Odd issue - Breckwell

[jstmarie]

I'm a pellet stove owner of about 5 or 6 years now. I have two, both Breckwell's; a P24 fireplace insert for the main house and a P4000 classic cast for the in-law apartment. I maintain my own stoves, including chimneys. I burned wood for a lot of years and decided to switch to pellet stove.

I've run my classic cast P4000 for about 3 years now. It has always run well with no issues. This season it began behaving oddly.

When the stove is first plugged in, both the combustion and the convection blowers turn on. I don't have to hit the on button as this happens automatically, which is very unusual. The stove starts a fire just fine and runs just fine. When the stove is turned off neither fan turns off and the stove never shuts down.

I replaced the POF switch in hopes it was stuck, but this did not change the behavior of the stove. I have verified it is in Manual mode.

At this point I'm thinking it is the controller, but at near $300 I'm loath to swap it out without exhausting all other possibilities, including perhaps repairing the controller if needed (I have a background in electronics and could probably hack my way through some soldering if needed).


Would greatly appreciate any help you can provide.

Thanks

 

[MountainSean]

Take one wire off the low limit switch. If it fires up when you plug it in you have a bad board.

 

[Bioburner]

Man it sucks when a company sells parts for more than 1 can buy the stoves used.

 

[jstmarie]

Any chance we can pinpoint the likely failure on the controller board?

 

[jstmarie]

Anybody have info on this controller that could help?