My old breckwell won’t drop pellets and hasn’t for awhile, I was messing with it today and noticed that the fuse type of deal was broke off the back. Could that be my problem? It still has the wires hooked to it but it’s not touching the back of the stove like it was before. If that’s not it any other suggestions? I have to manually feed it for about 30 or so minutes and then something will click in the back of the stove and it will drop pellets by itself. Oh and after turning it off the fan will keep going on and on until I unplug it from the wall. It use to shut itself off after it cooled down thanks for any help
Breckwell p23fs not dropping pellets
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Sorry I thought I put the model number my bad. It’s a Breckwell p23fs not sure on the year but it’s quite old. My grandpa had it for since like 1999 or 2000
if the fuse on the back of the stove fell off it may have grounded out and popped something on the board. My first thought is you have a control board failure and a snap disk that is bad. Looks like it uses the same control board as my stove and when the board was bad it did a few strange things
We bought a house built in 1994 and has a Breckwell P24i old wood pellet stove. It worked for about 3 years but has all of a sudden stopped auto feeding pellets.
Don’t suspect wiring issue as it has been working. We’ve replaced the vacuum hose and the pressure air switch. It will get hit with manual feeding but fire will go out once we stop pressing manual feed button. Blower works and stays in until we turn it off.
The green light is on. Does not have a way to give codes. Believe it’s from 90’s. Don’t have a manual. All ash trays have been cleaned. Any suggestions? Where do we find the fuses? Would it be auger motor? If green light is in- could it still be control board? Don’t think there is a way to reset air switch- no red button.
Any help or guidance would be awesome!
Thanks!
Don’t suspect wiring issue as it has been working. We’ve replaced the vacuum hose and the pressure air switch. It will get hit with manual feeding but fire will go out once we stop pressing manual feed button. Blower works and stays in until we turn it off.
The green light is on. Does not have a way to give codes. Believe it’s from 90’s. Don’t have a manual. All ash trays have been cleaned. Any suggestions? Where do we find the fuses? Would it be auger motor? If green light is in- could it still be control board? Don’t think there is a way to reset air switch- no red button.
Any help or guidance would be awesome!
Thanks!
When you start the stove does the auger feed pellets to the burn pot?
Does the fire start then burn for about 20 min and goes out with no more pellets being fed?
Check proof of fire disc.
OR
Does it not feed any pellets at all?
Jump vac switch Feed/no feed?
Do dollar bill test on the door and ash pan gaskets
Does it pull out easily or with some resistance?
Does the fire start then burn for about 20 min and goes out with no more pellets being fed?
Check proof of fire disc.
OR
Does it not feed any pellets at all?
Jump vac switch Feed/no feed?
Do dollar bill test on the door and ash pan gaskets
Does it pull out easily or with some resistance?
Thank you for your help! When starting the stove- it does not feed the pellets. We have to hold the manual button down to collect them to start a fire.
Yep! It’ll burn between 10-20 mins or until all the pellets that we manually fed it have burned. Then the fire will slowly go out by itself.
It stopped feeding any pellets at all.
I just did the dollar bill test and there is resistance on 3 sides but I can easily pull it right out on hinge side. (Included pic of hinge side of door that fails dollar bill test)
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That looks like our next project to replace the gasket around the door.
We tried a brand new vacuum/ pressure switch without a change. No luck getting pellets to feed. We’ve tried to disconnect the stove to pull it out but can’t get the chimney pipe apart from the stove so been having to crawl behind the stove in the small space.
Thanks again for taking the time to help.
Yep! It’ll burn between 10-20 mins or until all the pellets that we manually fed it have burned. Then the fire will slowly go out by itself.
It stopped feeding any pellets at all.
I just did the dollar bill test and there is resistance on 3 sides but I can easily pull it right out on hinge side. (Included pic of hinge side of door that fails dollar bill test)
That looks like our next project to replace the gasket around the door.
We tried a brand new vacuum/ pressure switch without a change. No luck getting pellets to feed. We’ve tried to disconnect the stove to pull it out but can’t get the chimney pipe apart from the stove so been having to crawl behind the stove in the small space.
Thanks again for taking the time to help.
Im betting the stove is plugged from the combustion blower up the pipe. It will have to be removed from stove and cleaned .
I think you just gave us the answer as Ssyko said the chimney is most likely plugged with ash
you will have to get it apart and clean it.
If the combustion fan can not move enough air out of the stove you can not produce a vacuum
which is needed for the auger motor and auger to feed pellets
you will have to get it apart and clean it.
If the combustion fan can not move enough air out of the stove you can not produce a vacuum
which is needed for the auger motor and auger to feed pellets
We are gonna tackle this and just bc I like knowing the end result and find it sometimes- I will post later to update if we can get it running. Thank you for help and suggestions!
I would just take the door off and turn the door hinge in 1 turn to tighten up that side., i found changing gaskets a real PIA and ended up doing mine several times before i got the proper tension. May be different with that stove but my stove i have 3 min i think before it will shut down because of no vacuum and it will still feed until it shuts down, This way if you have to you can open the door to manually light or something.
That’s another good idea and area to look into. Thank you for that suggestion-will try that!
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