Hi,
I'm new to this forum and my stove.
This season I'm using my Quadrafire 1000 pellet stove for the first time.It was in the house that I bought and I'm guessing it is about 10 years old.
Pretty much every day I have to pull out the cleanout plug and scrape out klinkers out of the firepot or the stove won't light.
No problem I'm OK with that.Today after I did my routine, the stove started lighting, almost started to get going but then the pellets stopped feeding. So I checked the fuel and there was some moisture in it and a whole lot of sawdust.The bag must have gotten wet on the inside.I removed all the fuel and vacuumed out the chute, put fresh fuel in and restarted it. Same result.
I then checked the gasket that the firepot sits in and it has a tear in it. There was a gap, so it did not form a complete seal.
Since I don't have a spare I ended up remolding it around the point of contact with the firepot a little to form a tighter seal and it worked.
The stove is now burning like it should again.
But now I have a few questions.
1 Is is possible that the leaky seal on the burner gasket was the reason why the auger stopped feeding pellets?Is there a relation between the vacuum switch and a failing firepot seal?
2 The firepot sits on the gasket loosely.It is not attached or held in place by anything other than it's own weight.So when I scrape it out it can happen that it shifts a little, possibly disturbing the seal, which its why the fabric might have gotten damaged in the first place.Is that the way it should be or is there a part missing on my stove that would somehow secure the firepot in place?
3 I read about the vacuum switch and a line that ends somewhere in the chute near the auger.I didn't mess with it this time but is it possible that it might have become plugged up from the sawdust and that I might have cleared it out when I stuck my shopvac hose into the chute?
4 What material is the gasket made of and where can I get a replacement? The material is probably about 1" -2" wide and it is some type of woven light colored fabric.
I just want to know a little more about troubleshooting the stove so that I'm not tapping in the dark so much next time I have a problem.
Thanks
I'm new to this forum and my stove.
This season I'm using my Quadrafire 1000 pellet stove for the first time.It was in the house that I bought and I'm guessing it is about 10 years old.
Pretty much every day I have to pull out the cleanout plug and scrape out klinkers out of the firepot or the stove won't light.
No problem I'm OK with that.Today after I did my routine, the stove started lighting, almost started to get going but then the pellets stopped feeding. So I checked the fuel and there was some moisture in it and a whole lot of sawdust.The bag must have gotten wet on the inside.I removed all the fuel and vacuumed out the chute, put fresh fuel in and restarted it. Same result.
I then checked the gasket that the firepot sits in and it has a tear in it. There was a gap, so it did not form a complete seal.
Since I don't have a spare I ended up remolding it around the point of contact with the firepot a little to form a tighter seal and it worked.
The stove is now burning like it should again.
But now I have a few questions.
1 Is is possible that the leaky seal on the burner gasket was the reason why the auger stopped feeding pellets?Is there a relation between the vacuum switch and a failing firepot seal?
2 The firepot sits on the gasket loosely.It is not attached or held in place by anything other than it's own weight.So when I scrape it out it can happen that it shifts a little, possibly disturbing the seal, which its why the fabric might have gotten damaged in the first place.Is that the way it should be or is there a part missing on my stove that would somehow secure the firepot in place?
3 I read about the vacuum switch and a line that ends somewhere in the chute near the auger.I didn't mess with it this time but is it possible that it might have become plugged up from the sawdust and that I might have cleared it out when I stuck my shopvac hose into the chute?
4 What material is the gasket made of and where can I get a replacement? The material is probably about 1" -2" wide and it is some type of woven light colored fabric.
I just want to know a little more about troubleshooting the stove so that I'm not tapping in the dark so much next time I have a problem.
Thanks