Before your Harman ignitor went out...

[THE ROOSTER]

Did you notice it taking longer to start a fire and did it take twice as many pellets to start it? I hace scraped my pot and all is clean but it takes twice as long to ignite and has started using twice as many pellets, heck sometimes almost overflowing burning pellets into the ash pan.

Thanks for any input

 

[Lousyweather]

not usually.....its usually immediate....."worked yesterday, not working today"....they are either working, or not.....not usually an intermediate state.

 

[pfmaloney]

Have you cleaned out the bottom of the burn pot after removing the small front panel?

 

[THE ROOSTER]

Have you cleaned out the bottom of the burn pot after removing the small front panel?

Yes sir I have, it acts like the area to ignite the pellets has gotten higher on the pot. It is the original igniter on the fourth burn season. Nothing has changed or been tweeked on, so I am stumped.

 

[heat seeker]

Some igniters fail in just one section, so they don't get as hot. It's not always a total failure. If everything is clean and properly adjusted around the ignitor, you may have a partial igniter failure.

 

[Lousyweather]

Some igniters fail in just one section, so they don't get as hot. It's not always a total failure. If everything is clean and properly adjusted around the ignitor, you may have a partial igniter failure.

Havent ever seen that with a harman Igniter.....when they fail, its usually all or nothing. They deflect with time, breaking the ceramic insulator, and causing the whole ignitor to fail.......a "good" ignitor will have 40-50 ohms of resistance, whereas a bad ignitor wont give you a reading.