Atwood 8531-IV-DCPL Furnace
Have an older 1999 RV. Tested furnace last week when the temps at home got down into the low 20’s. Everything was working fine. Just arrived in Indiana and went to turn it on last night and it is ligh...
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John&Joey wrote:
Hot diggty dog, you got heat.
Should have paid more attention to your home state. I leave a rig in Texas for the summer and even though I have screens, I take the extra step to wrap them with aluminum foil when I'm gone for the summer.
Seems like there is some bug that likes to mess up the jet.
We do watch them pretty close as wasps got into the compartment behind the fridge once and spiders built a web once in the burner tube for the water heater. We started putting a small jar of moth balls in those compartments when not using the RV and have not had an issue for 5 years or more. Seems the wasps don’t like the smell of moth balls either, just like the spiders.
I guess I will have to do the furnace like that too or try your idea of the aluminum foil. I just have no idea how they could of got into that burner tube since it is all sealed?
Live and learn.
