Pioneer Lopi Pellet stove not working.

[Dubs]

Hi everyone, I would appreciate any help. My Lopi pellet stove is not working. It is faulting within less then a minute when I turn it on. The auger is working fine, the thing that heats up is getting red hot but it continues to fault. I have cleaned it out, including taking off the motor on the left side and shop vacuuming inside it out. Looks like the air flow might not be working properly, I don't think air is getting under the pellets where it is being lit. But I am not an expert on this at all.

I also tried unplugging it to reset the circuit board, didn't work.

I thank you very much in advance, I have two babies and I am very worried what happens if I can't get it working.

 

[pell it]

Not familiar with your exact stove, when was the last complete cleaning including all hidden ash traps and venting? Does the exhaust blower fan come on at start up? Do the pellets ignite or just smolder?

 

[smwilliamson]

Is the orange and gray loop jumper loose on the back of the control board?

 

[Dubs]

Is the orange and gray loop jumper loose on the back of the control board?

By control board, do you mean circuit board? I looked on the circuit board and didn't see anything loose.

 

[Dubs]

Not familiar with your exact stove, when was the last complete cleaning including all hidden ash traps and venting? Does the exhaust blower fan come on at start up? Do the pellets ignite or just smolder?

I just did a complete cleaning and the blower fan does come on.

 

[smwilliamson]

The board that Travis uses has reporting functions via the four wire molex on the back of the circuit board, directly adjacent to the larger 8 wire molex for the components. If the smaller molex has just two loops that are contained, like an orange wire and a gray wire that just loop back to the same molex (looks like a jumper) then the board has so reporting per se, cause the jumper creates continuous continuity. If you have this jumper and are getting errors then either the board is bad or the jumper is loose.

If the jumper doesn't exist, then the gray wires will loop out through the vac switch and the orange wires will loop out through the high limits. I'm guessing you have the reporting loops through the switches and that the nipple on the vac hose is clogged and therefore the vac switch is not closing at start up. Check it out.

Jumper loop