Avalon Astoria Fault

[Mb9128]

Good evening,

This season I fired up my Avalon Astoria stove and it quickly faulted out (Low/Fault: Flow switch fault). I thought I had cleaned the stove pretty well, so I decided try the leaf blower trick. Cleaned out the exhaust thoroughly, cleaned all other ports I could get to. Restarted the stove, same issue. I went to the dealer and replaced the draft switch.

Replaced draft switch, stove ran for about an hour. Stove faulted out, shut down and filled my house with smoke. Checked my exhaust blower, the fan was weak and didn't appear to be spinning very freely. I credited this to my stove being old and the bearing being worn out. Bought a new replacement exhaust blower, installed stove started up ran great for 5-6 hours last night.

Fast forward to today, started the stove tonight it ran for about 10 minutes and faulted out. Same fault, (Low/Fault). Any input ? I feel like at this point I'm just throwing parts at this stove.

 

[earl764]

Hello,

How old exactly is the stove?

Have you had a chance to observe it fault "live" to watch for any strange behavior?

Any bulging capacitors on the control board?

Earl

 

[Mb9128]

Hello,

How old exactly is the stove?

Have you had a chance to observe it fault "live" to watch for any strange behavior?

Any bulging capacitors on the control board?

Earl

I don't have an exact date of the stove. The folks we bought it from I believe bought it new in 2010.

Control board looks fine, I have the old style one that reads fault instead of mait.
Required.

I just tried the stove again tonight, faulted out right after I started it. as far as any irregular behavior, no. It is feeding pellets, blowing heat, burning nicely and then the fault light comes on. Once that happens you can start to smell the odor of smoke.

 

[earl764]

Hrm.

The smoke smell begins after the fault triggers the exhaust blower to halt.

Which fault does it give? It should give some specific fault or perhaps a code you look can up?

I have the newer style which reads maint. required.

You've already done the majority of the things I'd suggest, so there is a bit of straw grasping at this point...