I'm new to the forum and just bought my 1st pellet stove. It's a whitfield advantage ll-t. I did quite a bit of research before I bought it and have been reading through the forum to try and figure out my problem. The stove was working fine after I 1st put it in. Then, after my 1st burn over an hour it started developing a lazy flame. Opening and closing the damper had 0 effect. I shut it down and cleaned everything out again.
I tried running it again and got the same result immediately. This time I noticed that the ash drawer was missing the knob and the fire rope between the ash chamber and burn pot had come loose on one corner. I also played around with the heat settings and discovered that turning it up to 5 resulted in a better burn. Every other setting produced a lazy burn. I pushed the fire rope back in and sealed up the ash drawer hole with a bolt. I played around with the combustion fan some more and it seemed to be running really slow on all heat settings except 5. I pulled the side cover off the stove to get a better look at the fan and ran it some more. In the middle of all this it started running better so I fired the stove back up. Ran like a dream for about an hour and then the same thing happened. This time I payed close attention to the fan and it was running really slow on all settings except 5.
From what I've read I'm guessing that the culprit is either the fan motor, the control board, or one of the limit switches. Thoughts, opinions, advice? Am I on the right track here? Thanks in advance for any help.
Tyler
I tried running it again and got the same result immediately. This time I noticed that the ash drawer was missing the knob and the fire rope between the ash chamber and burn pot had come loose on one corner. I also played around with the heat settings and discovered that turning it up to 5 resulted in a better burn. Every other setting produced a lazy burn. I pushed the fire rope back in and sealed up the ash drawer hole with a bolt. I played around with the combustion fan some more and it seemed to be running really slow on all heat settings except 5. I pulled the side cover off the stove to get a better look at the fan and ran it some more. In the middle of all this it started running better so I fired the stove back up. Ran like a dream for about an hour and then the same thing happened. This time I payed close attention to the fan and it was running really slow on all settings except 5.
From what I've read I'm guessing that the culprit is either the fan motor, the control board, or one of the limit switches. Thoughts, opinions, advice? Am I on the right track here? Thanks in advance for any help.
Tyler