Whitfield Quest

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XCR583

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Nov 29, 2010
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Slippery Rock, PA
Ok...Some of you may remember me asking about cleaning out my Quest, well got it cleaned out, replaced some gaskets and hose. Got it together Thursday night and lit it. Burned great!! Well, I had been having a issue with the exhaust blower motor not getting up to speed right away and it did seem a little wierd Thursday when I lit it but nothing to bad. After a little bit, seemed to kick in and burn good. In my research on here, did see one thread about this and they said they replaced the motor. Long storey short, wife was off Friday, so I kept stove burning. She calls couple hours later saying house is full of smoke. So get home Friday and I had the pellets turned down, I just thought it was burning so good, I just had them turned down to much. Tired to light stove with small propane torch. Got pellets burning but noticed the flame didnt pick up like it should. Had sides of stove off still and noticed blower motor wasnt turning. Unplugged stove. Felt motor and it was hot. Unplugged the quick connection to the blower motor that has two wires and then there is a ground wire coming out of the motor thats attached to a bolt. Took voltmeter and tested both wires on the quick connection and got ~115 volts on both wires while holding to the ground. Is this right? Should they both have power when the stove is somewhat warm? I am starting to understand how these things work, I guess if its warm, there is a switch that closes that keeps sending power, so is that why both had 115 volts? After the stove cooled off for a couple hours, plugged it in again and turned on and there was power to only one wire now. Is this correct? I just want to make sure I dont have some other issue before I go and order another motor and burn it up. Any help would be appreciated!! Supposed to get cold again this week, high around 20, so would like to get this resolved quickly.

Here is a link to the motor if that helps. You can see the plastic connector with the two wires and the third ground wire.

http://www.stove-parts-unlimited.com/Whitfield_Exhaust_Blower_Motor_p/801065021.htm

Anyone order from these guys? Thinking about ordering this motor from them.
 
So you had 110V from the black wire to ground and 110V from the white wire to ground?

Am I understanding correctly?

If so, that's not right, I'm not sure what's wrong, but that's not right.
 
I see a red wire and white wire at the plastic connector. Yes, I am pretty sure that when the stove was warm, I had 115 volts at the red to ground and also 115 volts from white to ground. With the stove now totally cooled off, I only have 115 volts to the red wire to ground, not to the white wire to ground.

Where is the switch at that I need to heat up to see if I do indeed have 115 volts when warm from the white wire to ground? I would like to figure this out before the motor arrives.
 
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