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SCVJeff
Aug 15, 2017Explorer
Is this pilot or spark start?
This happened to me on an Atwood the day before Quartzsite a few years ago and like an idiot I ran over to the local RV parts house and bought a Dino board without even looking. Now that the pressure was off I came back removed the burner and all brackets attaching it to the frame and burnished everything from the electrode, burner, flue, everything that's got a screw, back to the WH frame itself where the OEM controller gets ground when it's monitoring flame presence. The problem was corrosion that couldn't be seen (that's a flame On confirmation path) and any rise in resistance to ground from the burner will cause it to fail. I still have an unopened Dino board
This happened to me on an Atwood the day before Quartzsite a few years ago and like an idiot I ran over to the local RV parts house and bought a Dino board without even looking. Now that the pressure was off I came back removed the burner and all brackets attaching it to the frame and burnished everything from the electrode, burner, flue, everything that's got a screw, back to the WH frame itself where the OEM controller gets ground when it's monitoring flame presence. The problem was corrosion that couldn't be seen (that's a flame On confirmation path) and any rise in resistance to ground from the burner will cause it to fail. I still have an unopened Dino board
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