Well let me weigh in on this one a little bit.

Now take my info with a grain of salt...I am a new Bixby owner (been running mine only 2-3 months) and do not have nearly all of the experience that a lot of the guys here do.

With that said these are the pros I see with Bixby...they put out a lot of heat. Or at least are capable of it. Good size hopper so you don't have to be filling constantly. Works well once all the bugs are worked out of it. The price on these have come way down now and you can get them for a real good deal now...even better than I paid.

On the negative side....they take what seems to be a large amount of time to get them running properly. If you don't have time to play with it every day or evening it starts becoming a real pain in the but. I have to be out of town for a few days at a time so it's hard to constantly be messing with this thing. Also, so far once you seem to get one thing nailed down something else starts going out of wack. Also, they are a little on the loud side with the fan pushing the air out. With a smaller place you might be able to run it on a much lower setting so that might not be a big factor for you.

So overall if you are home every night and have time to "tinker" with the thing it's a pretty good buy I think. If you want something you can just throw pellets in and walk away never thinking twice about it...I would look at something else.

With all that...this forum has been great!! And the guys on here are really really helpful and go out of their way to reach out and help us guys in need. Just my two cents.

Okay got the igniter working now. Pulled all fuses (they all looked fine) and connectors to motherboard. Re-connected everything put the fuses back in and followed wires as far as I could. Fired it up and now the right igniter is back on hot and glowing. Something must have been loose I guess or I don't know what.

At any rate....back in action for now. Fingers crossed. Thanks again for all the support guys.

Jame

Thanks guys. I have verified all the fuses are good.

So now I am trying to determine which wires are the leads to the igniter so I can make sure they are connected well and not bad.

Will keep working on it and let you guys know if I find anything. Keep any thoughts coming....MUCH APPRECIATED TO EVERYONE!!!

Okay....have confirmed now it is in fact a bad right igniter with some help from firend!!!

Never would have thought it would be since it starts up really quick still with only the left one working.

Plus the fact that it's brand new without even a ton of pellets run in it yet.

Now for some reason I am back to 2/3 blinkers again ...but I guess I just need to tweak the dials again to get that set up.

Anyone changed an igniter before?? Easy or difficult??

Thanks to all for the input as well. Read all links and info you guys posted...much appreciated.

So we gave our almost new Maxfire 120 a good cleaning and put it all back together and turned it one. Made some funny noises and started running with a #2 and #7 lights blinking.

Shut it down. Unplugged for 10 min. Plugged in and waited for it to stop doing anything. Turned back on and it started up seemingly fine except for the #2 and #7 lights. It runs good with the lights blinking but only for about 20 minutes. After that the fire fades down to almost nothing.

I have tried completely shutting down...unplugging..replugging..and running 3 times now. The same result each time. Starts great (with 2/7 blink)...runs great for 15-20 min great....then fades to nothing (on setting 6). The other funny thing is that when I push the off button to shut it down after it's almost out...the starts running great again for several minutes before it shuts down.

Can't figure this thing out...I am so frustrated. I have not even run one full ton of pellets in this thing yet and it's just giving my trouble at every corner.

For the record I do not think it's an igniter. It's something with the burn pot. At one point when it was shut down I took it all apart again and the dump arm was in the open position not closed like it should have been. But that was the only indication of anything and that was several attempts to run ago. Now it looks it the correct position every time and still #2/7 lights and no good fire after 20 minutes. I have tried increasing feed but is not doing anything to help it.

Anyone with any ideas or help out there?? Thanks guys.

Blume....really you don't run positive on the exhaust at all??? What are you usually running on your feed and at what level???

Stermer...

When you say you have to have the door open...so you mean because it's putting out so much heat??? Or do you mean the actual door on the bixby??

Also what part of the country are you in???

Unless your in a warmer part of the country I just dont get that kind of heat from mine. It has been in the low 30's lately and I have to run it on level 6 to get the basement warmed up (bixby is in basement about 1000 sq ft)??

If you turn the heat up let me know what temps you have and what your level your on would ya?

blume98 wrote:


Blume....

Email sent to you. It's on setting B for pellets. Dealer fired up and got an ops check on the stove before I picked it up and he had it to B. He is telling me to just keep tinkering with it and that the thermocouple could be to new so it's super sensitive. I don't know. He says with a good soot build up it will settle down...but I don't want to just dumb all the sensors down with soot so I don't have to look at blinking anymore. Don't know..I need to regroup with all your guys info.

rona wrote:


Rona...

Thanks. I think I will need to take you up on the cable and bixcheck. I am a pretty patient guy I think...but I have been trying at this thing for days and I am getting pretty thin I admit.

I did hear that turning down convection fan would make it quieter, but I either read or the dealer told me if I did that it would make it much less efficient and most of the heat would be blown out the exhaust. What would "you" classify as the the trade off turning down the convection fan for less noise but loosing????

Our exhaust is about the same..I come up 6 inches and then straight out 3 feet from the house. Although I think I am going to add another foot as it's getting the gutter and siding kind of black.

With those settings (level 4, +20 ex, -10 feed) what kind of heat are you producing and what have your temperatures been outside??

And thanks for all the helpful info.

Corny wrote:


Corny....Thanks for the warm welcome.

I am pretty sure it's a 120. That's supposedly what I was being sold by the dealer. My control knobs are as follows from top to bottom....

spare, exhaust, feed, ash dump freq, convection fan, fuel aux (set to , bixcheck and thermostat port.

I think you ment do I have the ash dump frequency trim knob..and if so yet I do. So I am still thinking I have a 120....but you probably would know better so if I don't let me know.

Glad to hear about the fans. I was reading on the forums that it was kind of noisy, but I didn't know if it ment that noisy!! It sounds like its just a function of the air it moves. We can live with it I think I maybe just wanted to make sure I didn't have something abnormal. There's no metal clanging...just a loud fan noise with some vibrations once in a while.

I was not waiting as long as you indicated to adjust trim knobs. The dealer said to give it awhile like 30-40 minutes so I was waiting like an hour or two before adjusting. Then I would only adjust about a third of a notch at a time. But I could never get it bunging good without the 2/3 blinking. I guess I will have to go even slower..but honestly the frustration is killing me. I finally just shut the thing off this afternoon.

Hello everyone.

We bought a new Bixby 120 about a month ago. (seriel #10047 date of Dec 2007)

I have been trying and trying to get this thing dialed in with no success.

I am in mid Michigan and the temps have been in the mid 40's during the day...I have been trying to get it dialed in at level 4 and burning ProPellets.

No matter what I do I get a 2/3 blink. Which is supposed to be lean. I have tried for days and gone through tens of pages of forums and I still can't get it to quit. They will blink for a couple minutes...then go out for a couple...on...then out...and so on. All day long. I try and make small corrections to one knob, but to no avail. Either it ends up filling the pot with pellets (still blinking) or there is never any build up of pellets at all in the burn pot (and still blinking).

I have thrown my hands up and started over at 0/0 twice..and still can't get it. I have cleaned it out one time after about a weeks worth of burning...in total we have about 2-3 weeks of burning on it (we don't burn it when we are not at home..not until I get it dialed in).

Flame for the most part seems to be pretty lively I think. The only real thing I could note is that it seems to sometimes be blowing from one side of the pot or another, as it circulation were causing the flames to blow more to the left or right.

Is there anyone who can help me out there with some suggestions. I am getting really frustrated at this point.

Thanks.

(also...does everyones run so loud??? I mean fan wise....just seems to be a little on the loud side)