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dvitale300
Explorer
Dec 06, 2016

Need some help - going on a trip Thursday (well maybe)

Hi - going on a trip Thursday. I have a Starcraft 28BHS (2015). It has a 6 gal Atwood gas water heater. I can get the heater to kick on and run for 20 minutes (sometimes), but not a lot of hot wa...
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theoldwizard1
Explorer II
Dec 06, 2016
Artum Snowbird wrote:
My hot water heater had a heat linked fuse that sat in front of the thing. The connections to it were corroded, and that caused it to not work. While the idea of having a burner fire to cause the link to melt was perfectly fine if it shut off the propane valve, the wire to the fusible link failed at the connection.. and caused my strife.

My son-in-law and I carefully checked all connections with a 12V test light. Re-seating the switches did the trick.

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