Hi all first post on this site seems like lotta helpful people. I bought my house with a whitfield wp4 pellet stove in the basement. Prior to I had never used one. My house is 1800sqf down and 1800 up. I live in Colorado and even when temps dip below zero my little stove can warm the house all by itself to the point if the temp is above 20 I have to turn the auger and damper down or it runs you out of the house.
I bought 1 ton of pellets last year and a few days in my auger would quit working, I could hear the motor try but the auger would not move. Some work with the shopvac and it would work again. Eventually I took the stove to a service store where they replaced the auger motor. At the store they ran the stove for 3 days straight without any problems and even commented on how well it worked even compared to their bigger, expensive models. I got the stove home and hooked back up and my first batch plugged the auger again. I didnt use it anymore last year and figured my pellets were bad as the service place had not had any issues and with spring right around the corner I figured Id deal with it this year. This last week the temp was -21 and -18 so I went to the same service center and purchased some of their pellets. Ran the stove 24 hours without incident. Today I reloaded the pellets for my wife and went to work. Less then 4 hours later my wife called and the stove had bound up once again and burned out. when I came home the tray was full of pellets as it must have broke loose after the fire was out. I started it without problem. 4 hours later the auger quit working again and I let it sit for 30 minutes and tried again without problems....long story but do the augers overheat and shut down? Is it the pellets again?? Im at a loss and as I dont know much about them I figured this was worth a shot.
BTW I Vaccume the stove out everyday including the auger shute when it empties.
I bought 1 ton of pellets last year and a few days in my auger would quit working, I could hear the motor try but the auger would not move. Some work with the shopvac and it would work again. Eventually I took the stove to a service store where they replaced the auger motor. At the store they ran the stove for 3 days straight without any problems and even commented on how well it worked even compared to their bigger, expensive models. I got the stove home and hooked back up and my first batch plugged the auger again. I didnt use it anymore last year and figured my pellets were bad as the service place had not had any issues and with spring right around the corner I figured Id deal with it this year. This last week the temp was -21 and -18 so I went to the same service center and purchased some of their pellets. Ran the stove 24 hours without incident. Today I reloaded the pellets for my wife and went to work. Less then 4 hours later my wife called and the stove had bound up once again and burned out. when I came home the tray was full of pellets as it must have broke loose after the fire was out. I started it without problem. 4 hours later the auger quit working again and I let it sit for 30 minutes and tried again without problems....long story but do the augers overheat and shut down? Is it the pellets again?? Im at a loss and as I dont know much about them I figured this was worth a shot.
BTW I Vaccume the stove out everyday including the auger shute when it empties.
