Not sure if this will resolve itself or not but I'm having issues with starting. All operations are working; red call light on, auger dropping pellets, exhaust fan blowing, ignitor red hot. My fires started taking longer and longer to "catch". I'd get plenty of smoke and then finally it'd flame up. Last week it wouldn't even smoke the pellets. My burn pot holes were clean and exhaust was cleaned with chimney sweep brush and the leaf blower. But just couldn't get much pull on heat through the pellets to ignite them. So I figured the exhaust blower was giving out and I ordered a replacement. (the blower from CSH for $150) It arrived today and I installed it and fired up the stove but still no smoke. I removed the right brick panel and shut the door and almost instantly I had smoke and then fire. I opened the door and put the brick back in and closed the door and the fire's been burning fine ever since. Is this a sign of poor quality pellets just having trouble starting? I was getting Somersets from Menards here in central Illinois, then they switched to Magic Spark. Those seemed to burn fine in November but the bags (only 8 of them) that I have now came off the top of a brand new pallet. If it turns out to be a pellet issue I may be in luck since my Father-in-law bought us a ton of pellets (Pro Pellet) as a Christmas gift. Just wondering if these symptoms sound like a pellet issue, or something else.