Last year I moved into a house with a St Coix Prescott (now Avalon)pellet stove ~10yrs old. It ran Ok, though not great last winter though it did improve after I cleaned the flue.

This year its running poorly on the same type of pellet. Ash backs up in the pot, the glass soots up quickly, and it wont run on higher setting without backing up the pellet chute.

From my research it seems to be an air intake problem. I've cleaned the flue and the stove and installed an outside air intake but the problem persists. I am baffled. What should I look at next? The Fans seem to be working properly.

It has a self cleaning pot mechanism but a bearing went in it.I was told by a stove sales person that this mechanism was really only for burning corn and that pellet ash should just blow out of the pot. So disconnected it from the circuit board.

Any suggestions.

With temps in Montana now around 0* it would really be nice to get this resolved

Thanks