I have had my pelpro 130 pellet stove for 2 days and started acting up 7 hours after installation turn he dial to 5 it drops pellets ignites and goes out immediately
Pelpro 130 pellet stove won't stay lit
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Hi Tami and welcome. We are going to need a little more info in order to help you.
1. Did you read the manual and following the trouble shooting section on fire lights and then goes out? See below.
2. Describe the venting system you are using and what pellets are you using.
3. If you have been burning the stove for seven hours I assume you have just recently added another bag of pellets. If so make sure the hopper is closed correctly so that the hopper switch is working.
4. Did you install the stove or was it done by a dealer?
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Followed the troubleshooting
1. Fire pot was just cleaned so not dirty
2.venting was not plugged or dirty
3.exhaust probe is in place and followed wire to the connectors and all is good and is plugged into the control board
4 . I changed fuse just to make sure that wasn't it
The venting system is 3inch coming from the back of the stove straight outside to a pipe that is horizontal 4ft that was installed by a retired contractor that is a close friend.
The pellets I am using are propellets from our local farm supply which our pellet stove holds 3 of at 40 lbs each so I haven't had to fill it .
Hope this helps because I sure could use some at this point.
alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
If you cleaned the burn pot by removing it did you get it sitting back in the stove correctly ? Also are there any blinking codes at the control panel when the stove shuts down ?
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Burn pot is correct double checked that to make sure. Yes one the light it is red and blinking one time followed the troubleshooting guide and cleaned everything and started over starting it up and does the same thing . Have adjusted the trim as well still no luck.
alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
Looking closely at the burn pot are the holes in it all clear of carbon build up ?
Bioburner
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Hate to tell you but maybe something stuck in the auger flights? Never know what may have been dropped in the hopper and has finally bound up enough to limit the pellet feed. Sometimes there is objects in the feed while bagging, lost fingers(well they never did find his finger), string, wood chunks and plastic bits to name a few things found and then there is the stuff young ones have lost while playing.
So I would pull and suck out everything and see if anything is choking the auger flights.
So I would pull and suck out everything and see if anything is choking the auger flights.
Took the tool and cleaned out all the hole really nothing but a little dusting in them so that's good to
Got
that all cleaned out took it all apart and vacuumed out that was it i think.( no we didn't find a finger)We started the stove back up what really seems odd is the convection fan comes on but doesn't run on high like it would if you were shutting it down its more of a low and slow so the fire seems very large now we have adjusted the trim to the negative side and it sure doesn't seem to help is this normal?
alternativeheat
Minister of Fire
Tami, I'm not sure how the controls work on your Pelpro but most stoves have some means of adjusting the pellet feed rate and the air flow. By when you say "Trim", I assume the Trim control is adjusting one of those two items. The other probably needs attention. The air control on some stoves is a mechanical adjustment, on others it's electronic and that controls combustion by varying the combustion fan speed. I don't know which your stove has but it sounds like you need to get to the bottom of both pellet feed rate and air speed.
Additionally, in some stoves, with certain pellets, you can get what is called bridging. This basically boils down to a log jam of pellets as they drop into the auger from the hopper. So you don't have to have a physical blockage from a foreign object but the pellets themselves do the restriction. Just saying, you may have dislodged a pellet jam when you cleaned the hopper and not found anything that did not belong in there.. Some folks come to know this about their particular stove and pellet combo and change something up ( usually pellets with many long pieces or irregular sizing) or else go straight to dislodging by any number of different ways.
But it sounds like where you are at now is that the stove is running at last ! You may just need to learn to set it up right with what ever kind of controls it has. I have not read the manual on it myself.
Additionally, in some stoves, with certain pellets, you can get what is called bridging. This basically boils down to a log jam of pellets as they drop into the auger from the hopper. So you don't have to have a physical blockage from a foreign object but the pellets themselves do the restriction. Just saying, you may have dislodged a pellet jam when you cleaned the hopper and not found anything that did not belong in there.. Some folks come to know this about their particular stove and pellet combo and change something up ( usually pellets with many long pieces or irregular sizing) or else go straight to dislodging by any number of different ways.
But it sounds like where you are at now is that the stove is running at last ! You may just need to learn to set it up right with what ever kind of controls it has. I have not read the manual on it myself.
Ok so that didn't last long I started the pellet stove 3 hours ago and it ran fine till right now . I was running it on low again pellets quit feeding and the fire went out the light on the stove by running it on low is ember color and was still ember when the fire went out never went into shut down mode which it should not because I am running it in a continuous setting so why would the fire go out?
now also I try to start it back up it drops pellets they light and they immediately go back out but the controls thinks its still running and its not.
Harvey Schneider
Minister of Fire
Did it burn up all of the pellets or did the pellets stop burning?
The first is not enough fuel, and the second is not enough air.
Harvey Schneider
Minister of Fire
Did it burn up all of the pellets or did the pellets stop burning?
The first is not enough fuel, and the second is not enough air.
If the fire is going to embers and then burning out without flame, it is most likely that there isn't enough air. When that happens, most often, the proof of fire temperature is not maintained. The stove should then stop feeding pellets and go into shutdown mode (generic behavior).
Possible causes are:
- air bypassing the firepot (high probability)
- door leak (some air leaks are not enough to trip the vac sensor but enough to compromise burn)
- blower gasket leak
- The list is long...
Ok thanks a lot will check all of these . Have anyone heard of the door leak test of: shutting a dollar bill in the door and if you can remove the dollar bill then the gasket needs replaced ?or is this just a fluke
It's real. The bill should be difficult to pull out but not impossible to pull out.
Does your stove have a "fan speed trim" ?
I have a PelPro and I was screwing with the "fan speed" and it controls the exhaust fan - too slow and it will stop feeding pellets.....
Might light fine for a while but as the stove gets hot it seems to require more fan speed or the pellets stop feeding....that was my case.
I have a PelPro and I was screwing with the "fan speed" and it controls the exhaust fan - too slow and it will stop feeding pellets.....
Might light fine for a while but as the stove gets hot it seems to require more fan speed or the pellets stop feeding....that was my case.
It
You nailed it that's exactly what it's doing so to make the fan speed faster ? I'm afraid I'm going the wrong way
Just so I'm getting this right I adjust the trim to the left for a faster exhaust?
Just curious what works best for your pellet burner when it comes to the trim? I know that we are living in different places so its going to very
Maybe too much draft? I would put all the trim screws in the middle of their adjustments to start....then adjust the draft stick
My PelPro isn't the same model... It has 3 trims I can adjust and a draft stick that I can pull or push to adjust the flame.
I run the fan trim at about 1/3 it's full speed
My PelPro isn't the same model... It has 3 trims I can adjust and a draft stick that I can pull or push to adjust the flame.
I run the fan trim at about 1/3 it's full speed
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