Water heater not heating
For a long time, the water heater (a Suburban SW6D) in our Chinook Concourse worked just fine. Now it doesn't heat water at all. Here's the probable build up.... At the end of June we had a long ...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Your water heater made 3 attempts at lighting off.....no main flame occurred so it 'locked out' (stopped trying and RED light came on)
The push to reset is a manual reset of the High temp t-stat. If it didn;t resetting nothing would have happened...no clicking etc. When high temp t-stat opens it shut down all operation.
SO that is NOT the problem
Problem is there is not enough propane in the line to water heater and no flow
YET!!
Need to try water heater again.
Let it click click click even if it locks out.
Then again.until flow is established thru line at water heater.
Hint......light off all stove top burners on HIGH and let them burn a minute then try water heater while stove top burners are still on (this will place a demand on Propane Regulator and establish flow thru system.)
Provided flames on burners are nice and strong/steady and blue.
AND change in elevation is NOT the issue either.
Try and post back
Hey Old-Biscuit,
Thanks so much for your FIX! We're trying to get ready for a trip & our water heater wouldn't light either. I tried cleaning the gas orifice, adjusting the burner air intake, etc. etc. I was planning on starting to clean all the electrodes 1st thing in the morning, or call the guy who used to work on our rig, or (God forbid) look for a mobile RV service guy..... then I remembered RV Net & found your post.
Perfect! Turned on all 3 burners on cooktop, clicked & clicked the dickens out of the electrodes trying to light off the gas flow (the flame, when I saw it 'trying,' but not catching earlier was a nice clean blue) and finally it caught - hooray!
I don't think I was gonna sleep, but, thanks to you, I'm a happy camper. Hope I can return the favor someday. All the best,
elkhair aka Bill
