Piazzetta Sabrina problems

[Berkshireguy89]

I have a sabrina, stove is about a year and a half old. I bought my home with it in it and the previous owners just had it installed. This year was my first year with it and I'm ready to buy something else. I have had the dealer here to adjust parameters and clean it and I also clean it. The bearing went in the fan and now it's constantly not igniting. It will fill the pot with pellets and just beep. The pot is CLEAN and it does this.. Sometimes it even ignites and it is like a backdraft, makes a noticeable bang and you run into the basement and it filled with smoke and the flame is crazy in the stove. Shut it off, let it do its 10 minute " cleaning grate " cycle wait for it to cool open it up and the grate is CLEAN. I don't know if the ignitor is not working properly or the dealer has too much air flow going into it for ignition but I'm ready to lose it. Also I'm running vermont wood pellets. This is all hit or miss it will run a solid week or two without a issue at all then some days it's just a nightmare. I left this morning, checked the grate and scraped to see if it had any build up, it was clear and my wife called and said the pellet stove is beeping and over flowed again now it's 30 degrees out and it's off.

 

[Lake Girl]

Just wanted to make sure that you saw the Piazzetta thread on the main page of the pellet forum: https://www.hearth.com/talk/threads/piazzetta-pellets-stove-a-to-z-recommendations.147362/ Pascal is from Quebec and is a Piazzetta dealer. Lots of info to go through there to help understand your stove.

I am judging that the replacement is for the exhaust fan? Is it the appropriate replacement? Wired appropriately and all connections are secure? Surge protection on the stove?

What is your cleaning routine? When was the last time you cleaned the internal exhaust pathways, combustion fan, venting? My stove has to be cleaned every 1000 hours which works out to roughly after every ton burned. Do you ensure there is no ash build-up around the ignitor (air moves around ignitor into the burn pot to ignite the pellets)? Does it have an outside air kit? Is the intake outside clear? This may be important since the stove is located in the basement... furnace, dryer, radon units can effect air flow.

 

[Pelleting In NJ]

Sounds like you have a negative air pressure problem in the basement.

 

[Lake Girl]

Beyond cleaning, that's where I was heading with the OAK question...

 

[chken]

I have a sabrina, stove is about a year and a half old. I bought my home with it in it and the previous owners just had it installed. This year was my first year with it and I'm ready to buy something else. I have had the dealer here to adjust parameters and clean it and I also clean it. The bearing went in the fan and now it's constantly not igniting. It will fill the pot with pellets and just beep. The pot is CLEAN and it does this.. Sometimes it even ignites and it is like a backdraft, makes a noticeable bang and you run into the basement and it filled with smoke and the flame is crazy in the stove. Shut it off, let it do its 10 minute " cleaning grate " cycle wait for it to cool open it up and the grate is CLEAN. I don't know if the ignitor is not working properly or the dealer has too much air flow going into it for ignition but I'm ready to lose it. Also I'm running vermont wood pellets. This is all hit or miss it will run a solid week or two without a issue at all then some days it's just a nightmare. I left this morning, checked the grate and scraped to see if it had any build up, it was clear and my wife called and said the pellet stove is beeping and over flowed again now it's 30 degrees out and it's off.

Basement stoves, all stoves, are notably problematic due to air problems, which usually requires a close look at the vent setup.

When you say the dealer cleaned it and you cleaned it, you didn't state whether you cleaned the vent, nor did you state what your vent specs were, what size, how does it exit the house, etc. The venting is typically the issue in a basement install, NOT, the stove itself.

When the stove runs well, how's the weather? Is it windy? When the stove isn't running, how's the weather? Is it windy where the vent terminates?

The dealer needs to send over his best install guy who has experience with basement installs, who has the proper equipment to measure the pressure with a manometer, etc.

From what little we know, which is basically nothing, because all you did was rant, and tell us almost nothing about the problem, we know you have a problem, but you already seem done with the stove. The point is, just replacing the stove, will NOT solve your problem, since the problem is not likely your stove, but the venting situation.

 

[Pascal_Maertens]

please read and answer copy in a post and I will help you usually with in week most problem are solved. [email protected]

 

[Pascal_Maertens]

I have a sabrina, stove is about a year and a half old. I bought my home with it in it and the previous owners just had it installed. This year was my first year with it and I'm ready to buy something else. I have had the dealer here to adjust parameters and clean it and I also clean it. The bearing went in the fan and now it's constantly not igniting. It will fill the pot with pellets and just beep. The pot is CLEAN and it does this.. Sometimes it even ignites and it is like a backdraft, makes a noticeable bang and you run into the basement and it filled with smoke and the flame is crazy in the stove. Shut it off, let it do its 10 minute " cleaning grate " cycle wait for it to cool open it up and the grate is CLEAN. I don't know if the ignitor is not working properly or the dealer has too much air flow going into it for ignition but I'm ready to lose it. Also I'm running vermont wood pellets. This is all hit or miss it will run a solid week or two without a issue at all then some days it's just a nightmare. I left this morning, checked the grate and scraped to see if it had any build up, it was clear and my wife called and said the pellet stove is beeping and over flowed again now it's 30 degrees out and it's off.

I have not heard from you !? do you still have your stove ?