Hi forum,
Please help us, we're freezing!
I have a pleasant hearth ph50cabps pellet stove that uses the same control board as the quadrafire mt vernon E2.
I would like to use the mt vernon e2 control board to replace my dead ph50cabps board and need advice.
The ph50cabps never had a hard wired thermostat option and my reasoning is the mt vernon e2 board with a hard wired honeywell thermostat would be a much better board upgrade for my ph50cabps pellet stove.
AIthough the boards appear to be identical, I would guess the firmware would be different on the 2 boards, from what I see the ph50cabps uses a room temp probe but the mt vernon e2 uses a hard wired thermostat without a room temp probe. I also found a picture on the internet that shows the mt vernon e2 board has a red, orange and blue wire connected to the encoder press. header on the control board (next to the thermostat header). The ph50cabps does not have anything connected to the encoder press. header. What is the encoder press. header and what would i need to buy to get that part of the control board and wiring working?
If everything is doable I'd like to connect a honeywell hard wired thermostat to the 2 bottom wires of the mt vernon e2 boards ground and signal pins (is that correct?) and install it in my ph50cabps stove. What esle, other than the encoder press. wires and whatever it does do I need to complete the retrofit?
Almost forgot,
From what I've researched, both stoves use 2 rpm auger motors.
Please help, we're freezing
Jim
Please help us, we're freezing!
I have a pleasant hearth ph50cabps pellet stove that uses the same control board as the quadrafire mt vernon E2.
I would like to use the mt vernon e2 control board to replace my dead ph50cabps board and need advice.
The ph50cabps never had a hard wired thermostat option and my reasoning is the mt vernon e2 board with a hard wired honeywell thermostat would be a much better board upgrade for my ph50cabps pellet stove.
AIthough the boards appear to be identical, I would guess the firmware would be different on the 2 boards, from what I see the ph50cabps uses a room temp probe but the mt vernon e2 uses a hard wired thermostat without a room temp probe. I also found a picture on the internet that shows the mt vernon e2 board has a red, orange and blue wire connected to the encoder press. header on the control board (next to the thermostat header). The ph50cabps does not have anything connected to the encoder press. header. What is the encoder press. header and what would i need to buy to get that part of the control board and wiring working?
If everything is doable I'd like to connect a honeywell hard wired thermostat to the 2 bottom wires of the mt vernon e2 boards ground and signal pins (is that correct?) and install it in my ph50cabps stove. What esle, other than the encoder press. wires and whatever it does do I need to complete the retrofit?
Almost forgot,
From what I've researched, both stoves use 2 rpm auger motors.
Please help, we're freezing
Jim
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