Last season we bought two used stoves, a 1994 Model whitfield Prodigy II and a Whitfield Advantage II
Both of these stoves run ok for now
My worries have been that the control boards will fail and the cost is $$$$$$$$$$$$
Got on the phone this morning and ordered up two adjustable contollers from a company on the east coast.
These are programable fully electronic controlers.
The one unit has an adjustable off time from .1-10 seconds and the On time from .1 seconds to 5 seconds
The other unit is a one shot (for start up only to bypass the low temp snap switch)
The one shot is programable from .3-30 minutes
These are industrial grade controls rated at 10 amps 120 volts
The game plan is to use the existing safety equipment such as snap switches and the pressure switch along with the feed motor, exhaust fan and Blower inducer.
Pretty simple and basic wiring 101 project.
The beauty of this setup will be the ease at which these can be replaced if need be.
The cost is about $45 each.
They are rated at an infinite amount of cycles.
Wanted to do this last winter but with the nasty weather, I will do these stoves one at a time.
The Prodigy II uses the inducer fan also as the room air fan and just shunt a small amount to the fire pot via a small tube.
The new contollers should be here in about two weeks. (must be assembled to order)
I will post some pix as this progresses.
Going to mock the whole thing up on a seperate plate and do some testing using a small lamp to sub as the feed motor.
I will eliminate the pressure switch and the door interlock switch in the test equipment just to simplify the testing.
I want to check this all out and then transfer the components to the stove and do the complete rewire using all new wire qand color code and number stuff.
The original wiring is rather vague as far as color codes and routing.
Both these stoves can stand to have this stuff cleaned up and simplified a lot.
I am going to include a few extra lights in the control panel (all new) to allow easy diagnostics should the stove have a malfunction.
The indicator lamps will show Main power, feed motor power, auger motor power while feeding and Blower motor power.
The order went in about 1:30 PM pacifc time and they said about two weeks.
Going to be nice to have this wrapped up.
Once I get the Prodigy done, then it will be time to do the Advantage II
The procedure can be used on most older pellet stoves that do not have an auto lighter.
Hope this is useful or interesting to others.
Snowy
Both of these stoves run ok for now
My worries have been that the control boards will fail and the cost is $$$$$$$$$$$$
Got on the phone this morning and ordered up two adjustable contollers from a company on the east coast.
These are programable fully electronic controlers.
The one unit has an adjustable off time from .1-10 seconds and the On time from .1 seconds to 5 seconds
The other unit is a one shot (for start up only to bypass the low temp snap switch)
The one shot is programable from .3-30 minutes
These are industrial grade controls rated at 10 amps 120 volts
The game plan is to use the existing safety equipment such as snap switches and the pressure switch along with the feed motor, exhaust fan and Blower inducer.
Pretty simple and basic wiring 101 project.
The beauty of this setup will be the ease at which these can be replaced if need be.
The cost is about $45 each.
They are rated at an infinite amount of cycles.
Wanted to do this last winter but with the nasty weather, I will do these stoves one at a time.
The Prodigy II uses the inducer fan also as the room air fan and just shunt a small amount to the fire pot via a small tube.
The new contollers should be here in about two weeks. (must be assembled to order)
I will post some pix as this progresses.
Going to mock the whole thing up on a seperate plate and do some testing using a small lamp to sub as the feed motor.
I will eliminate the pressure switch and the door interlock switch in the test equipment just to simplify the testing.
I want to check this all out and then transfer the components to the stove and do the complete rewire using all new wire qand color code and number stuff.
The original wiring is rather vague as far as color codes and routing.
Both these stoves can stand to have this stuff cleaned up and simplified a lot.
I am going to include a few extra lights in the control panel (all new) to allow easy diagnostics should the stove have a malfunction.
The indicator lamps will show Main power, feed motor power, auger motor power while feeding and Blower motor power.
The order went in about 1:30 PM pacifc time and they said about two weeks.
Going to be nice to have this wrapped up.
Once I get the Prodigy done, then it will be time to do the Advantage II
The procedure can be used on most older pellet stoves that do not have an auto lighter.
Hope this is useful or interesting to others.
Snowy