I am having some trouble with a new to me Enviro Windsor (now the Empress). Stove starts and runs but system light remains blinking and I cannot manually control the heat settings thus I can't heat my space beyond 60 degrees (600 SF basement). Stove has had a deep cleaning and was in very nice shape and little used when I bought it.
I confirmed the previous owner had the stove connected to a thermostat, so I removed the control board and swapped the jumper on J9 to what should be the On/Off mode of operation. Even doing so, the stove even after 30 minutes has the system light still blinking.
I found it strange that the Enviro manual explains where to place the J9 jumper for thermostat operation (both On/Off and Hi/Lo), but it does not mention anything about where to place the jumper if you want to manually control the heat settings with no thermostat connected...so I removed the jumper entirely and no change...system light still blinks and stove is seemingly running on the lowest heat setting.
Then I'm reading the manual and it shows a photo of the control panel and what all the buttons do...but it does not explain what the bottom button on my control panel does (see attached pic...it is the button under the On/Off button with the vertical line on it).
So I pushed that button while the stove was running (and the system light was blinking)...and after pressing the button the system light was now solid. Left it on for a few hours and returned to find the light blinking again. Pressed this bottom button again and the light went back to solid...then I raised the heat level to 5 which sped up the auger feed rate but if you ask me the fire did not change much and seemed a bit lazy and not hot enough.
So now I'm a bit confused...any suggestions? Should I just run a thermostat to it and place the J9 jumper in the appropriate location? Or do these symptoms suggest some other problem?
Thanks for looking and hoping someone can help out...calls to Enviro corporate are not wielding much help nor is local service.
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I confirmed the previous owner had the stove connected to a thermostat, so I removed the control board and swapped the jumper on J9 to what should be the On/Off mode of operation. Even doing so, the stove even after 30 minutes has the system light still blinking.
I found it strange that the Enviro manual explains where to place the J9 jumper for thermostat operation (both On/Off and Hi/Lo), but it does not mention anything about where to place the jumper if you want to manually control the heat settings with no thermostat connected...so I removed the jumper entirely and no change...system light still blinks and stove is seemingly running on the lowest heat setting.
Then I'm reading the manual and it shows a photo of the control panel and what all the buttons do...but it does not explain what the bottom button on my control panel does (see attached pic...it is the button under the On/Off button with the vertical line on it).
So I pushed that button while the stove was running (and the system light was blinking)...and after pressing the button the system light was now solid. Left it on for a few hours and returned to find the light blinking again. Pressed this bottom button again and the light went back to solid...then I raised the heat level to 5 which sped up the auger feed rate but if you ask me the fire did not change much and seemed a bit lazy and not hot enough.
So now I'm a bit confused...any suggestions? Should I just run a thermostat to it and place the J9 jumper in the appropriate location? Or do these symptoms suggest some other problem?
Thanks for looking and hoping someone can help out...calls to Enviro corporate are not wielding much help nor is local service.
Congrats on the stove. Keep her clean and happy. Hope you have surge protection and a CO detector. If you haven't installed an OAK, seriously think of that as it will be competing with your furnace, dryer, etc. for air!![[Hearth.com] Enviro Windsor Troubleshooting](https://www.hearth.com/talk/data/attachments/126/126453-62d4c6ea8ff0bdd8b541e6cca959174b.jpg?hash=xwGEQ_VLky "[Hearth.com] Enviro Windsor Troubleshooting")
