Try turning your middle button up to 5-6 and check to see if your hopper lid is sealing properly. If the lid isn't sealed properly your stove is sucking air through the auger and robbing it from being blown through the burn pot, not allowing the ash to be blown out of the pot. This can also happen if your burn pot gasket isn't seated properly.
englander evolution pellet stove..... frustrating
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slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
Honestly, like I said before, your stove is probably just dirty internally and need a good cleaning...the vent too. That horizontal section gets filled up with ash fairly quickly and starts cutting down air flow. These need to get thoroughly cleaned out after every ton burned. And the leaf blower trick works great in between full cleanings.
Jason Knapp
Burning Hunk
I had a similar issue. I cleaned my stove to the point of bringing it outside and using my leaf blower to do a complete cleanout. My issue ended up being air in leakage due to worn rope seals. After I resealed the whole stove last year, my stove runs flawlessly. I typically go between 7 and 9 days before I have to clean it out.
So maybe we should try replacing the rope around the inside of the door? It looks pretty burnt. And the windows get black really quickly
slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
Press the LBA button so the "4" is displayed then you need to push both the blower and heat "up" buttons at the same time.
slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
Your gaskets could very well be shot but it's hard to troubleshoot when 100 things are being done at once.
I tried. I guess I'm gonna see how it goes today. I started it at around noontime, so far the burn pot looks OK, about half full. I will call our Pellet stove guy and have him come back and do a thorough cleaning to the entire stove. Thank you so much for all your help.
slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
I know not everyone can do this but this is how I clean mine with the air compressor outside. IMO the best way to clean the stove if you have the means to do it this way.
Jason Knapp
Burning Hunk
I found that the dollar bill method is okay, but slowly tracing the areas where a gasket resides with a grill bbq lighter while the stove is running is much more effective. The flame of the bbq lighter will get sucked into any leak areas. This is the method I used.
I also had a massive gap on the one side of my hopper. I had to put a piece of door gasket on top of the existing one to create a good seal.
Same exact stove too. What do you use for pellets, do you think we should change what we are using? We have tried a few different things, hardwood, softwood, mixed........what do you recommend?
slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
Jason Knapp
Burning Hunk
I wouldn't change anything until it gets a really good, "plates off" cleaning. I'd consider doing a gasket check too.
I'm not sure. We tried a couple from Walmart and a couple from tractor supply. I'm not even sure about the different brands. We have corneth also, but we haven't tried those yet
slvrblkk
Minister of Fire
Unless your pellets are bad/wet or whatever you have an air flow issue.....whether it's a dirty stove/vent, bad gaskets, air being bypassed at the burnpot or whatever. If you've burned over a ton of pellets and haven't done a FULL tear the stove/vent apart cleaning, it's due. The one clue is you said it started happening a month ago.
I think that's what we are going to do. Then I will see where it goes from there. Thank you to everyone
Polar Bear
Feeling the Heat
I have the same stove... You need to thoroughly clean it. Remove the two panels behind ash pan and vacuum there as well as behind baffle... 100% the issue
How is you exhaust flu terminated ? Is it direct vented out the wall or to a chimney ? If it is direct vented take the termination cap off and put a flash light in and see if it is clogged with ash. If it goes out the wall and into a chimney there should be a tee with a clean out cap on it. If so pull the cap off and see if it is full of ash.
Just to show you how much ash gets into the stove flu. I took this video after one week of burning 8 bags of pellets.
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