Harman p61-2
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It maintained 74, so I've turned it down. Question now is does the temp go down, or is the temp controller messed up? I've turned it down to 5.5 and I'll find out soon enough. Better to be to hot then to cold. On 6 I'm maintained down to -2, so it's still not putting on max heat under the same conditions. I'll give it an hour and see what happens. Already froze a pipe. Not to happy if it happens again. Now I'm in trouble. At 5.5 got a 1 degree drop in 15 minutes. Very notable change in flames
So turned it back it 6 and turn the feed upto 5. Now it's barely increased if at all. Almost goes out. Control board issues it seems. Going to mess around with dial to see if it will even maintain this. Got a decent flame back feed on 5 heat on 6. Not going to touch it there's definitely an issue here. Lucky enough I already have a technician coming out to replace the board early next week. Tonight is the -7 experience. Get back to you as the day progresses. That flame faded, now at 6.5 and it's just blaring. So I've found a good heat spot. At least some decent heat. Now that I have it I'll slowly nudge it down as the day goes on. So control board messed up what do you think? I'm going to assume the heat control vr is buggered so I'll be dialing back the feed rate but it's humping now.
So turned it back it 6 and turn the feed upto 5. Now it's barely increased if at all. Almost goes out. Control board issues it seems. Going to mess around with dial to see if it will even maintain this. Got a decent flame back feed on 5 heat on 6. Not going to touch it there's definitely an issue here. Lucky enough I already have a technician coming out to replace the board early next week. Tonight is the -7 experience. Get back to you as the day progresses. That flame faded, now at 6.5 and it's just blaring. So I've found a good heat spot. At least some decent heat. Now that I have it I'll slowly nudge it down as the day goes on. So control board messed up what do you think? I'm going to assume the heat control vr is buggered so I'll be dialing back the feed rate but it's humping now.
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It's finally putting out some decent heat with the feed at 5 and the heat on 6.5. I'm leaving it there. Even in this house it should be burning it down.
Temps won't be changing much until Monday when it climbs to low 30's at that point I'll use the feed to control the heat. If that fails some how I'm pretty sure the Quadrafire will handle it until Tuesday morning when the tech arrives with a new board. Always have a back up plan. 😁.
Damn this thing is just whaling. Certainly can't complain. Highest it's ever been. 🤙
Things went well last night, only dropped to -3, at which it was 77 in here. Dropped the rate to 4, lost a degree. Now dropped the heat to 6 see what happens. Temps up to -1.
I'm totally impressed with the heat this gives off, now to be able to control it. Once I get the board replaced that should be the end of it. I'm back to the point where it started failing yesterday. Flame looks good so far.
Well the new board is installed, the old one was just screwed. He showed me how bad it was working. The new one has a auto/manual switch on it for starting and shut down. Also cleaned it, the ash bin was 3/4 full. So I'm hoping it's the end of issues.
Just a heads up, I saw earlier yours was a P61 not a P61A(2), the auto manual will only work with auto if there’s an igniter under the burnpot.
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No ignitor, he said it was one of the last made with the hole for the ignitor, that didn't have one. He said $500 in parts to have one. No thanks. 🤐 On aside note this all happened on the warmest day in a month. It was no less then 75 degrees in the house since 6:30am this morning with the Quadrafire on back up. 🤙
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I was told, start it on manual, once it starts put it on auto, that will start the auger. When I shut it off, put the stove in stop the auger will shut off and once it cools down the stove will shut off. It didn't do that when I shut it down for him to repair it. I had to shut it off twice before it would do that. Once for the auger and once for the fan and stove to shut down. I'm also getting an oscillation in one of the motors. It's a high pitched whine that gets louder an softer. I imagine it's time for a fan? And depending on where you standing in the house it's louder or softer. It's starting to get louder every where. Standing in front of it it sounds Iike it's coming from the left side. And is louder depending where I stand. After further investigation I believe its the convection motor, isn there a lubricant I can spray it with?
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Hmmm I had to turn the heat up, and it's almost stopped. Had to turn it up more,and it's almost disappeared.
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Couple of hours later, it's virtual stopped. Any ideas, or should I order a new fan? It's been running for 24 hours.
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Can you put a video up of the oscillation sound…and you were told incorrect info regarding the auto/manual toggle switch…it’s for the igniter only and won’t have an effect…if you want to test this, leave it in manual and shut it down then leave it in auto and shut it down, do the same for starting…if it’s the bearings on the combustion motor, a few drops of 3 in 1 oils on the bearing caps may help
Next cleaning is in a couple of weeks, I'll test it there. When we started it, it won't go until he flipped it up and the auger kicked in. He even commented on forgetting that. And it's the distribution motor(bottom back right side) it's actually quiet now. No ringing whistling or pulsing. It's been some what noisey since I got it but this morning it was irritating me. When it comes back I'll get a video and post it. Much thanks. I took a video but it's to big to unload. I'll work on that in the mean time
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If some one wants to post an email I can sent the bigger one to you. That one really isn't very good.
That’s odd that the auto/manual is working that way, unless he set the dip switches for that sequence. Maybe because it’s an updated board..haven’t seen that before. On mine, with an igniter, flipping it to manual just saves the igniter by feeding pellets on a low burn to keep the fire going. The fan doesn’t sound bad in the video…maybe just warming up I guess.
Yup he had to reset the board to even make it work the old colour of wire thing. And that's not bad agreed. This morning it was wailing away on a lower heat setting and it was loud.
And my mistake, in your first post you said it was a P61-2 but you also said it was manual which threw me off. So yes when it’s off and you switch it to auto the auger will feed pellets into the burnpot and the igniter will heat up to start the burn. My bad
Well new problem. The stove is surging feed wise. From 4.5-6 I'm not getting consistent heat. It's not feeding properly. Above 6 it gives great heat for about 5 minutes then almost shuts off. It continues to do this. From hot to almost off. This is on stove setting where it should give a fairly constant heat and flame. But it goes from 12 inches to 1 inch. Up and down. I've got it on 5 now and it's doing the same but not as bad. The swing is less. I considered turning it off and unplugging and plugging it back in and restarting, to see if it would reset it. This is without letting it cool off. Just a quick off and on. Any thoughts? Don't want to completely wipe out a new board. At least it runs now. I was told but the technician that the blinking feed light will tell you the rate. It comes on for about 6 seconds consistently. No sure how to decode it, does that help? No blinking.
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