Hi everyone,
Thank you in advance for all the help you've given my husband and I over the past two years. Yes, we've been trolling, and soaking up all your knowledge. And thank you for that.
We have a Harman Accentra 2, and have been fiddling with it for 6 hours so far today, and feel like we've tried EVERYTHING possible, and its still not working properly. We keep the stove super clean (thanks to your advice!). The stove came with our house when we bought it 3 years ago, and are now on our 3rd winter heating with the harman, and heat exclusively with it (burned 4 tons our first year, only 3 the second year).
Here is the problem... we went away for the weekend, so the stove burned through all the pellets (we use our oil furnace as back up while on vacation). When we got back, we tried to start the stove back up, and the distribution blower would not start up. It was late at night, figured we'd just mess with it in the morning. Morning came, and my husband cleaned everything he could in the stove, removed the distribution blower and checked it out. Replaced the distribution blower, and tried out the stove. This time (on test mode), the blower worked, but the auger did not. We went through check list after check list (scouring this forum) and ended up bypassing the vac sensor switch, which got the auger motor turning. We bought a new vac sensor switch (thinking the old one was bad) and replaced it. Still nothing. Please help! What's next?
We have not yet removed the auger motor, housing and auger itself, we're a bit intimidated by this, and not really sure if this would be the problem anyway. We have also considered the possibility that there is some type of air leak, and vacuum seal is not there, but don't know how to troubleshoot this. Thank you.
Thank you in advance for all the help you've given my husband and I over the past two years. Yes, we've been trolling, and soaking up all your knowledge. And thank you for that.
We have a Harman Accentra 2, and have been fiddling with it for 6 hours so far today, and feel like we've tried EVERYTHING possible, and its still not working properly. We keep the stove super clean (thanks to your advice!). The stove came with our house when we bought it 3 years ago, and are now on our 3rd winter heating with the harman, and heat exclusively with it (burned 4 tons our first year, only 3 the second year).
Here is the problem... we went away for the weekend, so the stove burned through all the pellets (we use our oil furnace as back up while on vacation). When we got back, we tried to start the stove back up, and the distribution blower would not start up. It was late at night, figured we'd just mess with it in the morning. Morning came, and my husband cleaned everything he could in the stove, removed the distribution blower and checked it out. Replaced the distribution blower, and tried out the stove. This time (on test mode), the blower worked, but the auger did not. We went through check list after check list (scouring this forum) and ended up bypassing the vac sensor switch, which got the auger motor turning. We bought a new vac sensor switch (thinking the old one was bad) and replaced it. Still nothing. Please help! What's next?
We have not yet removed the auger motor, housing and auger itself, we're a bit intimidated by this, and not really sure if this would be the problem anyway. We have also considered the possibility that there is some type of air leak, and vacuum seal is not there, but don't know how to troubleshoot this. Thank you.