US Stove 5660 Trouble

[Trace]

First of all I want to say thanks to hearth.com for providing this message board for those people like me who are clueless! Secondly, I want to do my best to describe my trouble.


Turn on the stove, everything works great....30 seconds or so after the pellets start dropping, I have a tiny fire, then more pellets drop as they should....finally more pellets are dropping and there is a large flame.....the blower fan has not started....so I wait a few more minutes....no fan. Finally the pellets stop dropping and now they stove is shutting down...I have blinking lights on the control panel...the fan button lights are blinking on 2 and 5. The Stove shuts down and cools and here I am. This has been going on the last couple of days, the stove still will not operate properly.


I removed the convection fan tonight and powered it up...started and ran perfectly. I was all set to buy a new one, as the one I have for it is the older model that does squeek a tad on start up....but no sense in buying it yet at $259 from US Stove. There must be something else I can look at or replace that will cause this to work again...any ideas?

 

[pell it]

Sounds like the low temp snap disk is not working. (The one on the exhaust blower housing)

Only for testing!
Do not run stove this way for long

If you feel rowdy, start the stove and let it light and run a few minutes, then jumper the two wires on the low temp snap disk and see if the fan kicks on. If it does, you need a new low temp (proof of fire) snap disk switch.

 

[Trace]

How do I jump those wires, they have the plastic clip covers? Explain? I see exactly what you are talking about, have the wires pulled off

 

[Trace]

You nailed it! Thanks...$24 fix..ordering the part in the morning.

 

[pell it]

http://m.grainger.com/mobile/product/WHITE-RODGERS-Switch-2E248

$7 at Grainger