Hi guys. I've had this stove for years with not too many issues. I started it up this year as it's getting colder and it ran OK the first time. After the room reached the temperature and the thermostat told the stove to shut down, it started to shut down and started flashing the #2 light. I fired it up again the next night by pressing the on button and it worked, but same flashing 2 light while it was shutting down. I blew through the vacuum switch and is air supposed to go through the switch when you blow? I was only able to get air through it when I sucked on the hose. I could hear the flap open, but when I blew, I had resistance. I took the stove apart and cleaned it pretty well. Didn't find any major clogs. Didn't get too much out from behind the firebox wall. Put it all back together and when I went to fire it up, it starts to drop pellets, then shuts down with the flashing 2. I jumped the vacuum switch wires with a paperclip and it's working fine like that. Could it just be a bad vacuum switch? Am I risking running the stove with the switch bypassed? I don't have a lazy flame or anything else that seems to be an issue. Thanks.
