Greetings to all.
I’ve been lurking here on and off for a while looking for answers to all my pellet stove questions and have finally decided to register and unload, but not all at once.
I own a Breckwell P24I. I do not remember when I bought it but it was a long time ago. The serial number starts with ‘WH 94’ so 1994 seems about right, if that’s what the 94 signifies. It does not have an igniter. It might even be the last year Breckwell produced a non-igniter stove.
Since I’ve had this stove I have gone through four convection blowers and still have the original combustion blower, hard to believe and it scares me. My questions relate to the combustion blower.
I purchased a replacement combustion blower a few years ago thinking if the current one ever goes belly up I could just take the old one out and slap the new one in, just like I do with the convection blower, no so. The combustion blower I bought is the typical Whitfield-Breckwell combustion blower as seen below.
(broken link removed to http://cgi.ebay.com/Breckwell-Pellet-Exhaust-Motor-Blower-w-Housing-A-E-027-/160495734876?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255e4a905c)
My first question is in regards to the tube/port that is coming out from the exhaust end of the unit. If you scroll down the page listed above and look at the photo above the guy (Jason) crouching next to his stove this port is on the left hand side of the photo, next to ‘3 ½ inches’. My current combustion unit does not have this. What should I do with this port, leave it alone or block it off? What is it for?
My second question is what is the unit called that connects to the combustion blower exhaust end to the chimney tubing/pipe and where can I get one? One end is a rectangle that connects to the combustion blower and the other end is round that connects to the pipe/tubing that goes up the chimney.
Most people, I suppose, just use the old one (and I may have to) but if and when the current combustion blower bites the dust (always on the coldest day of the year) I do not want to cut the silicon off the old one and seal it to the new combustion blower. I have read here that removing that unit, whatever it is called, if it was sealed with silicon, and mine is, is a real PITA.
Thanks
I’ve been lurking here on and off for a while looking for answers to all my pellet stove questions and have finally decided to register and unload, but not all at once.
I own a Breckwell P24I. I do not remember when I bought it but it was a long time ago. The serial number starts with ‘WH 94’ so 1994 seems about right, if that’s what the 94 signifies. It does not have an igniter. It might even be the last year Breckwell produced a non-igniter stove.
Since I’ve had this stove I have gone through four convection blowers and still have the original combustion blower, hard to believe and it scares me. My questions relate to the combustion blower.
I purchased a replacement combustion blower a few years ago thinking if the current one ever goes belly up I could just take the old one out and slap the new one in, just like I do with the convection blower, no so. The combustion blower I bought is the typical Whitfield-Breckwell combustion blower as seen below.
(broken link removed to http://cgi.ebay.com/Breckwell-Pellet-Exhaust-Motor-Blower-w-Housing-A-E-027-/160495734876?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item255e4a905c)
My first question is in regards to the tube/port that is coming out from the exhaust end of the unit. If you scroll down the page listed above and look at the photo above the guy (Jason) crouching next to his stove this port is on the left hand side of the photo, next to ‘3 ½ inches’. My current combustion unit does not have this. What should I do with this port, leave it alone or block it off? What is it for?
My second question is what is the unit called that connects to the combustion blower exhaust end to the chimney tubing/pipe and where can I get one? One end is a rectangle that connects to the combustion blower and the other end is round that connects to the pipe/tubing that goes up the chimney.
Most people, I suppose, just use the old one (and I may have to) but if and when the current combustion blower bites the dust (always on the coldest day of the year) I do not want to cut the silicon off the old one and seal it to the new combustion blower. I have read here that removing that unit, whatever it is called, if it was sealed with silicon, and mine is, is a real PITA.
Thanks