hi,
My brother in law has a whitfield optima 3 stove which is about 10 years old. this fall it did not run, it would shut down after 20 mins. a friend who is very knowledgable tore it down and cleaned everything. fired it up again and the same problem. they replaced the control module, same result. this was after talking to lenox who suggested a new board. at this point I got involved. the room heat fan would shut down at about 20 mins as well. I blew out the motor, thinking it was shutting down on thermal overload. bench tested the motor for about 40 mins after cleaning it ran great. reinstalled the motor and the same problem. all overtemp limit sensors are testing fine, a new flame eye and another new control board has been installed. still the same problem. We are all at a loss.
any ideas. it is starting to get cold out
bernie
My brother in law has a whitfield optima 3 stove which is about 10 years old. this fall it did not run, it would shut down after 20 mins. a friend who is very knowledgable tore it down and cleaned everything. fired it up again and the same problem. they replaced the control module, same result. this was after talking to lenox who suggested a new board. at this point I got involved. the room heat fan would shut down at about 20 mins as well. I blew out the motor, thinking it was shutting down on thermal overload. bench tested the motor for about 40 mins after cleaning it ran great. reinstalled the motor and the same problem. all overtemp limit sensors are testing fine, a new flame eye and another new control board has been installed. still the same problem. We are all at a loss.
any ideas. it is starting to get cold out
bernie