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The stove won't self ignite. Everything works fine if I light it with fluid, but the igniter just does not fire. Stoves fine, fuse is fine, etc. I replaced the igniter and it still does not work. Any ideas?
Pull the burnpot away and fire up the stove, see if the igniter is getting hot. If it is then it is probably a burnpot positioning problem. If the igniter isn't getting hot in the stove, check the wires going to the igniter and make sure that they are ok and probably do a resistance check on the igniter. Should be about 60ish Ohms if I remember right. If everything else checks out then you probably have a bad board.
What pellets are you burning? I went through the same thing. My ignitor just simply will NOT light enegex americans I got last season. I bought a whole new ignitor and it turned out to be a junk pellet with no flash point.