I've looked at three Englander Stoves this week with the same problem; igniter heats up (glowing) but fails to ignite.
These were all post 2006 models of the PDVC that utilized a 1/8" metal hose attached to the end of the igniter hose air intake.
The fix:
The igniter is located in a cast iron housing behind the fire wall. Englander has two variations of how this tube draws air. One is to route back to the air intake tube using a rubber hose to connect to two nipple connections (which seems to be the better of th two variations), the other has the 1/8" metal tube inserted into the rubber hose which hangs loose below the convection fan. I suppose the metal tube is to act as a counter weight to keep the hose from mistakenly being sucked into the convection fan. If this tube gets blocked, either by dust, pellet matter or creosote resin, the stove cannot draw air into the igniter housing thus not providing hot air for ignition. Simply remove the hose, jet it out (blow not suck) and reinstall. Whola! We have ignition.
These were all post 2006 models of the PDVC that utilized a 1/8" metal hose attached to the end of the igniter hose air intake.
The fix:
The igniter is located in a cast iron housing behind the fire wall. Englander has two variations of how this tube draws air. One is to route back to the air intake tube using a rubber hose to connect to two nipple connections (which seems to be the better of th two variations), the other has the 1/8" metal tube inserted into the rubber hose which hangs loose below the convection fan. I suppose the metal tube is to act as a counter weight to keep the hose from mistakenly being sucked into the convection fan. If this tube gets blocked, either by dust, pellet matter or creosote resin, the stove cannot draw air into the igniter housing thus not providing hot air for ignition. Simply remove the hose, jet it out (blow not suck) and reinstall. Whola! We have ignition.