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
OK, will try, thanks.
By the way in the interest of brevity I skipped one thing. When we came back from that trip, we got them to take a look at the unit. They did the drop test and we didn't take another trip till Labor Day weekend. The LP indicator showed full, still does.
So we head out, get to where we're going and...no hot water. The light came on as always, but the water wouldn't heat. So when we came back we told them again. So they drop tested it again. They said they couldn't find a problem. Great.
When I try the fridge on gas, it tries, then says CHECK. Shut it off, start it again and it stays on GAS. I haven't run it long but it seems to cool.
