Ok I know most of you wouldnt consider this stove much of a score but get this...I was walkin in TSC today to pickup some starter gel and out front of the store she stood. Apparently it was a floor model that had been put back in their storage room for the past couple of years. It had some oil build up on the top of it from where tools or something was stored on top of it but otherwise looks like new. It had a clearance tag on it that said "parts only, broken" for $100. Thats 100 bux folks! I asked the manager what was wrong with it and he said that mice have chewed up the wiring. I asked how he knew that and he said because there was some insulation inside of the back where the control panel was like mice have nested there or something. He didnt have electric cord for it either so that told me he had no clue if this thing really worked or not but my guess was something was probably wrong.
So I gave them their $100 and took it home. Had a spare computer cord that plugged right in and the digital control board lit right up. After a minute or so I could smell the heat from the electronic igniter and the exhaust fan was on. The auger wasnt working and the blower fan wasnt on. I hooked up a jumper to the auger and the blower fan and they both worked so I knew it was somewhere between the control board and those 2 parts. sure enough there was a loose connector that had wires coming from one of the safety sensors to the control panel. hooked it up and everything started working together like it should. I burned it for about an hour out in the garage without exhaust pipe (doors open of course) and it never quit. seemed like the pellets were burning too quickly but im guessing that was a combination of the air intake it was getting being outside, no exhaust pipe, and the pellets were ground up bad from being a bag I had been stepping on to reach others on top. sure seems like a good find to me so far for $100.
So I gave them their $100 and took it home. Had a spare computer cord that plugged right in and the digital control board lit right up. After a minute or so I could smell the heat from the electronic igniter and the exhaust fan was on. The auger wasnt working and the blower fan wasnt on. I hooked up a jumper to the auger and the blower fan and they both worked so I knew it was somewhere between the control board and those 2 parts. sure enough there was a loose connector that had wires coming from one of the safety sensors to the control panel. hooked it up and everything started working together like it should. I burned it for about an hour out in the garage without exhaust pipe (doors open of course) and it never quit. seemed like the pellets were burning too quickly but im guessing that was a combination of the air intake it was getting being outside, no exhaust pipe, and the pellets were ground up bad from being a bag I had been stepping on to reach others on top. sure seems like a good find to me so far for $100.