So. I gave my stove a good first of the year cleaning last week. Bear with me on being complete here as I always read people asking for help and not providing any info.
What I cleaned:
After all this I can't remember if the next burn, or within a day, this issue started but the prior month of daily use it was not having this issue.
The issue:
What I cleaned:
I didn't pull it out to clean but I cleaned all the inside. Including the burn pot holes, the area inside the burn pot with the igniter inside there deep and thorough. Behind the removable metal plates including behind them along the walls. I did not take off the combustion door and clean the fan BUT I did thoroughly clean all the underneath, where the removable long metal plate is with the set screw on the right.
What I didn't clean this time:So I didn't clean the combustion fan itself, it wasn't touched. (More on this later) I cleaned around the door but didn't open it. And like I said I did not pull it out to clean behind, I need a helper for that and they weren't around.
After all this I can't remember if the next burn, or within a day, this issue started but the prior month of daily use it was not having this issue.
The issue:
The stove is turned on, it feeds normally, it ignites, but when this started it would ignite fine and then the flame would whimper out within 30 min. Last night after doing some tests (more on that later) it ignites some pellets and then it doesn't even produce a flame, just embers. And this flame was like 10-20% of a normal raging fire. It was a weak fire and it was odd because instead of the fire reaching way up the wall inside it barely reached the medallion above the burn pot. Something in the sensors must eventually tell it to quit as it doesn't seem to get going enough for it to continue.
To be complete but keep this from getting too long the issue I am now convinced it is related to airflow, the fire is not getting enough in some way and it just quits eventually. So last night my Uncle came over, and we checked the 3 fans. 1 combustion and 2 distribution fans. We cleaned them all out. We put a wire brush up 15 feet of the chimney and cleaned that, he didn't think what fell out was too dirty, nothing hard or blocking.
I cleaned the combustion fan well, including the 12inch tube that goes up to the chimney flue. Put the combustion fan cover back on right. We were suspecting it may be this fan. After we pulled it out this fan motor was very hot to the touch but the fan spins extremely well after spinning it manually. We disconnected it and did the old wire trick to the power outlet to feed it 110v. I felt the air pressure coming out the tube in the back and it has to be good. It was a lot of air flowing out. Still if we had to guess this lack of air movement is preventing the fire from starting fully. The distribution fan does come on and blow full speed as normal but its not long after they kick on that the fire is whimpering out so the air is barely warm. I have seen it give a 5 code blink and a 6 code blink. I haven't checked everytime but we do get codes. Also I forgot to mention the gasket on door seems ok but I have one being delivered today.
I got a service call from the local dealer on Saturday but wondering if this post may give me another idea to check first. Sorry to be long but trying to be complete.
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