Totally stumped at whats going on
Background :
Stove has been cleaned after every shut down max of 3 days
Exhaust blower was cleaned 3-6-19 for what could be the only time its been done
Pellets are stored inside 4 or so feet away from the stove and are dry
Pellets are lignetics bought from the local Ace Hardware ( been used before without problems )
I have no idea what could be happening with my stove, for the past 2 and a half weeks I have been having burning problems. On startup the stoves operates normally. Once a couple of hours pass the flame becomes very lazy and the burn pot is full of various stages of new fresh pellets, burning, glowing hard pellets, and ash shells. After this happens the stove continues to feed pellets which causes an overflow of the above mentioned pellets to fall into the ash tray and catch fire, along with what I can best describe as acetylene like ash tat covers the inside of the stove and on the heat tubes ( very fine and delicate ).After the glowing pellets start to form is when the problems begin, I have to open the stove door and manually use a poker tool to break it up but that only buys me a couple of hours of more burn time before the process has to be repeated or the stove turned off so I can sleep without having to worry about burning the house down.
The ash that is leftover once it has cooled down is not like the normal ash but is clumpy and hard to remove sometimes. I have also seen the pellet grate and burn pot have seen creosote build up on the bottom of the grate were the pellets sit and on the sides of the burn pot were the grate slides in.
Yesterday I removed the exhaust/combustion fan and gave a through cleaning which it needed years ago ( Stove was bought used only have owned for 3 1/2 months ). The fire box was vacuumed out, along with under the little tray that covers the bottom of the stove under were the ash pan is, misc nooks and crannies were also cleaned of fine light tan colored ash that had built up.
Before these problems the stove has worked perfectly without as much as a hiccup, at this point I'm dumbfounded as to what could be the problem. Can anyone help pin point the problem or experienced problems like this before. Sorry for the long post but I tried to give as much information as I can.
Thanks in advance,
John
Background :
Stove has been cleaned after every shut down max of 3 days
Exhaust blower was cleaned 3-6-19 for what could be the only time its been done
Pellets are stored inside 4 or so feet away from the stove and are dry
Pellets are lignetics bought from the local Ace Hardware ( been used before without problems )
I have no idea what could be happening with my stove, for the past 2 and a half weeks I have been having burning problems. On startup the stoves operates normally. Once a couple of hours pass the flame becomes very lazy and the burn pot is full of various stages of new fresh pellets, burning, glowing hard pellets, and ash shells. After this happens the stove continues to feed pellets which causes an overflow of the above mentioned pellets to fall into the ash tray and catch fire, along with what I can best describe as acetylene like ash tat covers the inside of the stove and on the heat tubes ( very fine and delicate ).After the glowing pellets start to form is when the problems begin, I have to open the stove door and manually use a poker tool to break it up but that only buys me a couple of hours of more burn time before the process has to be repeated or the stove turned off so I can sleep without having to worry about burning the house down.
The ash that is leftover once it has cooled down is not like the normal ash but is clumpy and hard to remove sometimes. I have also seen the pellet grate and burn pot have seen creosote build up on the bottom of the grate were the pellets sit and on the sides of the burn pot were the grate slides in.
Yesterday I removed the exhaust/combustion fan and gave a through cleaning which it needed years ago ( Stove was bought used only have owned for 3 1/2 months ). The fire box was vacuumed out, along with under the little tray that covers the bottom of the stove under were the ash pan is, misc nooks and crannies were also cleaned of fine light tan colored ash that had built up.
Before these problems the stove has worked perfectly without as much as a hiccup, at this point I'm dumbfounded as to what could be the problem. Can anyone help pin point the problem or experienced problems like this before. Sorry for the long post but I tried to give as much information as I can.
Thanks in advance,
John
