My Pellet Stove Sounds Like A Freight Train

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Cobalt

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Dec 18, 2015
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Hello everyone. I never thought I would be joining a forum about stoves but I am very happy to be here and thankful for any advice I may get. We bought this house a year ago and it has a pellet stove. It is a Quadra Fire Mt. Vernon AE model. It seems like a really nice stove. Around the end of winter last year I noticed that it started to make a rumbling sound, not too bad but a sound that was not there when we first started using it. This stove is 3 years now and has been professionaly cleaned every year. Now this year which is our second year of using this stove the noise is unbearable. It really does sound like a freight train. It's not the blower that I know of. It happens only when the stove first lights up and first thing in the morning is when it is the worst. We have it set for 4am and it wakes us every morning. It happens about 5-10 minutes after the stove lights and then will make this noise on an off for around 35 minutes and then it will stop and the noise will be gone. I was thinking about getting up tomorrow at 6am and making a cell phone video of it and posting a link here so you all can see and hear what im talking about. There is no way that this can be normal. Ive read about clanking sounds and this is not a clanking sound at all. I surely will appreciate any help. Thanks.
 
Minister Of Fire thank you for your reply. You have a stove very similar to mine. By ash pan door do you mean the container at the bottom of the stove that catches the ash and pulls out? I just looked at that and it was not pushed in closed all the way. I did not realize that you had to push it in and then kind of make sure that it was locked in place. There was definitely a gap. We will know for sure in the morning and I hope you are correct. Thanks again.
 
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I have 2 stoves and one is the mt. vernon ae. That will solve your problem.
 
I just turned it up to 75 so it would come on and i had it running for 20 minutes and the noise is gone. I really appreciate the help you gave me as I have been searching for the solution for quite awhile. I even wrote to Quadrafire and received no response. Thank you for your help.
 
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Wow you posted to the right place this time, quick response tsmith !
 
This is one of those issues that would make a great "searchable sticky", if the mods could figure out a way to do so without having so many at just the top of a forum. It comes up every year for the MVAE, and the ash pan drawer / seal is always the culprit. Nice job, tsmith.
 
Also too much fuel will cause this issue. Does it on my Sante Fe mostly when I am burning corn, and it feeds more then it is burning, till it catches up. kap
 
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Glad it worked out for ya, enjoy.
 
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