I serviced a customer today, they had a Lennox Whitfield P30 insert. Said it wasn't working. We had been to the stove in December last year for its winter cleaning so it wasn't that bad. I pulled it out, disconnected the vent, removed the burn grate, stuck my vac in the exhaust collar and fired her up. Combustion and convection blower can on full then idled down, pellets fed so I opened the door and put my hand in front of the igniter to see if it was warm. So here was the thing I had never noticed before. There was hot air blowing out of the igniter tube. Never realized it, not sure if all Whitfields with ignition are like this but the weep holes for the igniter are inside the convection blower wall. Awesome awesome awesome! Keeps the ash out of the tube AND provides pressurized ignition as well as equalateral cooling of the igniter. Many stoves draw air across the cartridge but rely on the stove to make a vacuum seal and it sucks it across. Work as long as there is enough air flow, dirty stove may equal no ignition or worse, premature igniter failure. Wicked cool to find something new with such an old unit. Very excited.always wondered why Whitfields had the convection blower running at start up, makes sense now.
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, most manufactures recommend to run the hopper out every so often to help remove any pellet fine accumulations.
