Atwood Water Heater Strange Problem
I live in Wyoming where the humidity is low, 10-35% in the summer. We just got back from a trip to Iowa where the humidity was 80-99%. The water heater would not light (it is DSI) at all. Came home ...
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I would guess that the high humidity compromised the ceramic insulator allowing the high voltage spark to jump to ground someplace other than the spark gap at the burner. Also could be a weakness in the wire insulation leading to the igniter. Setting the spark gap to the smallest that will work may help.
