Hi Folks, Please forgive any mistakes as this is my first post. I have been a lurker on this site since I bought my stove in March of 08. I slayed the propane beast the minute the P68 was fired up for the first time. Other then having my igniter replaced last year I have had no real issues with my stove. The stove will burn anything I feed it. I've burned Newp, Country Boy (my hands down favorite), Hamer's hot ones, Dry Creek and just recently Barefoot. I bought a dozen bags of Barefoot last week to test and the first thing I noticed was the stove would not shut down when it reached temp (Room mode). It would just stay on that low maintenance flame mode for hours. The only way I could get it to go off was to turn it off. At this point the last thing I was thinking was pellet issue. I looked up the old posts on here and put a call in to my dealer and all signs pointed to a possible ESP problem. I removed and cleaned the ESP probe. Still wouldn't shutoff by itself. My dealer came out yesterday and put it through all it's paces testing the ESP etc. Everything checked out so he suggested I clean my vent pipe that I was only cleaning once a season(I vent to an existing triple wall pipe I had for my wood stove). Last night I cleaned the vent pipe.That didn't help, still would not shut down. This morning I did my weekly cleaning of the stove. (I have been accused of cleaning my stove to much). I removed the last of the Barefoot pellets and put in some Newp. I am in the middle of seeing if this makes a difference.
I guess after all this long post I'm asking, has anyone heard of a bad ESP probe, or room sensor wire or circuit board even if these components passed a diagnostic test? I am a technician with a public utility and I am still thinking the ESP probe is faulty. And the last bit of info is the Barefoot pellets(batch 09-10) although burning pretty hot I did notice they are longer then I've seen before some as long as 2+ inches. I will post later if the Barefoots were the issue.
Sorry for the long post.
I guess after all this long post I'm asking, has anyone heard of a bad ESP probe, or room sensor wire or circuit board even if these components passed a diagnostic test? I am a technician with a public utility and I am still thinking the ESP probe is faulty. And the last bit of info is the Barefoot pellets(batch 09-10) although burning pretty hot I did notice they are longer then I've seen before some as long as 2+ inches. I will post later if the Barefoots were the issue.
Sorry for the long post.