Quadrafire CB 1200 turns off during start up.

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Spaz

Minister of Fire
May 3, 2024
581
Nova Scotia
Title pretty well says it all. I started it up, it light up and turned itself off before it got going. This happened also about 2 months ago. I though it was the remote, got a new one. Worked fine until today. The remote was still on, just the stove shut off. It has been sitting for a day. Power light was off. It acted like it had reached its set temperature. Stopped dumping pellets etc. It was cleaned the day before and only ran 3 hours. I got a hold on my technician and was told it "probably missed a cycle". Any one experience this? Can't have it missing a cycle in the winter. I use it just to warm the house up in the mornings so I was up when it happened.

Update
I heated up the house to temp after restarting it. Turn it off, let it cool down and shut off
Gave it another hour and tried it again. Started no problem. Getting a tech in here is probably a 3 week wait, anything I can check in the mean time? I'm an amateur so can't do much. Oh I also cleaned it out again before I started it. Wasn't really dirty, just covering my bases.

Update
Warmed it up again no issues, so I guess I'll find out in the morning if it comes on during the night ( if necessary) or when I manually start it.
 
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So, by power light, assuming you mean red call for heat light? This stove knows either you're calling for heat, or not. If red call light is not coming on when remote is on, one of two things, the connection of the receiver to the t-stat terminals, or a flaky control board. It doesn't sound like the board. If it misses a cycle, could be pellets not filling burnpot at ignition, or if pellets are normal, the ignitor slit in front of burnpot could be blocked. Make sure the half moon underneath burnpot is fully closed, not jammed partly open etc.. The 1200CB is a great example of a keep it simple, very good workhorse stove. Good luck with her.
 
On mine it's orange, but yes the call for heat light. It had just started burning was dumping pellets and it powered off. Stopped dumping pellets like it had reached its set point which it hadn't. The remote was showing on as it was on manual because I started it with the Skytech remote. It didn't get far enough to turn the blower fan on though. It had almost gotten up to temperature to turn the blower on ( which is about 20 minutes, it got to 10 minutes) and powered down light off. Remote still was showing on. So it just shut off all by itself.
 
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