I did my regular weekly cleaning on my 2 1/2 year old Harmon P61a, and when it was all over the stove would not start again. I have had zero problems with this stove and am pretty meticulous about cleaning it. It was warm here this weekend so I did an extra good cleaning taking off the back panels and vacuuming everything I could get at with the hose. When I went to turn the stove on a day later and nothing happened. All the lights lit up normally and yet no pellets would fall, no auger would turn nothing. I unplugged it and plugged it back in a few times and nothing. I took all of the pellets out, worked the slide plate back and forth, opened the box (forgot what it was called) on the back with the wingnut, and vacuumed out a tablespoon of fines. Put it back together and nothing.
I was about to call the stoveshop for a service call, and tried to figure out one more time what I had done to cause this problem. I retraced my cleaning steps from the day before. I had put the vacuum on the back of the combustion fan motor and vacuumed it so that the fan spun with the vacuum suction and wondered if that could have caused a problem. I then felt the back of the fan motor and it was very hot, but would not turn when plugged in. I unplugged the stove and manually spun the fan motor with a screwdriver blade. Plugged the stove back in turned it on, and she started right up.
I have a couple of questions. If the combustion fan motor does not immediately come on, does the stove do nothing? Does spinning the fan motor with a vacuum do any damage? I got no blink errors when the stove would not operate.
I was about to call the stoveshop for a service call, and tried to figure out one more time what I had done to cause this problem. I retraced my cleaning steps from the day before. I had put the vacuum on the back of the combustion fan motor and vacuumed it so that the fan spun with the vacuum suction and wondered if that could have caused a problem. I then felt the back of the fan motor and it was very hot, but would not turn when plugged in. I unplugged the stove and manually spun the fan motor with a screwdriver blade. Plugged the stove back in turned it on, and she started right up.
I have a couple of questions. If the combustion fan motor does not immediately come on, does the stove do nothing? Does spinning the fan motor with a vacuum do any damage? I got no blink errors when the stove would not operate.