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On a side note: How are pellet stoves for general useage?

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They are great! I do not own one because it locks me into the shackles of a company supply line and they need power. But if you live in an area with stable power and want some serious heat for a shop or spot heat for your home in the really cold months I would recommend. Don't get the cheap ones however, get a Harman. (harmanstoves.com) They are built to last for years and years. They even triple dip the metal in high temperature gloss enamel paint like they used to with all appliances back in the 1940s. That price tag is a shocker but I know of people who have bought used and run them for 7 years without any issue. V.s. the cheap ones that are really only meant for a shop heater where it is run on weekends or 6 hours a day.

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Holy shit they came off the fucking board? Also Holy shit 4600$ for that?

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haha! No not 4600, four to six hundred. Oh my that would be crazy, I would reverse engineer this thing and make a killing.

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Oh well still not acceptable repair that sucker all you need is a couple wires and a soldering iron.

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Hopefully. This thing has a pic controller and if that is blown out I don't have code for it. On the reverse engineering point they only make two control boards for pellet stoves so if I could get my hands on both with intact code I could design jumperable hardware to switch between the two types. They design these things to have really weird parts that are hard to find, for instance the scroll cage blower on most of them run at 120 volts 85hz AC. Sourcing replacements gets interesting. You can get 120volt 60hz Dayton 400 cfm blowers all day for $40 but the ones that will work in these things are $240-360... I feel like they have a mafia manufacturing chain to make it hard to repair and source without paying out the nose.

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That much nad they use such a thin PCB that the copper can blow through the layers. Needs more fuses.

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The other side of that board. (pic8.co) Scorch marks around a tac switch and variable resistor. Blew the trace in half.