I needed to get a few pellet stoves for a place I just got and I went with the 25PDVC because they are plentiful and seem to be quite robust for the most part. The one complaint is the ignition system on these. They are not reliable even on their best days.
I know the theory is that the igniter gets hot and then air passes through the tube, which is not superheated, contacts the pellets and they ignite. Well, that hardly happens on any of the stoves I have. I have cleaned and gone through the maintenance. Maybe I have old igniters, but still the system is quite flawed as I've even hooked up a long hose to the air inlet of the igniter tube and blown air through it to expedite the process as a test and while it helped a little it was still a failure in my opinion. Now if I were to set a pellet in the igniter hole and throw a few pellets on top of it, it will ignite with a few minutes. Direct contact works fantastically.
Why not simply make the igniter hole on the burn pot side just a little larger and poke the igniter through a mm or two?
What about an igniter like the ones in the quadrafire setups?
Any input would be awesome. I'm more than happy to try some stuff out and fabricate something to get this to be reliable and make some good posts/documentation on it for others.
Let me know what you guys have!
I know the theory is that the igniter gets hot and then air passes through the tube, which is not superheated, contacts the pellets and they ignite. Well, that hardly happens on any of the stoves I have. I have cleaned and gone through the maintenance. Maybe I have old igniters, but still the system is quite flawed as I've even hooked up a long hose to the air inlet of the igniter tube and blown air through it to expedite the process as a test and while it helped a little it was still a failure in my opinion. Now if I were to set a pellet in the igniter hole and throw a few pellets on top of it, it will ignite with a few minutes. Direct contact works fantastically.
Why not simply make the igniter hole on the burn pot side just a little larger and poke the igniter through a mm or two?
What about an igniter like the ones in the quadrafire setups?
Any input would be awesome. I'm more than happy to try some stuff out and fabricate something to get this to be reliable and make some good posts/documentation on it for others.
Let me know what you guys have!