Arctic Fox 811 Suburban Water Heater No-Light
Hey all, My Suburban water heater won’t light ......no igniter clicks.....totally silent. I’ve had this camper for 11 years and the WH has always lit and performed flawlessly. Now....I found that the...
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OK....Problem solved! When I was working on this thing In my pole barn I failed to see that there is a second reset button. Then button on the right is the reset for the 12V side of the heater ........I flat out did not see it!! The button on the left is for the 110V side of the heater.....that’s the only one that I saw as we had a power outage at my house for over 15 hours and I just was working with a flash light in a very dark barn, also the the camper was not on my truck and lowered all the way down and the 12V button is under the small sheet metal shield below the pressure relief valve.
Today I loaded up the camper on the new Dually and got it outside in the sun above eye-level and what jumped up and bit me right on the butt cheeks but the second reset button.......Duh!! I hit the correct reset button, went inside to turn on the igniter, and after a5 second wait.....click...click...click and that wonderful “whoosh” sound of electricity meeting propane and oxygen. COOL!!
With that admission of guilt aside I’d like to thank all of you that offered assistance and even schematics. I’ve always said that we should all learn something new everyday and today I was humbled. I hope that this small lesson can be utilized by someone else and the big thing to be learned is DONT LEAVE YOUR WATER HEATER’S ON/ IGNITOR BUTTON IN THE ON POSITION WHEN YOUR’RE NOT USING IT.........:S
Thanks Again,
TG
