Help with Breckwell p24

[Terry B]

Hi all,
I've had my breckwell p24 for five years now and this is the first problem I've had with it and it has me puzzled !
The stove shuts down in a blinking two error. Sometimes it will run for awhile and then shut down for the 2 error.
Here's what I did so far...... Vent pipe is clear I even ran my shop vac in the pipe to make sure nothing was blocking it checked it with a flash light.....all clear. While it was shutting down I checked the blower motor by taking the inside panel off and looked in...Blower running and spinning. Checked all door gaskets nice and soft. Checked the air switch hole and tube.. not plugged and tube not cracked and soft . Auger feeding pellets the way it should..I even timed the feed rate ...ok. Didn't see anything as far as cracks in burn chamber. I did have it running for awhile early this morning on the high low trim setting and turned it up to the 2 setting after it was running a short time on the 2 setting it shut down on the #2 error. It will only run a short time before giving the #2 error now. Now I have been working with this since 1 am this morning and covered all the bases (I THINK ). Now with that being said I have noticed the glass soots up pretty fast and the burn pot don't seem like the ash is being blown out. It seem the pellets are not burning fast enough. I have adjusted the damper to try to get more air in the flame seems lazy and the flame seems to burn back toward the pellet chute. Don't know if any of this has anything to do with the error #2 but I thought that I'd give you all the info I could. Thanks for your help!

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

You have ash in the vent system (the exhaust side of the vent system starts just above the burn pot and goes up over the top of the firebox walls and down behind that wall and finally gets to the exhaust (combustion) blower, sometimes stoves have a convoluted path behind the firebox and ash traps) somewhere or a gasket that is no longer doing its job, or something in the intake side of the vent system this goes from the outside of the stove into the area under the burn pot (this is called the air intake in the manuals), or the damper is fully closed.

 

[Terry B]

You have ash in the vent system (the exhaust side of the vent system starts just above the burn pot and goes up over the top of the firebox walls and down behind that wall and finally gets to the exhaust (combustion) blower, sometimes stoves have a convoluted path behind the firebox and ash traps) somewhere or a gasket that is no longer doing its job, or something in the intake side of the vent system this goes from the outside of the stove into the area under the burn pot (this is called the air intake in the manuals), or the damper is fully closed.

I open all the all fire box doors and checked each one no ash build up was seen..Vent pipe clear. I ran a jumper wire between the air switch wires and started the stove. It's been running for about an hour or so now. How can I tell if is the air switch that's the problem ? Burn pot was cleaned no blockage of air intake. Now above the heat tubes there is a opening on both sides for the exhaust to escape between the panels right ? How can you make sure there's no ash build up there blocking the air flow ?

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

I open all the all fire box doors and checked each one no ash build up was seen..Vent pipe clear. I ran a jumper wire between the air switch wires and started the stove. It's been running for about an hour or so now. How can I tell if is the air switch that's the problem ? Burn pot was cleaned no blockage of air intake. Now above the heat tubes there is a opening on both sides for the exhaust to escape between the panels right ? How can you make sure there's no ash build up there blocking the air flow ?

Did you check the area at the top of your firebox by using a small hammer against the fire box wall and taping ETA: with your firebox doors (ash trap covers open).

To check that switch properly requires special equipment. Do not run that stove with that switch bypassed. You mentioned a dirty burn that switch is saying it is worse than you think.

If you have an ohmmeter you can check that the switch opens and closes and that is about it. They fail but it is rare.

If your stove's grill work that lets air into the shell is covered in dust and such it is possible that your combustion blower is over heating and thermal cycling.

Make sure the grill work is clean and that the cooling fan on the blower motor is free of all buildup.

 

[Terry B]

Did you check the area at the top of your firebox by using a small hammer against the fire box wall and taping ETA: with your firebox doors (ash trap covers open).

To check that switch properly requires special equipment. Do not run that stove with that switch bypassed. You mentioned a dirty burn that switch is saying it is worse than you think.

If you have an ohmmeter you can check that the switch opens and closes and that is about it. They fail but it is rare.

If your stove's grill work that lets air into the shell is covered in dust and such it is possible that your combustion blower is over heating and thermal cycling.

Make sure the grill work is clean and that the cooling fan on the blower motor is free of all buildup.

I reopen the firebox doors and tapped the outside and inside side panels plus used a screwdriver and scraped around above the heat tubes. Got loads of ash from the control panel side of the stove. Cleaned it out and took the jumper off and hooked the air switch back up and bingo ! She's running like a new one...Lot's of fly ash and great flame .....Thank you so much for the help ! You very well could have saved me a lot of money replacing parts I didn't need.
Thanks again for the help !

 

[SmokeyTheBear]

I reopen the firebox doors and tapped the outside and inside side panels plus used a screwdriver and scraped around above the heat tubes. Got loads of ash from the control panel side of the stove. Cleaned it out and took the jumper off and hooked the air switch back up and bingo ! She's running like a new one...Lot's of fly ash and great flame .....Thank you so much for the help ! You very well could have saved me a lot of money replacing parts I didn't need.
Thanks again for the help !

Now do yourself a favor if the stove vent is easy to get to from the outside get an electric leaf blower with vacuum attachment and place the attachment over the vent and turn it on and let it run. Be certain to keep the outlet of the leaf blower pointed away from anything you don't want covered in ash. You likely still have ash in the works.

I'm glad you are back up and running.

 

[kinglew]

I open all the all fire box doors and checked each one no ash build up was seen..Vent pipe clear. I ran a jumper wire between the air switch wires and started the stove. It's been running for about an hour or so now. How can I tell if is the air switch that's the problem ? Burn pot was cleaned no blockage of air intake. Now above the heat tubes there is a opening on both sides for the exhaust to escape between the panels right ? How can you make sure there's no ash build up there blocking the air flow ?

have the same problem with breckwell 2700 can you tell more detail how you clean out the blockage