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guidocat
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Feb 03, 2015

Atwood furnace with intermittent lockout and NO ACCESS DOOR!

So we are fulltiming in a Keystone Impact 300 toyhauler and having a wonderful time. We have survived a lovely summer and a few weeks well below 0.

A day or two ago we started waking up to freezing cold and finding that we had to power cycle the thermostat to get the furnace to run. Eventually, the furnace developed a habit of only starting maybe 1 out of 3 attempts.

When the furnace would fail it would do this specifically. The thermostat would ask the furnace to start making heat. The blower turns on and there is NO click of the igniter. The blower shuts off after 15-20 seconds and goes into lockout. Cycling the power allows it to try this again.

Once the furnace ignites it will run for hours if the temperature is set to 100 without missing a beat.

By the way, it is super cold outside, and it seems to get a little better as it warms up outside.

So, any ideas? And if the suggestion is to look at/probe/test a thing, how the heck am i supposed to get to it without an access panel!?!?

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  • Welcome to RV.net!
    Do you have the model of the furnace?
    Are you connected to shore power or running on battery power?
    Sounds like the sail switch is not closing to turn on ignitor circuit.