What is the life expectancy of a ignitor P68

Surprised none of the Harman owners answered ...

It's a question that's has so many variables. How well the pellets ignite, how many cycles per day, how well the stoves ignition area is kept clean to aid passage of the super heated air etc, etc.

Ignitors can be funny. Some go in a season or less while others can go for years and years. On my old enviro I went thru at least one ignitor a year. My father in law's quad is on the same ignitor for I believe the seventh year now. This is my first season with the Harman so time will tell. I would expect to get at least a few seasons out of it but we'll see. At least there only about $85 and not $170 like they were for the enviro.

Hey Waterworker,
Funny I also have a P68 and I installed mine the day you joined this forum. Looks like you put all the bells and whistles on yours. How do you like it?

I am also running room temp auto with feed rate 4 currently. I too wonder what to expect from the igniter but I think Bioburner offers up some good points. Time will tell. I think some of the igniter misers might worry a bit much or they have a stove that likes to kill igniters. Some stoves are bad about them or it's a known issue on some. But it doesn't hurt to conserve either.

About that many and no more? Keep them and the area around them clean and they last a lot longer than if you don't.

Waterworker123 said:

This is my first pellet stove and I'm running my stove on room temp auto. And I was wondering the life expectancy of the ignitor. I'm hoping some of you seasoned pellet stove owners could give myself and other newbies what we can expect. Thanks

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I don't worry about my igniter its under warranty if it goes bad ill buy another.the reason I bought my stove was for room temp auto.im actually interested to see how long it will last under heavy use

I'm going into my 7th year burning, still with the original igniter. Probably just jinxed myself.

Fourth year, still on original ignitor, so far so good. I do try to conserve the ignitor a bit by doing a manual lighting of the stove when possible. Especially during shoulder season I'll do manual lightings more often when the stove is used only a short period of time each day.

But I also don't have direct evidence that more cycles lead to a shorter ignitor life. I just do the manual lightings more to stay in practice (in case of ignitor failure), and perhaps to celebrate a pellet stove's traditional wood stove heritage by actually lighting a fire. Other than that I'd say it 'can't hurt' to keep the ignitor cycles down.