My Heat N Glo 6000TRB DSI gas fireplace has been nothing but trouble for many years, and I have had a professional out every year, most recently to try to fix nuisance lockouts.
For the last three or four years, he claimed the igniter was the problem, that it was no longer manufactured, and he "insulated" it with a huge wad of red caulk, which would work for one season. This year when it locked out, I went on the internet and found the igniter new, and bought it, as well as a new junction box with wiring harness and control module, since the connections between the pins on the two parts was loose. I started to look around and saw that the blower the he sold to me and installed to replace the original had the ground prong cut off so that it would fit in the junction box outlet. I lost my last shred of faith in him at that point, so today I installed the new parts myself. I cleaned off all of the red caulk from the old igniter and got the metal plate clean, and installed all of the new parts, and the fireplace works great.
Here are my questions:
1. There is a big hole in the metal floor between the logs and the electronics below, where the red caulk used to be googed all around the bottom of the igniter and the igniter wire. It looks like there might have been something there before. Is there a gasket missing? Should I insulate between the new igniter and the hole in the metal? Can I leave it as it is? I don't want that black rubber to melt.
2. Can I still use the blower with the ground prong cut off, or should I buy a new one? I grounded the new junction box that it plugs into.
