Another burn out

My pellet stove has shuts itself off once the burner temperature drops below a given temp. This might be a nice feature for the FE's as well. I have only had one 'burn out' and I didn't realize it had stopped burning for a couple of hours. If the unit would have shut down, it would have been apparent that a problem had occured. Heck, you could probably set the FE's up so that if a flame out occured and the burner temp dropped down below a given temperature, the unit would shut down and then start back up again, igniting the pellets again.

I had this same problem once right after I installed my FE inside my concession trailer. I don't know if that anything to do with it. It had been outside with only a roof and backed up to a shed wall. If you look closely at this pix you'll see the Chattahoochee River past the shed, my point being that there is always plenty of wind that comes up and down the river during inclimate weather. It never blew out all the time I have owned until here in the "Q".

I probably found my problem though, the black block inside the timer/controller was set on 3. Zero is 15 second auger on and 45 seconds auger off. Eddy says that position 1 is where it should have been and was surprised that I hadn't had previous problems with flame outs. Postion 3 is 15 on and 75 seconds off! After changing to position 1 I haven't had anymore flame outs. I have let the grease bucket overflow though, arrrrg!

It is very easy to check the timing. Remove as many of the pellets you can so you can get a good eyeball on the auger. Then set it to smoke...I think it'll stay on for 4 minutes to initially light it up. After that time it'll do the smoke or what I call the idle mode...and should be on for 15 seconds and off for 55 seconds. When you crank the temp up from smoke then the auger will run continously until the set temp is reach then back to the idle mode 15/55. If you are not getting this timing let me know or look back on this forum for my explanation for someone with the same or similar problem. It is a very easy quick fix.

Eddy must be off somewhere away from a computer because I am surprised he hasn't instructed you to call him.

One other thing...mine is the FE100 not the CS/FE but the works are exactly the same, so far!!!

BTW - my exhaust stack is 8 feet long plus the 2 bends back to back.

Peter

E.W. I would like to talk to you and have you check some things. These units are voltage sensitive. In the middle of winter and the middle of summer power usage is at peak and we sometimes have a drop in voltage from our power co's. You may put a meter on it and it will read fine but unless you do a study to where it will chart it all day or night you will see in some areas it fluctuates. This is why at cookoffs the battery and inverter is a perfect way to operate. Cookoffs the power even fluctuates worse thenanywhere because it's ussually temp circuits and coffee pots and a/c units from trailers and RV's really put a burden on them. These units use shaded poll gear motors and they are driven by very little wattage. If the voltage is low the motors do nnot have the horsepower there rated at and what happens is they will turn slower or not at all and that doesn't meter the proper amount of fuel. when we see this happen is when we do long low temp cooking and during that time the power co will have a short period of low voltage. If the unit is running at higher temps it's not running the minimum 15sec on and the 55 sec off. This where the problem happens in low voltage. we are putting in such little amount of fuel to sustain the fire. If you are a contest cook and this happenns try using you battery setup and see if it solves the trouble. if you are at a residence or a permenant location there is available on the market, voltage condictioners. grainger is a good source for these. i would like if you have any of these troubles to contact me by personel pager at 816-818-1888 and I'll try to return your calll promptly.

Eddy,
Use spell check.
Charles

Had to go to a fire and didn't have time to do that. Sorry , I didn't want to lose it and retype it.