I put a new auger motor and control board in my stove, the motor quit working within 30 minutes. Thought, well what you get buying from Amazon. ordered an OEM motor, same result. I did just change the controller, but I'm showing 110 volts to the motor. Any ideas would be much appreciated.
Quadrafire Santa Fe auger motors burning out
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So did the motor burn up or is it just not turning? I should think it's pretty rare for a new motor to burn up that quickly unless there's something really sending the voltage to it.
The voltage was 110 AC. I didn't try to run the old motor with it not connected to the auger. I'll do that and see what happens
The old motor quit running at times. Had voltage going to it. I'm going to test the motors without connecting to the auger.
Connected the old motor without the auger, it works. When I had the assembly out the auger turned freely with no resistance. I cleaned out the pellets and see nothing amiss. I might try cherry pits and see what happens
jzm2cc
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Suspect an intermittent functioning vacuum disk. Try bypassing switch and see if one of your "bad" auger motors work ok.
I pullled the auger assembly out and saw pellet debris has jammed the auger I thought I cleaned out the feed area, but on closer inspection there was still pellets and pellet debris in the feed area. It's cleaned out now and am running cherry pit pellets. Working fine.
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