Quadra Fire CB 1200 let me tell you where I'm at with this stove and then ask a question

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AllenQFCB1200

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Oct 19, 2025
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Western Washington
Ok so first my pellet stove experience. In the distant past I had a some kind of a pellet stove very old in the basement at my old house. If was one of the ones that didn't even have auto-ignition. Moving forward I knew someone with a Whitfield pellet stove who was of limited mobility until 2010. So I know about snap disks, what it takes thoroughly clean one ect.

Moving forward. I just had to start life over again last spring just me and my dog and a handful of belongings. This house had a woodstove in it, but it was beyond shot and I managed to find a nice used Quadra-Fire CB 1200 for free. Well I mean nice as in it needs work and I can afford it Lol.

So of course during the summer I took apart what needed to be taken apart to to do a proper deep cleaning and replaced a number of gaskets like the ash tray gasket because it was shot. I had trouble with the snap disk for the convection fan so bought a new one of those and then just about a week ago I had a massive over load of pellets in the pot.

This coincided with me changing brands of pellets so I thought maybe that and I discovered the lower bolt in the feed rate adjustment slider was missing. So this last week I have spent an enormous amount of time trying to dial in the feed rate which is just not happening. Then I observed that it was just being really erratic. Feed a ton of pellets then stop for a bit flame dies down low then feed a bunch more and get a big huge flame. Medium was the worst, low was some what function as was high, but it seemed like low was to low and high was to high. Then I remember that when I picked up the stove they also gave me a "working" spare control board. Opening up the box I found the original 2006 control board. I installed that and now finally the feed rates seem some what human and normalish. The one I removed from the stove was a Home & Hearth brand from 2019. Wondering what you all think of that brand, or for that matter what a good replacement brand is. I have no idea if I'll discover the original control board is just fine or has some other random issue so I may buy another. Open to advise there, do the control boards often last 20 years?

Finally my flame. So I'm probably overthinking it at this point, no I know I'm overthinking it, but I tend to do that and I'm hoping since I have little experiance with this brand of stove maybe ya'll can tell me if this is normal or not. So I did read the manual and I know wait 15 minutes between adjustments and adjust the flame on high to around 4 - 6" I can kind of get that but it's not at all that stable, I probably have a flame that is averaging that length but will get a few inches higher and lower occasionally. Normal you think?
Medium I probably average around a 2" flame and on low it just peaks above the pot occasionally. Normal you think?

I'm about half temped to up load a video of the high setting at least, and maybe low so ya'll can get a visual.

But since I also have an ignitor that has decided to croak I'm going to go replace that now.
So basically looking for input on my flame discriptions, plus the control board, what's a typical life expectancy and a good replacement brand.

Thanks, and I don't plan to just take any info posted and run. Looks like an interesting forum and I'm pretty sure I'll be able to contribute as time goes on.
 
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