Thanks guys.
Had a real Buggaboooo this morning with the first fire.
Kept smelling a faint smoke smell, just enough that ya knew it was there.
Did not have time in the AM to mess with it so I shut it off and headed out in the big rig.
Got time this afternoon to look things over and here is what I found.
Stove was fine as I had burned it out in the shop area and there was no smell of smoke coming out the heat air tubes.
The Pellet Pro says "Sealer not needed"
DON"T believe that crap.
I refired the thing and turned the lights off, crawled under the pipe with a pocket sized LED flashlight and had a look see.
Both joints at the elbo to the straights showed wips of smoke and the appliance adapter which is inside the back cover was really leaking between the inner and outer layers.
OK I used high temp metal tape on the seams at the elbo and the pipe end of the adapter.
The area where the adapter goes onto the quick connector needed to be filled with silicone to be smoke tight.
Here is a sketch of the how to make it work.
The instructions did not say anything about filling that space with sealer.
WELL IT IS NOW and no more smell of smoke coming out of the beast either.
As far as a surge protector goes, unless you spend the price of a good stove on the protector they wont do much.
Good friend works for the local power company and he advised me that during bad weather etc. to unplug the computers and sensative stuff.
He further explained that the surge protectors that ya buy at the store (little strips) are basically less than worthless.
I have personally seen two high end TV's go away that were plugged into these type units.
The UPS units for computers are great but I really can't justify that sort of $$$$ for a $200 stove.
Yesssss I am enjoying the fire now that I dont have to smell the nuts cooking.
Snowy