For the more technically versed - I need some help, would appreciate response/opinion:
Yesterday during filling the hopper with new pellets my stove made a load klack/bang noise and went entirely silent (I was not there, but so my wife says). WHen I tried to restart, nothing happened, no on light at all - so I figured either a thermodisk snapped (although weird) or a fuse had blown or my fuse in the basement tripped. Sure enough, after some looking around where actually the stupid electronic panel is in this thing I found a blown 5A/125 V fuse right on the e board.
So, got to town today, got a new fuse, replaced and fired up the stove again - what a relief, system seemed to work again.
However, now I have no control over the auger anymore and it is apparently delivering on max speed (or the equivalent of the max feeding rate). Unfortunatly, it does so at medium fan speed (so the usual coupling of auger speed/feed rate with fan speed seems to be broken as well) and the stove gets superhot in no time. Art first I was joking and liked the new heat output at 1/5 setting, but then the surface of the stove got so hot that actually water would start boiling off the top surface (puzzling enough though, no thermodisk is tripping so far or if so, it has no effect anymore).
Is it safe to assume that my electronics board is fried ? What would cause a 5 A (thats a lot of juice !) fuse to blow on an electronic board in the first place ? During my inspection I found no excessive dust on the motors or inside the stove at all - so I dont think any motor had to work harder than usual and would draw so much amps...can a power surge do this ?
I am a bit puzzled what happened and why. I called the dealer since the BOSCA has some great warranty that should cover all this nonesense, but now they tell me I have to pay for the labor and BOSCA only pays for parts (although Warranty clearly states BOSCA is paying for labor and parts for 2-7 years, parts dependant).
Any input would be much appreciated !
Yesterday during filling the hopper with new pellets my stove made a load klack/bang noise and went entirely silent (I was not there, but so my wife says). WHen I tried to restart, nothing happened, no on light at all - so I figured either a thermodisk snapped (although weird) or a fuse had blown or my fuse in the basement tripped. Sure enough, after some looking around where actually the stupid electronic panel is in this thing I found a blown 5A/125 V fuse right on the e board.
So, got to town today, got a new fuse, replaced and fired up the stove again - what a relief, system seemed to work again.
However, now I have no control over the auger anymore and it is apparently delivering on max speed (or the equivalent of the max feeding rate). Unfortunatly, it does so at medium fan speed (so the usual coupling of auger speed/feed rate with fan speed seems to be broken as well) and the stove gets superhot in no time. Art first I was joking and liked the new heat output at 1/5 setting, but then the surface of the stove got so hot that actually water would start boiling off the top surface (puzzling enough though, no thermodisk is tripping so far or if so, it has no effect anymore).
Is it safe to assume that my electronics board is fried ? What would cause a 5 A (thats a lot of juice !) fuse to blow on an electronic board in the first place ? During my inspection I found no excessive dust on the motors or inside the stove at all - so I dont think any motor had to work harder than usual and would draw so much amps...can a power surge do this ?
I am a bit puzzled what happened and why. I called the dealer since the BOSCA has some great warranty that should cover all this nonesense, but now they tell me I have to pay for the labor and BOSCA only pays for parts (although Warranty clearly states BOSCA is paying for labor and parts for 2-7 years, parts dependant).
Any input would be much appreciated !