Water Heater pilot light will not stay lit?
I have a 92 Layton 5th wheel and the pilot light on the water heater will not stay lit. I changed the thermo couple, but the only one that I could find had a 18 inch wire on it. The original one had ...
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Joe417 wrote:
If the thermocouple in question is like the one in the picture, it is a bulb type and the "wire" is not a wire but a copper tube. You can't crimp the tube too sharply or it won't transfer pressure to the control.
It has to fit the control and be installed snuggly.
What did you do with the extra 8 inches of thermocouple?
That's a standard thermocouple- no pressure at all. I did a write up of this type on this RV.net blog post- pictures of an Atwood, but the Suburban is functionally identical. While the copper is a tube, it is an electrical conductor- not a pressure tube.
