Quadra Fire 1200 igniter not heating up

My pellet stove has two issues going on. the igniter is not heating up. I am seeing 36 ohms across the leads. I do not get any voltage reading when it trying to start. The other thing it is doing is it keeps feeding pellets as if it thinks it is a flame so it will just overflow the pot if I don't turn it off manually. I have checked the thermocouple and at rest it read 0 MV but if I put heat it up it goes up to around 30 Mvolts

 

Emergency call to our resident Quadrafire Pellet Stove Monkey Master slvrblkk

 

Do you have the stove on a surge suppressor? It "seems" most likely the control board is toast

 

No I don't That is what i was thinking as well

 

Did the stove start doing that all of a sudden or did you have a power outage or anything?

 

Was working fine two weeks ago temps had warmed up so have not needed it until the other night when this problem showed up. Haven't had any outages that I am aware of since last time it was on.

 

Only takes a split second surge to kill one of these boards. Regardless of whether you get it working with the existing parts, you really should have a surge suppressor. This is one a lot of us use...TrippLite UltraBlok....about $34 on 'Zon.

 

No voltage on the igniter at start-up is already a board/triac issue...then the constant feeding of pellets is another issue. Ohm reading on igniter is ok but I don't recall ever getting 30 millivolts (I think usually 14-15mV ish) on the thermo's but you're getting voltage so that seems ok too. Unfortunately, it looks like a bad board. Just to be safe, I would definitely double check all wiring and make sure the igniter has no frays before you plug a new board in.

 

Not any kind of expert on Quad's, but I seem to remember a lot of people saying that re-seating the control board/module can sometimes cure problems?

 

Good point Pete, it's worth a try.