kserr said:Done it, did it , been there. Thanks for the thoughts anymore would be great.
61snowrider said:OK guys I hear everbody saying to use the leaf blower to clean the stove. Since everyone uses this I guess that it is best, but what about a shop vac. Is it just as good or not? I have a shop
vac but no leaf blower ( with vac ). What type of leaf blower works the best since I have to buy one? Also I have had mine ( St. Croix ) for 4 winters now. The first 2 years was great!
Now we bought our pellets from another supplier ( supposed to be premium hard wood pellets ) and these last 2 years they have been clunking up in the fire box. They also sell blend pellets ( ( a mix of soft and hard wood ). Could this be bad pellets? I am going back to my original supplier next winter but this supplier is only 2 miles away. My original one is 30 miles away!!. I am from Pa. I am always cleaning my stove, it burns black. I take the ceramic panels out and beat on the back with hammer to get debri out, clean out the 2 trap doors, and it still doesn't burn right. Can't wait to try the leaf blower trick.
kserr said:Thanks for the input we will re-clean the venting system. The only thing is if indeed we had a lot of ash wouldn't the stove be starved for air and not burn good and not relight. My flame is always good .When it does shut down and the #2 light starts to blink I have just been holding the power on button until it restarts itself and it has been. It could go for a week and not shut down but yes lately its doing it more.
kserr said:Hi
We are using corninth and Penningtons we usually mix them and vaccum them before we use them. The stove has shut down twice again since the repair man came and told us it was the wind gusts from our fresh air intake and to put a shield on it which my husband did. Well that wasn't the problem but I knew that. I don't think are vent system is clogged because we just checked it. We are vented up through our roof about 16 feet of stove pipe. We also went with a 4" pipe because of our evl being 16feet. When the repair man came up he tested our vaccum pressure and said it was low and cleaned out one the hoses and rechecked the pressure and it was back to normal. So I guess it couldn't of been the vaccum hose either. The flame is lively and not sooty our glass just gets the brown haze so I know its burning properly. When it shuts down you can hear the combustion fan shut right off so I'm wondering if their is a fault with that? Someone posted earlier that St. Croix was having problems with the combustion fan. I really don't know what you mean by bridging in the hopper? All I can figure is you mean that the long pellets are causing the auger to stop there for causing the stove to shut down. Anymore advice would be great I'm still waiting to hear from St. Croix. >:-(
msmith66 said:Sound like your stove is plugged. You do have to clean out the two ports and ALSO,
there are two plugs one on each side of the burn pot. You may have to remove the
brick panels. Pop out the two plugs and use a 1/4" OD tube about 2ft. long to push
out the ash from behind the chamber wall.
msmith66 said:The ash ports are down below the burn pot, the fire wall plugs that i'm talking about are next to the burn pot. One to the left and one to the right on the fire wall. The older models don't have them. A tech bulletin was sent uot on the older models to drill a 3/8 hole (2) on each side of the burn pot then cover with spring plugs.
maglite67 said:BY the way a #2 light is a vac error. Not enough neg pressure. On your stove it happens if your stove gets too dirty, door is left open, the combustion blower stops or slows, vac switch fails of not reading the pressure. also if you have wind blowing into your exhaust vent over powering the combustion blower dropping the pressure. Never your intake it would increase the pressure I would remove the flapper and go back to how it was if you ran fine last year. I have not seen any other causes of this except some rare cases control boards or voltage drops. 80% cleaning 15% blower and 5% other ones mentioned.
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