Hi all,
New to board and looking for some suggestions to my recent problem. My wife started the stove up the other night and smelled smoke worse than normal during start up (had a small smoke leak on the pipe during start up prior to draft - now corrected with hi-temp rtv). she got out of bed and heard a loud 'metalic pop' she hit the off button on the controls and it completely turned off. No blower motor or exhaust fan operation like during the normal cool down phase.....enter fire dept to clear the house of hazards. Anyway I got home a couple days later and tested the stove out with no problems a couple of times - normal start up, normal turning on of vent fan and room fan etc. Well I brought here downstairs to show here that its working fine yesterday and during the start up the exhaust fan went through its normal 'on' phase during start up, and prior to the room fan operation, the exhaust fan went into its normal operation of pulsing on/off on/off. The room fan didnt kick on and after a few mins I could feel the stove getting hot an after a few mins of the room fan not kicking on I hit the off button and the stove shut off completely, no cool down phase or anything. I hit the on button again and the exhaust fan started pulsing again but still no room fan. I then shut it off again and when I did the second time the room fan kicked on and the normal cool down phase started. After It cooled completely I tried it again and this time it worked. I clean the ash and the burn pot/inside the burn box every two to three days, but am I missing something that prevents the proper operation of the stove?
Also, my wife thinks that the room fan blower is getting louder (I dont notice it cause Im always in the room and if its getting louder its doing it slowly so I dont notice it, not a sudden issue of getting louder). The fan does have a considerable noise to it but I thought that when we first bought it.
Stove was purchased this fall and was manufactured early 2010.
Any help would be appreciated.
Todd
New to board and looking for some suggestions to my recent problem. My wife started the stove up the other night and smelled smoke worse than normal during start up (had a small smoke leak on the pipe during start up prior to draft - now corrected with hi-temp rtv). she got out of bed and heard a loud 'metalic pop' she hit the off button on the controls and it completely turned off. No blower motor or exhaust fan operation like during the normal cool down phase.....enter fire dept to clear the house of hazards. Anyway I got home a couple days later and tested the stove out with no problems a couple of times - normal start up, normal turning on of vent fan and room fan etc. Well I brought here downstairs to show here that its working fine yesterday and during the start up the exhaust fan went through its normal 'on' phase during start up, and prior to the room fan operation, the exhaust fan went into its normal operation of pulsing on/off on/off. The room fan didnt kick on and after a few mins I could feel the stove getting hot an after a few mins of the room fan not kicking on I hit the off button and the stove shut off completely, no cool down phase or anything. I hit the on button again and the exhaust fan started pulsing again but still no room fan. I then shut it off again and when I did the second time the room fan kicked on and the normal cool down phase started. After It cooled completely I tried it again and this time it worked. I clean the ash and the burn pot/inside the burn box every two to three days, but am I missing something that prevents the proper operation of the stove?
Also, my wife thinks that the room fan blower is getting louder (I dont notice it cause Im always in the room and if its getting louder its doing it slowly so I dont notice it, not a sudden issue of getting louder). The fan does have a considerable noise to it but I thought that when we first bought it.
Stove was purchased this fall and was manufactured early 2010.
Any help would be appreciated.
Todd