Water heater flame help - adjustments not having any effect
I have a 02' American Standard water heater ASEDV-6SR (6 gallon DSI) I'm trying to get dialed in (used RV - history unknown).
Good news is that it's reasonably clean, starts easily, and heat works both electric or gas.
Bad news is that the flame is very large and orange. The combustion chamber is basically a 3" dia pipe that heads roughly 10" into the water heater, makes a 180deg U-turn and vents back out. The flame fires almost all the way down into this chamber and is mostly orange.
I disassembled and cleaned everything (except for gas valve). The air pipe from the gas valve into the combustion chamber is a simple 90 deg bend with a rotating vent window adjuster at the gas end. Sadly, I can close that window all the way and even block the remaining opening with my fingers, and it doesn't seem to do anything. Something else must be wrong - this is not a precisely tuned mechanism that just needs a tweak.
My stove seems to work fine - so I don't know if that says something about my propane system.
There is a 'screw' adjustment type thing on the gas valve. I have not tried touching that.
Any ideas or things I could try? Without knowing much, I'm guessing something to do with the propane side of things - or the valve and/or jet. The rest is just clunky low tech parts that aren't broken.
I could take some pics tomorrow if it would help, but it got dark quick tonight.
Good news is that it's reasonably clean, starts easily, and heat works both electric or gas.
Bad news is that the flame is very large and orange. The combustion chamber is basically a 3" dia pipe that heads roughly 10" into the water heater, makes a 180deg U-turn and vents back out. The flame fires almost all the way down into this chamber and is mostly orange.
I disassembled and cleaned everything (except for gas valve). The air pipe from the gas valve into the combustion chamber is a simple 90 deg bend with a rotating vent window adjuster at the gas end. Sadly, I can close that window all the way and even block the remaining opening with my fingers, and it doesn't seem to do anything. Something else must be wrong - this is not a precisely tuned mechanism that just needs a tweak.
My stove seems to work fine - so I don't know if that says something about my propane system.
There is a 'screw' adjustment type thing on the gas valve. I have not tried touching that.
Any ideas or things I could try? Without knowing much, I'm guessing something to do with the propane side of things - or the valve and/or jet. The rest is just clunky low tech parts that aren't broken.
I could take some pics tomorrow if it would help, but it got dark quick tonight.
