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What Type of Gas Fireplace Do I Have? Vent Type, Ignition and Model Number
To order the right part or follow the right repair guide, you need three facts about your gas fireplace: how it vents, how it lights, and the brand and model on its rating plate. A flashlight and five minutes will find all three: one look outside, one behind the lower...
Skytech and American Flame AF-4000 Troubleshooting: Remotes, Receivers and Beep Codes
Skytech makes aftermarket remotes for gas fireplaces, stoves and gas logs. Its American Flame line makes gas log valve kits and the AF-4000 electronic ignition control used in AFVK-SP log kits and some factory fireplaces. A Skytech remote switches your fireplace's own valve; an AF-4000 is the ignition control itself....
SIT Proflame 2 Troubleshooting: IFC Blink Codes, Beeps and Fixes
SIT Proflame 2 is SIT's remote and electronic ignition system built around the IFC (Integrated Fireplace Control): a 120-volt board with battery backup that sparks the pilot, proves the flame, opens the SIT Proflame gas valve and runs flame height, fan and lights from a 315 MHz remote. It is...
SIT Proflame 1 Troubleshooting: GT/GTM Remotes, Receivers and DFC Boards
SIT Proflame 1 is SIT's original Proflame remote system, the GT series: a handheld transmitter and a separate battery-powered receiver wired to the gas valve. It comes in two kinds of fireplace: millivolt units with a standing pilot and a SIT 820 or 829 NOVA mV valve, and electronic-ignition units...
SIT 820 Nova Millivolt Valve Troubleshooting
The SIT 820 Nova mV is a millivolt gas valve for standing pilot gas fireplaces, log sets and space heaters. The pilot burns all the time and its thermopile powers the valve, so the fireplace works without house power. Your fireplace's parts list may give the valve under the fireplace...
Robertshaw and Dexen Standing Pilot Valve Troubleshooting
Robertshaw and Dexen make low-capacity millivolt gas valves for standing pilot fireplaces and gas logs. Empire, for example, fits a Dexen millivolt valve to its VFSR vent-free log burners, and we carry Dexen / Robertshaw replacement valves under several part numbers (listed below). The pilot's thermopile powers the valve, so...
Mertik Maxitrol GV60 Troubleshooting: Beep Codes, Pairing and Pilot Checks
The Mertik Maxitrol GV60 is a battery-powered remote ignition system with three parts: a GV60 gas valve, a G6R receiver that sparks the pilot and drives the valve's flame motor, and a G6R handset. It is used in Empire VFSE vent-free log sets (2022 manual) and VFIU Loft burners, Valor...
IntelliFire Troubleshooting: IntelliFire Plus and IntelliFire Touch Codes, Pairing and Parts
IntelliFire is the electronic ignition Hearth & Home Technologies (HHT) builds into the gas fireplaces and inserts it sells as Heat & Glo, Heatilator, Quadra-Fire, Majestic and Monessen. Three generations are in homes today: the original IntelliFire, IntelliFire Plus (RC300-style remotes) and IntelliFire Touch (touchscreen RC400 or RC450). They light...
How to Test a Fireplace Thermocouple and Thermopile (Millivolt Readings)
A standing pilot (millivolt) gas fireplace runs on power made by its own pilot flame. The thermocouple holds the gas valve's safety magnet open so the pilot stays lit, and the thermopile powers the valve that lights the main burner when you flip the wall switch or press the remote....
Honeywell and SIT 630 EuroSIT Fireplace Valve Troubleshooting
This guide covers three gas valve families: Honeywell millivolt valves (VS8420, VS8510, VS8520, VS820), Honeywell SmartValve electronic controls (SV9401 to SV9403 and SV9501 to SV9503), and the SIT 630 EuroSIT standing-pilot thermostat valve. Honeywell valves are found in Superior and Lennox Hearth fireplaces, older Majestic and Vermont Castings inserts and...
Buck Stove Blower Motor: Symptoms, Which Motor Fits, and How to Replace It
The blower is the hardest-working part on a Buck Stove. It runs every hour the fire does, sits in the hottest air in the house and pulls dust through itself all winter. When it goes, the stove still burns but the room stops warming, because the convection air that carries...
How to Identify Your Buck Stove Model (and Find the Right Parts)
Buck Stove has been building wood and gas stoves in Spruce Pine, North Carolina since 1975, and a lot of the early ones are still running. That is good news for the owner and a problem when something breaks: the model number decides which glass, blower or gasket fits, and...
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SIT 820 Nova Millivolt Valve Troubleshooting
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