Whitfield Burn Pot Fills Up

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Two Flints

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Oct 31, 2008
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Northern Maine
Hello,

Need help and suggestions.

I have a Whitfield Advantage II-T Free Standing Stove, purchased by me new back in 1992. Has always worked well for me with minor problems. Now have the Ultra-Grate setup.

New problem. My Whitfield works great if my auger setting doesn't go above the #2 setting. If I turn my auger setting to #3 then the pellets start to build up in the burn pot. I am burning soft wood pellets. The pellets will build up even if I pull out the damper handle on the left side more than the recommended factory setting.

Any idea why the pellets build up?

Two Flints
 
Last time you cleaned your stove and pipe? sounds like lack of air, dirty stove, weak combustion blower motor, air leaks from door/ash pan gasket's, try different pellet's? those pellets should "dance" in the burnpot
 
[QUOTE="Pellet-King, post: 2069634, member: 8554"]Last time you cleaned your stove and pipe? sounds like lack of air, dirty stove, weak combustion blower motor, air leaks from door/ash pan gasket's, try different pellet's?[/QUOTE]

I clean my Whitfield EVERYDAY - I really do! I get a bright active flame and if I keep the auger set at #2 setting, I can actually see the burn pot grid at the bottom, with nice hot embers . . . but when I go to the #3 auger setting I get a gradual build up of charcoal?? pellets in the burn pot. Combustion motor??? may be the problem, but why only on the #3 auger setting? Whitfield is direct vented out my wall. No vertical rise at all. Pipe is only three feet long. Always cleaned. I have no door leaks . . . I even have extra internal flat rope to prevent air leaks . . . so my Whitfield is tight!

Two Flints
 
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Your cleaning has probably been good enough to keep it going for this many years but how about the rear exchanger wall. TAke a view of the leaf blower trick on youtube as this cleaning method can suck out some very ugly stubborn ash while hitting the back of the stove with a wood block or dead blow hammer. If that does not get the constipation out or there is none, your over due on getting a new exhaust fan.
 
I rarely run my stove on a 3,.it get's too hot, when was the last time you took the firebrick out and gave her a real good clean?, you could easily do the leafblower trick
 
Yes, remove the firebrick and get in behind the firewall and vacuum out there reallly good. I got a good deal on my old whitfield 2 advantage stove because it had quit working and that area behind the fire wall had not been cleaned and it quit working. bjr23
 
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