QuadraFire classic bay 1200 fire pot filling

[Rml7012]

My classic bay 1200 has been filling up with unburned pellets for a long time now, to the point where the fire is rolling out of the pot. I keep messing with it thinking I know what I’m doing and I can’t figure it out. Combustion blower is clean, doors are sealed good, chimney is clean. Anybody have any more suggestions? I’m done with this stove I’m selling for a p68! Wanna fix problem before I sell

 

[Ssyko]

All the holes in the burn pot clean and open? Igniter hole? Ash gate still hooked to the cleanout rod and is it closed?

 

[Rml7012]

Yes that all checks out. I’m starting to think the pellets are no good. I’m burning energex

 

[Ssyko]

Im burning energex in my cb1200 and it’s doing great at -16 this morning. Is the hopper feed open to far?

 

[Rml7012]

No I don’t think so, I back it way down. It’s dropping them quicker than they are burning

 

[Ssyko]

Try pushing it all the way down and see if it helps. Then you can open it to get the fire back where it belongs when the pot burns down. I have pulled mine up from the bag getting caught on it when I loaded the stove

 

[Rml7012]

I just did and the fire went out lol

 

[Rml7012]

Have you ever cleaned your convection blower in the back?

 

[Ssyko]

Yeah I’ve had the whole stove apart a couple times and i clean the convection and combustion blowers every ton.

 

[Rml7012]

I’m thinking I need to clean the convection blower. I have the stove in the corner of the room will I have to pull it away from the wall or is it pretty easy to get out?

 

[Ssyko]

Convection blower has nothing to do with the fire. Your combustion blower is what draws air through the burn pot. But you might have to turn it to the side a bit to get enough room

 

[Rml7012]

Yeah I’m stumped. The guys coming today to buy it and I wish I knew what was causeing this

 

[Ssyko]

Usually cb1200 has way to much draft so unless you have something blocking the vent pipe or the impeller blades are bad on the combustion blower I’ve never had a pot fill up and smother itself.

 

[kappel15]

Well, if you closed the feed adjusting rod, and it went out, you need to find the sweet spot in between. kap

 

[kappel15]

Too much feed of high ash fuel, or dirty pot and or exhaust path is the cause of this problem. kap

 

[Rml7012]

I used my compressor and cleaned the heat exchangers all the way down to the combustion blower. What a mess that made. So I don’t believe anything is blocking the vent and it’s clean

 

[kappel15]

Is your control box set on 1 ? If you unplug stove, and plug back in, control box blue light should blink once every 10 seconds. If it is on 2, this is extra 10% fuel. kap

 

[kappel15]

Sounds like stove is clean, what about exhaust pipe or cold air return if you have one?

 

[Rml7012]

Exhaust pipe on the stove? I ran the brush from outside all the way to the stove and cleaned it. I don’t have the fresh air line

 

[Ssyko]

Ever had the burn pot out? Checked all the directional holes? They will fill up with hard deposits

 

[Rml7012]

Yeah I just took the pot out last night and cleaned and scraped it really good

 

[kappel15]

Did you put a new gasket under the pot?

 

[corkman]

I would suggest you run out and grab a bag of different Pellets and try them in the stove. Just because energex are burning well for someone else doesn’t mean anything to you. If you have the same issue with the new pelle the you need to be up front with the buyer. They’res a lot of work involved in moving the stove for him and further investment with piping and such. He’ll not be a happy camper when he fired it up only to see this happen. Then he’ll spend days wondering what he’s doing wrong and trying to figure it all out. Just be up front and negotiate from there. Should he still decide to take it point him to YouTube and the leaf blower trick. I do hope it’s just the Pellets

 

[Rml7012]

No gasket under the burn pot. Is there suppose to be one?

 

[Rml7012]

I looked. I am missing a gasket in the fire pot. Would this make the pot fill up? I’m not seeing how a little gasket would make that much of a difference