- Oct 16, 2012
- 107
I've had my beautiful XXV for 9 years now and have replaced everything replaceable EXCEPT for the auger at least once.
The POORLY designed distributor fan/motor places the motor right next to exhaust outlet which is a very high heat area which destroys the motor quickly. My last one only lasted 13 months. At $350 dollars a pop that's not acceptable for such a high end EXPENSIVE stove. Shame on you Harman!
I took the junk fan/motor out, kept the 2 back panels OFF and jimmyrigged a shroud behind the stove on the opposite side of the combustion motor using sheetmetal and a few old liscence plates and put a basic cheap box fan behind that. I started out with my Milwaukee 7" fan which worked well but I was worried about ruining it by running it 24/7 so I replaced it with a cheapo bigger box fan that will run for years and only costs like 20 bucks or so compared to the $350.- Harman fan that only lasts barely over a year. The air output from my jimmyrigged setup actually pus MORE air thru the stove to better distribute the heat into the room, I also put a small 6" fan on the combustion fan side on the rear of the stove to help out a bit.
Happy happy I finally found a solution to this problem that should not have existed in the first place.
edited to add.... ALL the Harman fan motors I kept replacing were not the cheap chineese replicas but were the SPENDY junk OEM real Harman parts
The POORLY designed distributor fan/motor places the motor right next to exhaust outlet which is a very high heat area which destroys the motor quickly. My last one only lasted 13 months. At $350 dollars a pop that's not acceptable for such a high end EXPENSIVE stove. Shame on you Harman!
I took the junk fan/motor out, kept the 2 back panels OFF and jimmyrigged a shroud behind the stove on the opposite side of the combustion motor using sheetmetal and a few old liscence plates and put a basic cheap box fan behind that. I started out with my Milwaukee 7" fan which worked well but I was worried about ruining it by running it 24/7 so I replaced it with a cheapo bigger box fan that will run for years and only costs like 20 bucks or so compared to the $350.- Harman fan that only lasts barely over a year. The air output from my jimmyrigged setup actually pus MORE air thru the stove to better distribute the heat into the room, I also put a small 6" fan on the combustion fan side on the rear of the stove to help out a bit.
Happy happy I finally found a solution to this problem that should not have existed in the first place.
edited to add.... ALL the Harman fan motors I kept replacing were not the cheap chineese replicas but were the SPENDY junk OEM real Harman parts
