Atwood water heater won't light

dougrainer wrote:

Ralph Cramden wrote:

dougrainer wrote:
1. There is no problem with Suburban boards. Just because you had a problem does not mean out of millions of boards there is a problem
2. Yes, there is a problem with Atwood Water Heater boards. As of 9/1/2018, most distributors should have the updated boards. The problem is, Atwood has/had no way of determining which boards are defective. Originally, back in July, we were instructed by Atwood to get ALL replacement boards from the Manufacturing facility in Greenbriar, Tenn. Atwood knew that those boards were the new updated. ALL the distributors until 9/1/2018 would have the suspect bad boards. THAT is why there are multiple failures on the same water heater. It took a few months last spring for Atwood to realize they had a problem. Once they realized it during the summer they let Service centers know and instructed for boards to come from Greenbriar. Even the boards the OEM RV makers had in their parts dept were bad. Doug

Of course there are no problems with Suburban igniter boards.

I cannot remember the last time I replaced a Suburban Water heater board. There is no common failure of Suburban Boards. They do fail but it is extremely rare. Doug

I have personally replaced at least 6 Suburban boards for others in the last year to year and a half, and its just a hobby for me. Now my own crapped the bed on our 2017 built April of 16. One thing I know is if you replace it with a Dinosaur youll probably never replace it again. The Suburban boards I have replaced all hot spotted in the exact same printed circuit.

If you go on some othet RV boards (pun intended) like FRF, you can find plenty of posts about failing Suburban boards.