Hello I have seen many Whitfield Quest Plus wood pellet stoves with igniters but this is the first Whitfield Quest I have ever seen with an igniter. The Advantage II-T and Quest are Whitfield’s first models to have a Fast Fire ignition system! Not all of these stoves can have the igniter either! The Advantage II-T igniters start at serial # 75,864 The Quest igniters start at serial # 12,140 The good news is that the igniters and optional igniter upgrade kits are still available for these stoves! The reason why this is a fast fire system is because the igniter tube is tapered ad the end facing the burn pot to increase the velocity of the heated air so the pellets light in approximately 3 mins! I just cannot understand why every stove on the market today does not follow suit and we still have those slow poke igniter stoves that take approximately 5-6 minutes to light up??? All other Whitfield model stoves, the igniter can be replaced following the instructions in the last pic below. The Whitfield Quest model is quite different! In this example we have a Quest serial # 26585 with the igniter kit installed. The electronic igniter module is on the left side under the room blower where the igniter is plugged in. It was easy to just unplug it and connect a test cord that proved the igniter is dead! We removed the auger motor and auger which was another feat since the auger was jammed solid and the set bolt for the motor was facing down to make it impossible to get the Allen wrench in. Then to my surprise the igniter could not be removed from the back of the fire wall inside the stove because there was a metal box welded around it! Therefore the igniter & the igniter tube must be removed from the front in the burn box cradle! The tube does pull out by using prying the pin from the slot on the bottom of the tube only accessible by removing the ash pan! However the real trick is to remove the 4 lock nuts from under the burn cradle and remove the top of the burn cradle to have enough room to pull the igniter and igniter tube out the front! LOL In this case since all parts were original we had to clean and dry moly the auger, install a new nylon auger bearing and end plate, then install a new high quality auger motor with the needle bearings on the output shaft! After removing the igniter tube & igniter we just removed and replaced the igniter in the igniter tube after cleaning the tube a spraying it with dry moly to prevent rust and give an even better air flow for a super fast fire! Then we installed the new igniter and tube then fished the igniter clips and wires thru the welded box before installing the new auger motor to easily get our hands in! Not an easy job this time but since these parts lasted 20 years they should be good for a very long time now! Lol Note: In the newer Whitfield Quest Plus and Advantage Plus pellet stoves the Igniter can be removed from the inside back of the firewall with a 5/8" deep socket and ratchet much more easily! See last pic of OEM Whitfield instructions Picture file names below: WP4IgniterReplacement01-Model&SerialTag WP4IgniterReplacement02-WireDiagram WP4IgniterReplacement03-IgniterModuleBottomRightSide WP4IgniterReplacement04-ControlPanel WP4IgniterReplacement05-IgniterUnderBurnPot WP4IgniterReplacement06-WeldedBoxAroundBackOfIgniter! WP4IgniterReplacement07-FrontOfIgniterPin WP4IgniterReplacement08-IgniterTubePullOut WP4IgniterReplacement09-TwoOfFourNutsForBPCradleTop WP4IgniterReplacement10-ReplacingIgniterCartridge WP4IgniterReplacement11-CleanedBurnPotNewCradleTopGasketNewIgniterLights WP4IgniterReplacement12-CloseUpFire WP4IgniterReplacement13-Fire WP4IgniterReplacement14-AllWorking! Last Pic is Whitfield OEM Igniter Replacement instructions but does not cover the WP4 Quest!
