The auger on my forester pellet stove stopped working so I called the united states stove company's 800 number. The guy told me that on that stove when the auger stops working it usually is because of a bad pressure switch and then he said I could just bypass it to check it out; so that is what I did.
Sure enough it started working. I let it run for about 20 minutes and then called him back and they are going to send another one out. The day before the auger stopped working I noticed that the front glass was turning completely black with soot. Not sure if this had anything to do with it. I was using the same brand of pellets and all the settings were the same.
Btw- I'm not a person that complains a lot but we got this stove in October and it's been complete junk ever since. I guess it's my fault because we didn't have any feedback on the thing before we bought it. The thing was a new model so there was nothing really out there. We got it because of it's small size and the area we could put it in would not work with a large stove.
The thing only starts about half the time so I have to use a torch with mapp gas to get it going, you have to keep messing with the air adjustment which is totally fine but the way the stove is set up you have to take the whole side cover off to do that. The fire brick backing cracked so I ordered a new one and that cracked about 3 days later so we are just using it like that. Sometimes the thing will get burning hot and sometimes it feels like it's not putting out half the heat it should be .... and this is all with the same brand of pellets and all he settings the same.
Not really sure what I can do though. It's under warranty so I'm getting the parts for free but not for much longer. I have a feeling it's just going to get worse and worse with this stove. Not sure if I just got a lemon or if they are all this bad.
Here is the stove I'm talking about
http://www.usstove.com/proddetail.php?prod=5824
Does anybody else here own this? I love to hear if you're having the same issues.
Sure enough it started working. I let it run for about 20 minutes and then called him back and they are going to send another one out. The day before the auger stopped working I noticed that the front glass was turning completely black with soot. Not sure if this had anything to do with it. I was using the same brand of pellets and all the settings were the same.
Btw- I'm not a person that complains a lot but we got this stove in October and it's been complete junk ever since. I guess it's my fault because we didn't have any feedback on the thing before we bought it. The thing was a new model so there was nothing really out there. We got it because of it's small size and the area we could put it in would not work with a large stove.
The thing only starts about half the time so I have to use a torch with mapp gas to get it going, you have to keep messing with the air adjustment which is totally fine but the way the stove is set up you have to take the whole side cover off to do that. The fire brick backing cracked so I ordered a new one and that cracked about 3 days later so we are just using it like that. Sometimes the thing will get burning hot and sometimes it feels like it's not putting out half the heat it should be .... and this is all with the same brand of pellets and all he settings the same.
Not really sure what I can do though. It's under warranty so I'm getting the parts for free but not for much longer. I have a feeling it's just going to get worse and worse with this stove. Not sure if I just got a lemon or if they are all this bad.
Here is the stove I'm talking about
http://www.usstove.com/proddetail.php?prod=5824
Does anybody else here own this? I love to hear if you're having the same issues.