dvleemin
Apr 22, 2014Explorer
Odd LP leak issue
OK,
I have an odd LP leak issue in my '05 Itasca Horizon 40AD.
I took it out for the first trip for 10 days and got home yesterday. We got home and about 5 hours later I heard the LP alarm going off. I muted it and it came back on again so I ran the microwave fan and then it went off. A few hours later the alarm was back on.
The only think that I could think of that changed was that I turned off the hot water heater LP heater during the drive. So I turned it back on, ran the fan again for a while, and after that the LP alarm has not gone off. So this leads me to believe that even when there is no pilot to the hot water tank that propane is still leaking.
This brings up a couple of questions though:
- does this make sense? When I turn off propane at the tank, the water heater tries to start 2 or 3 times but then shuts itself off. So wouldn't that mean the shut off valve is working?
- The water heater is facing the outside, so how could a leak there actually get into the inside of the rv to set off the alarm.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Darryl
I have an odd LP leak issue in my '05 Itasca Horizon 40AD.
I took it out for the first trip for 10 days and got home yesterday. We got home and about 5 hours later I heard the LP alarm going off. I muted it and it came back on again so I ran the microwave fan and then it went off. A few hours later the alarm was back on.
The only think that I could think of that changed was that I turned off the hot water heater LP heater during the drive. So I turned it back on, ran the fan again for a while, and after that the LP alarm has not gone off. So this leads me to believe that even when there is no pilot to the hot water tank that propane is still leaking.
This brings up a couple of questions though:
- does this make sense? When I turn off propane at the tank, the water heater tries to start 2 or 3 times but then shuts itself off. So wouldn't that mean the shut off valve is working?
- The water heater is facing the outside, so how could a leak there actually get into the inside of the rv to set off the alarm.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.
Darryl