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    Help me pick the best stove!

    Greetings! I am looking for a pellet stove to heat my house. I have 15-1600 sq ft to heat, plus a basement that I don't really need heated. I have grown up with pellet stoves all my life, but now have a house that operates on fuel oil alone. I am not interested in being stuck with >$5 per gallon...
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    Wood Pellets - Ambiance vs logik-e

    We are on our second season using the Regency Greenfire GF55 pellet stove (2022). Last heating season we burned Ambiance - premium wood pellets with no real issues I would say. Bag indicates Ash<1%, Moisture<8%. This season we have been burning Logik-e - super premium hard wood pellets with a...
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    Harmon P43 hums/won't start after plugging into surge protection

    We've got a Harmon P43, 7 years old. Plugged it into a surge protector a few days ago and it only buzzes, the blower and auger won't start. Pulled it from the surge protector and plugged directly back into outlet with same result. Now it won't do anything but buzz. This happened last year after...
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    Enviro Windsor 220V Pellet Stove Extinguishes After Lighting

    I am located in Chiba, Japan and have a circa 2004 Enviro Windsor 220V stove. The outfit that sold and supported these 220V models in Japan is long gone. The stove lights fine and gets a nice flame, then the pellets stop feeding and it dies and light #3 blinks. I have followed all the...
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    Osborne 3000 Auger Noise

    I have an Osborne 3000 pellet stove. Recently the auger has been making a grinding noise. I removed the auger and cleaned everything. Reinstalled it and it is still happening. It isn’t constant, but rather it happens in short bursts every 40 seconds or so. When I was cleaning the space the...
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    Englander Low Fuel Speed

    Hi all I have a 2005 englander 25-EPI and the lower 3 settings LFF, LBA and AOT will not allow me to change any of them for some reason? I recently swapped boards with the original one as my brother in law had got another stove and took the board from mine due to wiring and solder issues, long...
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    Pellet Stove Basement Venting

    Hello, I am interested in installing a pellet stove in my basement. My house has a brick exterior. I am interested in going through the rim joist and then out the brick. I have been searching around for an example of this, but I cannot find it. I did find something similar. It was mentioned to...
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    Help with Control Board for Quadrafire Classic Bay 1200 insert

    First post all, thanks for your patience and welcome (having a bit of a rough morning, found out my main furnace isn't working this morning, either!) This morning my replacement exhaust blower mower arrived for my 16 yr old former exhaust blower (original OEM, not too bad of a life!) that was...
  9. AudiOOOOLady

    Refurbished Harman P61A Odd Noise

    Hello all! New here and new to pellet stoves. I have done an excessive amount of research from Facebook, YouTube, and on this forum. Have read and learned many things. I have a brand new P43 and “refurbished” P61A. The P61A has been giving me problems since we bought it a little over two weeks...
  10. etorres16

    Quadra-Fire Castile Not Working

    We moved into a new home last year with a Quadra-Fire Castile pellet stove. It worked great last winter, no issues other than occasionally needing to hit the reset button. This year, however, it has had issues feeding and igniting. The thermostat flashes "HEAT", the red call light comes on, and...
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    Cleaning a KP130

    I bought a KP130 after having issues with a Ashley(VG)5790 for 4 years. There where areas not mentioned or diagramsed that needed cleaning to maintain proper airflow to prevent pellets from overflowing on my old stove. Turns out after all the reading, calling and parts replacing... the feed...
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    Whitfield profile 30-damper gasket help

    Hey all-new here but have been stalking your posts for two years. First thanks for all the wonderful knowledge y’all share. We are in a home with an old Whitfield Profile 30. It’s in really great shape and so far all problems have resolved themselves with time, effort and cleaning! Tonight’s...
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    Englander pah-25 stove problems

    Hey guys again so I got a englander pah-25 recently on Facebook market place just for heat in the garage and it worked great the first night then all of a sudden I went the turn it on and it wouldn’t light up or anything then I hit the off button and the stove would light up so I tried resetting...
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    Pellet stove not getting hot

    Hey everybody, i hope you all are well and warm, i recently bought a used Englander 25-pdvc made in 2015, i have gone through 3 bags of pellets so far. I feel that im not getting as much heat as i should be, on lowest heat setting (its set on d, 6,4,1) with the fan set on 3 i am getting my...
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    King pellet stove deluxe settings help!

    Hey guys so I have a king pellet stove deluxe and my buddy showed me some settings he runs in his stove and says it’s good and stays on till he turns it off and it’s low draft setting 270 and high draft set to 425 low feed to 1.70 and high feed 3.45 and draft fan on auto with t stat I keep it...
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    How often do you clean your liner? Any Tips?

    It looks like along with the yearly maintenance on my Harman Accentra I should clean the liner. 1. What tool do you recommend for a 4inch 25ft liner? I have this pellet stove/ dryer hose cleaner that I use in a smaller pellet stove, but I would hate to lose it somewhere up in the liner. 2 If...
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    Pellet stove for Yurt--recommendations?

    Hello! I am looking for a pellet stove for my newly built yurt. It's 450 sq feet with insulated floor, wall, and ceiling (though it will never be as well insulated as a real house). I'm in Oregon in the Willamette valley where average low temps in winter are in the low 30s. The yurt is my year...
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    Winslow PS40 Pellet Stove - Lazy Flame and Dies after 20 minutes to 2 hours

    Hi all, New to the forum here hoping to find a solution for my Winslow PS40 Pellet Stove. It was running great for awhile, starts up fine, but dies out after 20 minutes to 2 hours. Here is a list of everything I have tried Cleaned the stove thoroughly including Fire switch Combustion blower...
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    Whitfield Advantage II-T HELP

    Hello All, I am hoping someone may be able to give me a little advice on my issue. I have a Whitfield Advantage II-T free standing pellet stove. I had just replaced the auger motor last week as well as the brass bushing/plate because the auger stopped working. This seemed to fix the issue. It...
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    Garage won’t go past 50 degrees

    It’s about 20 degrees outside. I have the pellet stove running on 5 in my insulated garage. The garage is a 2.5 car garage. I need to be about 70 degrees, however it won’t heat up past 50 degrees. What is going on?
  21. Quadra-Fire Trekker Pellet Stove Light Off

    Quadra-Fire Trekker Pellet Stove Light Off

    The Quadra-Fire Trekker pellet stove automatically lighting off. Stove lights 3:30 in. Stove is also knows as the Quadra-Fire Mt Vernon E2-C.
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    PelPro stove installed 16" from wall; should be 3". What can we do?

    Hi and thanks in advance for any insights and ideas shared here! We had a PelPro pellet stove installed in a corner of our living room. This was a new installation - no pellet or wood burning stove had ever existed before. Link to manual...
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    Harman P43 or P68 - Cathedral Ceilings

    Hi everyone! I am trying to decide on which Harman model for my first pellet stove. I will give you some background. My house has a Lopi Liberty wood stove in the basement, which is running pretty much 24/7. I have backup electric baseboard heat. Since I moved in, I have religiously been filling...
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    Wall Thimble leaking smoke, Duravent Pellet Vent.

    We just bought a huge house in New Hampshire , hard to heat of course. It came with a fairly new looking Santa Fe Quadrafire. It has a Duravent PelletVent on the wall. This is a telescoping wall thimble, the inner and outer pieces slide together and allow a wide range of wall thickness. My walls...
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    AcuTron II Control Help

    We have a pellet stove with the AcuTron II Control Board and I haven’t used us since the beginning of the year and had it serviced then, but now when I go to Start it, the only light that lights is the igniter. No other lights are flashing or showing. What does this mean? How would I fix this issue?
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    Need advice on pellet stove

    I just purchased a new home and am interested in getting a pellet stove. The previous owners had a pellet stove, so we have the vents/intake needed. Here's where I ran into a problem. So, I am interested in getting a Harman stove, as that's the type stove I had growing up. It's been going strong...
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    HELP Quad fire CB1200 shuts down on cold nights

    Hello, I am a new member to this site and this is my first post. I have been having this issue for about 2 years now, I’ve read many similar posts on here and have tried the recommendations some members have suggested but with no luck. I have a classic bay 1200 that I’ve been noticing, shuts...
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    Honeywell WiFi thermostat won’t turn on Lopi pellet stove

    We connected the Honeywell WiFi thermostat with a VIIVRIA 24 V transformer, C wire adapter, to our Lopi AGP pellet stove. The thermostat will work to keep the stove on until it reaches the set temp, and will put the stove in cool down and off, but the stove won’t turn back on when temps drop...
  29. Sifan7x7

    Harman p35i no flame

    Okay i am stumped. I bought a harman p35i insert last December. It ran fine till it was time to shut it down. I burnt 2 tons in it. I did A thorough cleaning on everything the manual says even the exhaust chimney. Now I’m starting it back up. I have it on room temp and the feed rate at #4. There...
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    A Couple Tips I Discovered...

    Let me start by saying if these tips are common knowledge, I apologize for wasting your time. TIP #1: The next time you clean or replace your combustion blower fan blade spray a coating of Teflon dry lubricant on it. It will stick well through many cleanings and can easily handle the heat and...