Hi-
My Quadrafire Castile insert has been shutting down after several hours of running. This only seemed to have started after switching from hardwood pellets to softwoods pellets (done just yesterday). The softwood seems to burn a bit hotter so I'm wondering if the stove may be over-firing or burning too hot and some sensor is shutting it down.
Resetting the stove and/or unplugging/plugging it back in does not seem to have any effect; it just stays in shut down mode
Just now, I let it sit for 10 minutes or so (stove thermo says it dropped about 50 degrees, from about 400f to 350f) and then threw a handful of pellets into the pot and viola, it started up again - dropping pellets as normal.
Is it possible that the stove is running too hot and something is tripping to shut it down? If this is the case, is there any fix (for example, if I adjust the feed gate so it doesn't drop as many pellets thus making the flame a bit smaller)?
Thanks for any help!
My Quadrafire Castile insert has been shutting down after several hours of running. This only seemed to have started after switching from hardwood pellets to softwoods pellets (done just yesterday). The softwood seems to burn a bit hotter so I'm wondering if the stove may be over-firing or burning too hot and some sensor is shutting it down.
Resetting the stove and/or unplugging/plugging it back in does not seem to have any effect; it just stays in shut down mode
Just now, I let it sit for 10 minutes or so (stove thermo says it dropped about 50 degrees, from about 400f to 350f) and then threw a handful of pellets into the pot and viola, it started up again - dropping pellets as normal.
Is it possible that the stove is running too hot and something is tripping to shut it down? If this is the case, is there any fix (for example, if I adjust the feed gate so it doesn't drop as many pellets thus making the flame a bit smaller)?
Thanks for any help!
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