ten bucks more than the breckwell..

SmokeyTheBear said:

Did your crapped out blower have oil ports on it and if so did you ever clean the blower and give it some oil? That is usually a every six month thing to do.

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I was unaware of any service I had to do for the convection blower...


I will be pulling stove apart this week to swap out that motor....I will let you know about oil/lube ports on motor-



also....

while I'm "inside" the stove....besides an obvious cleaning... are there other preventative maintenance I could be doing .... i.e: more oil ports etc..

thanks guys...

i will post soon w/ the results.


the stove has been great up to this point....i have the hopper extension so I love being able to put 6 days worth pellets at setting #2... and I can leave for a week and come back to the big E still pumping heat into my basement-

I also own a harmon advanced..... (going on 10 years old w/ zero problems) ...

i would recommend both....