Anyone has this situation happen to them.
This morning I was woken up by my fiancee because of an odor of smoke in the house. It was right around 445am when this happened. I went down to the pellet stove and found a light haze of smoke in the house. There was smoke coming out of the hopper of the pellet stove and out of where the vent tubes are. The stove was shut off and was cold to the touch. We opened the windows in the house and disconnect the pellet stove and carried it outside. I didn't want to open the hopper in the house in case it was a hopper fire. Outside I opened everything up and found that the burn pot was completely full of pellets and the area around where the igniter is was smoldering away. We called the FD just as a peace of mind to check the house for CO. Which they didnt even end up doing. I asked them about the smoke detectors as none of them sounded. They believe that the smoke was not heavy enough to trip them. I have 2 smoke detectors, one is just a regular smoke/CO combo. The other is just a smoke detector that is integrated with my alarm system.
The stove is hooked to a thermostat and is set to On/Off. What I am thinking occurred was the stove attempted to start and began to fill the burn pot of with pellets. For whatever reason, the pellets didnt ignite as they usually do and the stove kept dumping pellets until the stove entered it shutdown phase for not sensing any heat. The stove went through its shutdown phase and then turned off. This left the burnpot smoldering with the smoke not having any place to go but into my house.
This morning I was woken up by my fiancee because of an odor of smoke in the house. It was right around 445am when this happened. I went down to the pellet stove and found a light haze of smoke in the house. There was smoke coming out of the hopper of the pellet stove and out of where the vent tubes are. The stove was shut off and was cold to the touch. We opened the windows in the house and disconnect the pellet stove and carried it outside. I didn't want to open the hopper in the house in case it was a hopper fire. Outside I opened everything up and found that the burn pot was completely full of pellets and the area around where the igniter is was smoldering away. We called the FD just as a peace of mind to check the house for CO. Which they didnt even end up doing. I asked them about the smoke detectors as none of them sounded. They believe that the smoke was not heavy enough to trip them. I have 2 smoke detectors, one is just a regular smoke/CO combo. The other is just a smoke detector that is integrated with my alarm system.
The stove is hooked to a thermostat and is set to On/Off. What I am thinking occurred was the stove attempted to start and began to fill the burn pot of with pellets. For whatever reason, the pellets didnt ignite as they usually do and the stove kept dumping pellets until the stove entered it shutdown phase for not sensing any heat. The stove went through its shutdown phase and then turned off. This left the burnpot smoldering with the smoke not having any place to go but into my house.
