Englander PDVC 25 room air blower spinning slowly

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I just picked up a 2008 Englander off Craigslist and installed it today.

I fired it up and let it run for over an hour on heat setting "5" but the room air blower only ever spun slowly. The top of the stove got way to hot to touch in that time. I checked the bottom right button "Air on Temp" and it displays "1".

If I look behind it, the fan to cool the motor is spinning so the fan is turning. Because of this I assume the heat sensor is working. Starting from a setting of 9 and turning it down at setting 5 I can hear a change in the fan. Going down to 1 I can hear barely perceptible changes at each setting. At settings above 5 I can't hear any difference.

When I unplug the stove and watch the cooling fan in the back it takes forever to spin down, so it doesn't seem as if the fan is difficult to turn.

I switched the fan leads to the lower auger motor and it was the same thing, could barely feel a breath of air on the back of my hand. I'm assuming it's time for a new fan?

Thanks

 

[Harvey Schneider]

I just picked up a 2008 Englander off Craigslist and installed it today.

I fired it up and let it run for over an hour on heat setting "5" but the room air blower only ever spun slowly. The top of the stove got way to hot to touch in that time. I checked the bottom right button "Air on Temp" and it displays "1".

If I look behind it, the fan to cool the motor is spinning so the fan is turning. Because of this I assume the heat sensor is working. Starting from a setting of 9 and turning it down at setting 5 I can hear a change in the fan. Going down to 1 I can hear barely perceptible changes at each setting. At settings above 5 I can't hear any difference.

When I unplug the stove and watch the cooling fan in the back it takes forever to spin down, so it doesn't seem as if the fan is difficult to turn.

I switched the fan leads to the lower auger motor and it was the same thing, could barely feel a breath of air on the back of my hand. I'm assuming it's time for a new fan?

Thanks

Is the set screw on the blower shaft tight?

 

[bookpile]

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Think I found the problem. There appears to be a small rodent stuck in my fan.

Thanks. Will check the setscrew while I have it out.

 

[bookpile]

Yup, cleaning the fan fixed the problem. I can't believe what a difference it made in the airflow. No wonder the guy had to buy a bigger stove, it was essentially a wood stove. I just wish I had cleaned it before I installed it.

It's also a lot louder now that it's actually working. I'm guessing it was so heavy it wasn't able to spin fast enough.

 

[Lake Girl]

Pet hair May want to get a manual and give the rest of it a really good cleaning ... combustion fan, internal smoke pathways, oil fans as needed.

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Enjoy the heat!