smoke show said:j-takeman said:SmokeyTheBear said:stoveguy2esw said:newpelletstove said:So I called the store that sold me the stove. He told me that the igniter can be expected to fail once every year or two on these. Wow !! It's $110 just to buy one, and maybe $150 additional to have someone install it !! .
are you serious???! :bug: WOW indeed! pretty danged expensive for a part expected to die that frequently
I'll take my cheapo stove with the $27.00 one set screw and removing a couple of knuckle scraper screws to get the air intake tube off system. That's too rich for this critter as well.
But its a Harman! The Cadillac of stoves. Nothing but the best! ;-)
Or was that Harmon? Or Harmin? I don't remember anymore! :red:
Jay, your not making any friends with comments like that. hh:
Even the overpriced, over engineered MtV AE ignitor isn't nearly that much. ;-)
Defiant said:Some of the Harmans I service produced in 2002 still have the original igniters.
MarkF48 said:On a couple of occasions on my XXV I've had either a slow start where pellets will feed out enough to spill over the fire pot before igniting or a non-start and each time it was a matter of giving the inside of the ignitor chamber a cleaning, usually with a vac, to restore a fairly fast light of the pellets. I may look at tapping on the ignitor fins as well.
I do have a question about how the ignitor works to settle an argument with a friend.... are the holes at the front of the fire pot where the heat comes from to ignite the pellets (sort of like a hot air paint stripper). My friend believes the ignitor heats up the bottom of the fire pot which causes the ignition. He seemed to have a good reasoning for this, but I can't buy into what he says.
MarkF48 said:On a couple of occasions on my XXV I've had either a slow start where pellets will feed out enough to spill over the fire pot before igniting or a non-start and each time it was a matter of giving the inside of the ignitor chamber a cleaning, usually with a vac, to restore a fairly fast light of the pellets. I may look at tapping on the ignitor fins as well.
I do have a question about how the ignitor works to settle an argument with a friend.... are the holes at the front of the fire pot where the heat comes from to ignite the pellets (sort of like a hot air paint stripper). My friend believes the ignitor heats up the bottom of the fire pot which causes the ignition. He seemed to have a good reasoning for this, but I can't buy into what he says.
MarkF48 said:On a couple of occasions on my XXV I've had either a slow start where pellets will feed out enough to spill over the fire pot before igniting or a non-start and each time it was a matter of giving the inside of the ignitor chamber a cleaning, usually with a vac, to restore a fairly fast light of the pellets. I may look at tapping on the ignitor fins as well.
I do have a question about how the ignitor works to settle an argument with a friend.... are the holes at the front of the fire pot where the heat comes from to ignite the pellets (sort of like a hot air paint stripper). My friend believes the ignitor heats up the bottom of the fire pot which causes the ignition. He seemed to have a good reasoning for this, but I can't buy into what he says.
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