Bosca pellet stove problem

Hi Guys, I have stumbled upon this thread because I am having the EXACT same problem with my Bosca Spirit 500. It is about a year old, but this is the first season it has really been used. I had to restart it 4x yesterday after it already had a good flame going and was functioning exactly as it should.. It just likes to turn itself off. It is very frustrating. I use this as my main heat source, and knowing it can just choose to fail and turn itself off when I am gone, is very annoying. I live in a heavy snow area so if this thing decides to junk out on me in Jan, it will not be good! If anyone gets any answers please post them on the forum. I am going to go through it all today for another cleaning. Having trouble finding a small bottle of the SAE 20 oil they request on the blower motors..

My Bosca Spirit 500 has shut down like that on occasion, mostly when testing different pellets. What I've found is the pellet has been the culprit as the longer the pellets the more this seems to happen with this stove. It seems that a pellet bridges the auger and the stove will shut down. Often a restart gets things moving again and other times it requires moving the pellets around in the hopper. This problem went away completely when I made the switch to Lignetics as they are cut small and the auger handles them just fine. The other shutdown issue that exists with Bosca stoves is trying to run them on the #1 setting. Simply put, it doesn't work as the stove will shut down every time.

gymrat0663 said:

My Bosca Spirit 500 has shut down like that on occasion, mostly when testing different pellets. What I've found is the pellet has been the culprit as the longer the pellets the more this seems to happen with this stove. It seems that a pellet bridges the auger and the stove will shut down. Often a restart gets things moving again and other times it requires moving the pellets around in the hopper. This problem went away completely when I made the switch to Lignetics as they are cut small and the auger handles them just fine. The other shutdown issue that exists with Bosca stoves is trying to run them on the #1 setting. Simply put, it doesn't work as the stove will shut down every time.

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Thanks for the reply. You may be on to something with the longer pellets.. My normal supplier decided to throw in some junky corn based pellets with my order, which is normally smaller wood ones. Anyway, that could be part of the issue. Agreed on trying to start it on low, that is a joke. However once it is running it seems to be pretty efficient on the low setting if you don't need too much heat. I appreciate the response.