WOW what happend

[chrisasst]

My stove has an electric ignition but sometimes it has a hard time starting. So I bought some gel and just tried it. I had pellets lit and burning good, so I turned on the stove. I walked away tand came back to no fire and lots of smoke. Can I not use gel with a electric ignition, or what did I do wrong you think?


On anther note, while the smoke was in there and after I turned the stove off, smoke started to come out around my window and my door so I guess I need to get new gaskets. Even though I just replaced the gaskets near the end of winter....so I am confused on that. OR does the smoke coming out those areas mean something else....

 

[THE ROOSTER]

Call Jimmy Johnson to fix it LOL Just kidding, do you have a manual overide switch for the stove??? My guess is once you had the fire going and hit the start switch it started to feed an extra amount of pellets in to fill the burn pot and light, this large amount of pellets put your fire out and caused all the smoke, well at least that's my guess on it...
As for your gasket, I'd say you don't need to replace it, since you just did it a few months ago, I'd say no stove is 100% air tight

 

[jtakeman]

Not sure what stove you have, May help if we had the model number. Some have instructions on how to manually light in the manual.

Most auto ignite stove dump a bunch of pellets on start and then wait until ignition. My guess is when you hit the start it dump the pellets and smothered the ones you had lite.

I would start with a small cup of pellets, gell them up. But don't dump in and start. Start stove and wait for it to stop dumping pellets. Put in the gelled pellets on top. Light and close door. Might work? At least it would not smother the lite ones.

jay

 

[chrisasst]

I will try that next time. I have a kozi 120 (junk IMO)

 

[kast]

When it comes to the smoke leakage, do you have any vertical on your piping? I have a straight pipe and when I lose power (not often) I get some smoke, so this might not be the gasket.

 

[lucky13]

I get smoke that comes from around my door if the fire goes out.

 

[sinnian]

You probably blew out the fire when your closed the door due to the blower and draft. When manually lighting you will need to coax the door closed, little by little.

That's my guess anyway.