How does this fan work correctly? What step am I missing or is there a piece missing from the box.

Replace the fan

most grills are two piece with the front piece being attached either by clips (4) or 1 at the bottom with the top part prongs sliding down into slots
the older models had 4 screws holding them together
the center nut holding the fan on is a left hand thread so you will do it up to get it to undo

read the owner's manual to find all the pieces. I'm sure you're missing a part

ps,, DO NOT use this grill again until you have it repaired correctly.

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If the tube you're referring to is the burner tube, that is connected to the gas valve/regulator? The hole you're seeing is the the Venturi Valve. It mixes air to gas, which allows it to burn cleanly and have a blue flame, rather than a yellow flame.

Hope this helped you and Happy Grilling!! Thanks for choosing FixYa.

You cannot with the clips... its impossible.. wound up breaking the clips... and STILL cannot get grill off. Don't ever by a Vornado if you cannot clean it!

Presumably you have the grill connected to your 120v house power via an extension cord to the electrical box attached on the outside rear of the grill.

And that is where your rotisserie is plugged in, into one of the two available outlets at that same electrical box.

The other outlet is meant for the hood light, which connects via a pigtail from the little transformer inside rear of the grille. (If that connection is made and the light still does not work, check the bulb for burnout.)

Does the ignitor work? You probably already know this from reading the manual, but there is an AA battery which powers the ignitor--not the 120v system. Unscrew the cap on the ignitor button and ensure a new alkaline AA battery is installed correctly, put - (negative) side of battery in first.

Hope this helps!

The two "V" springs on the grill/globe need to be squeezed together and both pieces of one spring are run through one hole and the same for the other side. But it can bite!!
Be sure to keep the grill/globe pulled down so just the hooks of the springs are inside the fan chassis/box. Push the grill/globe upwards. As the springs go through the hole the will spread out and that action is what holds the grill/globe in place.

check to see if there is an interlock switch activated when the grill is correctly fitted take off and refit

It sounds like you?re an experienced hardware guy so I won?t bore you with the basics. When I?ve gotten stuck on a new motherboard no-booting problem these steps have helped me: -Make this as basic a machine as possible. You don?t need much of anything to get the POST to display and anything else just adds more variables. -double check the processor and memory, ensure they are correct for the board. Make sure the manual is the correct one for your board. -Try setting the BIOS to the manufacturers ?Safe? settings or default settings. You might even want to pull the backup battery out, unplug the power supply and let it set for 30 minutes to void the BIOS settings. -Verify the power supply is working correctly, preferably with a power supply tester. If you can?t then try putting this power supply in another computer to make sure it not only turns fans on but really supplies the correct voltage needed to make things work. -Buy or borrow a pre-boot test card. This is a diagnostic card that plugs into a PCI slot of your PC and will give you a much better diagnosis of what is going on. You can usually pick one up for about $35. - Make sure your CPU fan is plugged into the right motherboard connector, the newer boards will check for the CPU fan. I would suspect that if this were the case you would see something on the screen but you never know. Last but not least you might actually have a defective board. Granted it doesn?t happen too often but I?ve had two or three dead out of the box over the past few years. Chances are if you?ve gone thorough all of this and relate the steps to Tyan support they will send you a replacement. And if the new board does the same thing then you only have two remaining variables left; CPU and memory. Good luck and if you have any other questions please let us know.