I am currently in the middle of my 3rd heating season with a Quadra-fire Mt Vernon AE pellet stove and am wondering if anyone has any advice on what to do about a pellet stove that burns out ignitors way too often. My first season, the ignitor failed 3 times. Last year, at least 3 times and this year it just failed for the 3rd time and there is still lots of winter left up here. I cant even get through a ton of pellets without a failure. I clean the stove 2 or 3 times a week. I have the updated firepot, a new wall control, a new baffle.
I could tolerate the hassle of these failure until my warranty expired recently but, given the problems I have experienced with this stove, I dont really feel comfortable going through another heating season without warranty protection unless someone has some ideas on what could be going on with this stove that would cause these ignitors to fail so frequently. The dealer has, in general, been good to work with and seems willing to go to bat with Quadrafire on my behalf so we will see where that goes but I am wondering if anyone else has had ideas about what could be going on and how to fix??
I could tolerate the hassle of these failure until my warranty expired recently but, given the problems I have experienced with this stove, I dont really feel comfortable going through another heating season without warranty protection unless someone has some ideas on what could be going on with this stove that would cause these ignitors to fail so frequently. The dealer has, in general, been good to work with and seems willing to go to bat with Quadrafire on my behalf so we will see where that goes but I am wondering if anyone else has had ideas about what could be going on and how to fix??