Napoleon NPS45 exhaust blower motor and impeller

Stove stopped with #3 flashing, I am almost sure due to an auger jammed (saw long pellets in the Platinum). It was almost running out of pellets.
Before I turned it on I noticed some pellets in the pot that seemed to make it there once the unit was cool because they were like when in the bag (not touched by fire at all), but the pot itself did NOT have the cake buildup I'm used to.

Fired it back up and added almost a bag of Nation's Choice and checked after close to 2 hours before I went to work and the flame was very nice and vibrant...
Let's see how this Nation's Choice perform when I get home later this afternoon but the stove is DEFINITELY working MUCH better...!!!!

Either, plugging the holes has done the big trick OR there's a blockage in the OAK????

When I get home, I will plug the OAK back in and run it until tomorrow and see how that goes.

Thanks to all for keeping up with this thread and my stove saga...

 

I'd be really surprise on any blockage...
It has a screen outside. This OAK is the one I had with my previous Englander and it fits perfect to the Napoleon.

 

Have you checked the screen?

 

I once had the intake blower get plugged with pet hair. When I had my Napoleon, the lazy burn always was an indication of poor air flow somewhere. I got real familiar with that stove. Now one of my sons has it. He is a real handy man so I'm sure he has figured it all out. I'm really hoping he gets his furnace fixed this year because it is cheaper to run than either of his two pellet stoves.

 

Yup.

 

Please post a picture of the OAK from the outside of the house. Some stoves can not tolerate a screen on the OAK at all if the mesh is too small. I can't remember what the England OAK screen is like.

Also do as jt suggested for the upper holes as a lot of that air flow is not helping the fire. The cure for bad burns for a number of stoves has been a new burn pot with fewer if any upper holes. When my unit was new it had a he!! of a time ejecting the ash from the fire-pot leading to pile up, clinkers, and good ole lazy burn. The first step I took was to remove the OAK screen, stove worked a lot better but still not right then I heard about placing a gasket under the lip of the burn pot to block the upper air holes, since my burn pot had been destroyed by that time I had it replaced under warranty, lo and behold the new burn pot came with a dense gasket under its lip, off to the races we went, stove has been burning great ever since. Noticing the second burn pot is getting a bit long o the tooth I ordered a new one from Don2222 this fall, when it arrived a couple days after I ordered it I took a look see and guess what the newest burn pot has zero holes where the upper row used to be.

Moral of the story is: It is all in the air flow.

 

Thanks Smokey, would be nice to know if Napoleon has redesigned the burn pot at all.

 

Kinda off topic but, would can you use to fill in burn pot holes?

 

Will be very curious after you plug OAK back in and run for a while. If nothing changes, I guess the burn pot holes made the difference.

 

Furnace cement.

 

can it be easily removed?

 

You should be able to chip or drill it out. I'm sure some of the guys that have messed with it will be along soon to comment.

 

Me too..!!

 

Plugged air back in I think the flame started to get lazy....should've left it longer but went outside and I think there was lint on the screen...
Brought a compressed air car to clean a bit and watching what happens now.

I think that may have been the issue....??
Stove is running nice since this morning with cheaper Nation's Choice pellets, just realized I don't have more bags so may go to HD to get a couple more.

 

I know, I know....when frustration kicks in, ANYTHING is possible. To the eye, nothing I saw obstructing it, no debris or leaf. Then I put my glasses on (LOL) and saw sort of a lint formation, very thin, and that looks like it was the main issue