We have an Avalon pellet stove that has worked great for the last few years until a few days ago. We first noticed a squealing noise so we turned down the fan from high to low and it seemed to stop and all was well for a couple of days. Our normal setting for the stove has been to have the heat set on medium and the fan on high. This has always given us a perfect amount of heat for our house, so this low setting was a bit cold for us.
A couple of days after we had set the fan on low, I left the house for a couple of hours and when I came back I noticed the fire had burnt itself out but the stove and fans were still running. It must have been burnt out for quite some time because the stove was completely cold. I started it back up and everything seemed to work once again as normal, but only for about 25 minutes or so. The fire again would burn itself out. Each time I could restart the stove and it would come on and once again burn out in about 25 minutes. It is almost as if the auger would stop pushing pellets at the exact same time. I continued to try different settings and what I found was that any time the stove was set to medium or high setting it would burn out after that 25 minutes or so. The only setting that would stay on with no problems was low. So, now we have a stove that only runs good on low heat and a low fan. This was not enough heat for us at all.
We ran it this way for a couple of days with no problems once again, all the while I was doing tons of research trying to find my exact problem. I was mostly focusing on why we could not turn up the heat. I overwhelmed myself with all the information I read and I was left mostly confused. Meanwhile I had also taken the stove apart and cleaned every nook and cranny I could find until the stove and parts looked nearly new again. I oiled the parts that could benefit from it. Through my research I had found places that I didn't know even existed to clean and oil, so I was optimistic that this would solve my problems.
All of a sudden a couple of days later I seemed to have a new problem, or rather an old one that I had ignored while trying to solve my temperature setting problem. The stove was on in the low heat, low fan setting while I was doing some work outside. All of a sudden I could hear the most horrible squealing sound coming from inside my house and the pellet stove. When the squealing started I noticed the fire stopped getting air and the exhaust blower was no longer pushing air outside. A few minutes later smoke poured into my house. The fans stayed on of course even though I turned the stove off. The squealing continued through all of this.
I completely assumed that it must be my combustion blower since it had stopped pushing air out the exhaust. I spent the day doing more research and trying to find the part to replace. After a few hours, right before I was going to order my new combustion fan, I decided to start it up once again and be sure that I was ordering the right part. This time I changed the fan setting from that original low to medium and then high and while I was doing that it made the squeal! The squeal changed and got louder and higher pitched as I was moving the dial on the fan setting.
So, now I am completely confused. I had originally thought it was my combustion fan simply because it stopped pushing exhaust out. Now I am thinking it may be my convection fan, but why would that stop the exhaust from escaping out the exhaust pipe?
I would appreciate any ideas as I am completely clueless to any of this. It is obviously not my specialty as you can probably tell from my post!! I am also sorry it is so long, I have a hard time explaining myself! Thanks so much!!
A couple of days after we had set the fan on low, I left the house for a couple of hours and when I came back I noticed the fire had burnt itself out but the stove and fans were still running. It must have been burnt out for quite some time because the stove was completely cold. I started it back up and everything seemed to work once again as normal, but only for about 25 minutes or so. The fire again would burn itself out. Each time I could restart the stove and it would come on and once again burn out in about 25 minutes. It is almost as if the auger would stop pushing pellets at the exact same time. I continued to try different settings and what I found was that any time the stove was set to medium or high setting it would burn out after that 25 minutes or so. The only setting that would stay on with no problems was low. So, now we have a stove that only runs good on low heat and a low fan. This was not enough heat for us at all.
We ran it this way for a couple of days with no problems once again, all the while I was doing tons of research trying to find my exact problem. I was mostly focusing on why we could not turn up the heat. I overwhelmed myself with all the information I read and I was left mostly confused. Meanwhile I had also taken the stove apart and cleaned every nook and cranny I could find until the stove and parts looked nearly new again. I oiled the parts that could benefit from it. Through my research I had found places that I didn't know even existed to clean and oil, so I was optimistic that this would solve my problems.
All of a sudden a couple of days later I seemed to have a new problem, or rather an old one that I had ignored while trying to solve my temperature setting problem. The stove was on in the low heat, low fan setting while I was doing some work outside. All of a sudden I could hear the most horrible squealing sound coming from inside my house and the pellet stove. When the squealing started I noticed the fire stopped getting air and the exhaust blower was no longer pushing air outside. A few minutes later smoke poured into my house. The fans stayed on of course even though I turned the stove off. The squealing continued through all of this.
I completely assumed that it must be my combustion blower since it had stopped pushing air out the exhaust. I spent the day doing more research and trying to find the part to replace. After a few hours, right before I was going to order my new combustion fan, I decided to start it up once again and be sure that I was ordering the right part. This time I changed the fan setting from that original low to medium and then high and while I was doing that it made the squeal! The squeal changed and got louder and higher pitched as I was moving the dial on the fan setting.
So, now I am completely confused. I had originally thought it was my combustion fan simply because it stopped pushing exhaust out. Now I am thinking it may be my convection fan, but why would that stop the exhaust from escaping out the exhaust pipe?
I would appreciate any ideas as I am completely clueless to any of this. It is obviously not my specialty as you can probably tell from my post!! I am also sorry it is so long, I have a hard time explaining myself! Thanks so much!!
