First timer here. Thought I would relay my experience since I did not see a similar problem posted. This is my 4th winter using a purchased used 25-PDVC. Nominally 1.3 40# bags per day. This season it seemed to be running very hot and using a lot of pellets about a week in. No adjustment of LFF, LBA or AOT seemed to make a difference. Checked the mode, D, as it should be. Closed the restrictive plate in the botttom of the hopper, played and played with it. I could see the upper auger was running for 10 secs and off for 5. I knew this was way too much. Diagnostic mode was good except for no upper auger movement. That coupled with too much feed prompted me to conclude the CB (original?) was bad. A new board had no effect. After playing with it for more than a week I happened to put a test light on the upper auger leads so that I could see what it was doing while I played with the CB settings. This is when I noticed it was powered (by a heat setting of 1) for less than a second, but was turning for 10 secs (and stopped for 5)! The motor was a year old or so. Apparently, the gearbox friction became so low that the motor and auger 'coasted' for 9 secs pushing pellets. I had a spare motor to try and found it would 'coast' for about 3 secs (uninstalled) with about the same (less than one second) amount of power. Sorry, for my post length. Hoping that someone else might see this as helpful down the road. 
- Jim
- Jim
