My Harman P43 won't light but continues to fill up the burner with pellets. I've tried unplugging to reset but still no fire. The stove is only 4 months old am I missing something?
Bigjim13 said:Have you cleaned the igniter? Not sure how the P43 is set up, but with my P61 when it does what yours sounds like it is doing I have to clean my igniter. Mine is right under the burnpot and there are 2 wing nuts holding the cover in place. Pull that off, vaccum it out and starts working fine again. If you havent done that yet since getting it, that would be my suggestion. I would say its to soon for your igniter to need to be replaced if you only got if 4 months ago, unless you bought used. But crazier things have happened!
give that a shot and keep us posted!
Pelletfisky said:Bigjim13 said:Have you cleaned the igniter? Not sure how the P43 is set up, but with my P61 when it does what yours sounds like it is doing I have to clean my igniter. Mine is right under the burnpot and there are 2 wing nuts holding the cover in place. Pull that off, vaccum it out and starts working fine again. If you havent done that yet since getting it, that would be my suggestion. I would say its to soon for your igniter to need to be replaced if you only got if 4 months ago, unless you bought used. But crazier things have happened!
give that a shot and keep us posted!
Same set up as the P43 as the P61. I had the same issue at least three times with the igniter getting caked with ash and not allowing the pellets to light. So let stove off because even though the igniter is not lighting the pellets its still hot! take off the plate like explained above and clean out the ash well. Get up under the burn pot all along the igniter but be careful not to damage the igniter. Also use a toothpick to push the burn pot air holes and you will see ash fall out.
PJPellet said:I clean the ignitor area once a week too. Another benefit of keeping that area clean is the ignitor will last longer because it will ignite the pellets faster. The faster the pellets light the shorter the ignitor stays on and the longer it will last. Win win!
Well something doesn't sound quite right here. The 15 fin igniter (which replaced the older failure prone 13 fin) has not had many problems. I would definitely check with your utility company so you can rule that issue out. You are definitely still under warranty so that shouldn't be a problem.My harman p43 is one year old. This year it will intermittently not light. It will run ok in room temp mode for 4-5 days, then the pellets pile up in the burn pot till it overfills but no ignition. If i empty the burn pot of the pellets and restart the stove it will then light.
The dealer came over and got readings of 5-6 on the air pressure gauge which he said were normal. The voltage to the blowers was fine. Ignitor had 47 ohm resistance. He then totally cleaned the stove, cleaned the venting pipes, took off the wire screen of the jet exhaust on the outside, spoke with the harman factory rep and told me the problem should be solved. I paid my $120 bill and stove ran based on the room temp settng of 65 degrees for 5 days. After this the same problem recurred.
On the second visit the rep did all the readings agan which were the same and all were normal, spent one hour online with Harman factorey rep, replaced the circut board even though it did not show any issues. He then told me my voltage comng into the house was 127V and the stove was malfunctionng because of it. He wants me to call my utility and get the voltage adjusted down. I personally feel he has no clue and is BS me. ANY HELP appreciated Thanks.
.....I wish I had stuck wth my trusty old vermont castng woodstove......
Actually, you could run it in room temp/manual and it would remain lit until you ran out of pellets as well.You would have to run the stove in stove temp mode to keep it running, though.
My Harman P43 won't light but continues to fill up the burner with pellets. I've tried unplugging to reset but still no fire. The stove is only 4 months old am I missing something?
They shouldn't be charging you anything! I assume the $120 for for the cleaning??Thanks to all for suggestions
Subsailor. Since this happens every 5-7 days only I am not there to see how mucn ash is there in burn pot. Sounds logical though so how do fix this? I do scrape the burnpot after every bag is put in, currently one bag of barefoot pellets is lasting about 1-2 days depending on the outside temperature.
Milkman what is the DIP settng? The store tech ran multiple tests and did not mention this setting.
Silverfox if I keep runnng it in manual mode I am not sure how I can figure out what is going on since it happens intermttently.
Harmon Lover I know it is under warranty but the dealer does not know what to do and neither does the Harman Factory rep. After charging me $120 dollars they seem to be punting the problem. I dont know what other recourse I have? Any suggestions?
They shouldn't be charging you anything! I assume the $120 for for the cleaning??
Oh and by the way...it's HarmAn.....
Really?? If it turns out to be a warranty issue (not the cleaning) Harman doesn't reimburse the Stove Shop or Tech? Thats not the way it works here.Service calls are not covered under the warranty.
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