Water Heater Help
Hello All,
Looking for thoughts here before scheduling 2 months out and taking to the dealer. We have a 2018 Outback that we've owned for nearly 2 years. We do very little camping where we don't have at least electric so we have only run the propane portion of the water heater a few times. Our camper has the option to have both electric and propane running at the same time. Recently I tried that because 5 of us were trying to get showers after swimming and the propane portion was acting up. I've had trailers for 20 years and had water heaters die, but this one is acting strange.
So when we activate the propane section the first time it tried 3 times to light and then stopped. Let it sit for a while and on the next time it did light but then went out after about 3-4 minutes of running. We have had 2 more camping trips since then and I've tried it again on each trip with similar results. Sometimes it will not light at all even on the 3rd set of 3 tries. Other times it will light and go right out. And sometimes it will light and run for 5+ minutes and then go out. I looked for obvious things like cob webs, mouse nests, etc and it looks pretty clean. Any thoughts on 1- what would make it not light and 2- what would make it go out even when it has a strong flame?
Not sure what the warranty is on this thing but would prefer to fix it myself if that is possible.
Thanks all!
Looking for thoughts here before scheduling 2 months out and taking to the dealer. We have a 2018 Outback that we've owned for nearly 2 years. We do very little camping where we don't have at least electric so we have only run the propane portion of the water heater a few times. Our camper has the option to have both electric and propane running at the same time. Recently I tried that because 5 of us were trying to get showers after swimming and the propane portion was acting up. I've had trailers for 20 years and had water heaters die, but this one is acting strange.
So when we activate the propane section the first time it tried 3 times to light and then stopped. Let it sit for a while and on the next time it did light but then went out after about 3-4 minutes of running. We have had 2 more camping trips since then and I've tried it again on each trip with similar results. Sometimes it will not light at all even on the 3rd set of 3 tries. Other times it will light and go right out. And sometimes it will light and run for 5+ minutes and then go out. I looked for obvious things like cob webs, mouse nests, etc and it looks pretty clean. Any thoughts on 1- what would make it not light and 2- what would make it go out even when it has a strong flame?
Not sure what the warranty is on this thing but would prefer to fix it myself if that is possible.
Thanks all!
