Englander pellet stove 25-Pdv hopper auger not turning

[cochrank]

Group,

Recently acquired one of these units at a good price. Cleaned it up and tested it (had to replace an exhaust fan bearing) and everything was working. Installed in and it ran for a night with no issues. Next day the fire went out. Didn't know why. Tried to start it again and found the hopper auger was not turning. I hooked the motor up to direct power and it turned so the motor isn't bad. Auger is free as well. I looked online and saw some others with the same issue so I did some investigating. I do not have a lid safety switch on this model (that I can see or wire trace) and I bypassed the vacuum switch. Still did not work. What I thought was funny though is that when you initially turn it on, it does turn but then stops and doesn't restart. Any thoghts?

 

[cochrank]

vac switch bypassed. Did you jump the hopper switch also. They run in series so you need to do both at the same time

This unit does not have a hopper switch. I confirmed this. No wires besides the vac switch (traced the wires). Funny thing is tonight I tried to see what was wrong again. Put a meter on the motor terminal leads and watched. When I first started it up you could see the motor was cycling (receiving power for short bursts) after the start up failed to start the fire it went into shut down mode and when I tried to restart again it did not cycle at all. Seems to only work in the begging after it has sat for a bit. What would make it stop cycling after it was cycling?

 

[Ssyko]

The control board & programming. I had one that in diagnostic mode everything tested good, go to start it and it failed. Changed the board and it ran real well

 

[cochrank]

The control board & programming. I had one that in diagnostic mode everything tested good, go to start it and it failed. Changed the board and it ran real well

So do they still sell control boards for this unit?

 

[Ssyko]

I dont believe so, but call englander stove works. They have outstanding customer support, maybe they can help

 

[ericofmaine]

Just for grins, have you tried swapping motors? You say its getting power in short bursts and for the upper auger, it should. I'd start with that before going down the rabbit hole of trying to find a new board that, at last check, Englander doesn't show as for sale anymore.

Eric