Propane Issue?
I had my 2014 Fleetwood Storm Class A RV out this past weekend and two things happened that made me stop and pause. I do not know if these are issues or need further investigation, so I wanted to get some thoughts on the problem. As a back ground, I bought the RV used this year about 4 months ago, so my history is with the RV is limited.
First thing I noticed, my wife had turned on the hot water heater and I happened to be standing on the side of the RV where I could hear and see the heater spark and light the propane. It flamed up beautifully. About 30 seconds later, the flames went out and it started sparking to light again and it did. It went out one more time, relit and kept working. Had I not been outside, I would have not known there was even an issue and we got plenty of hot water. We have used the hot water heater a couple of times before. What would cause such behavior? Air in the line when first starting up? I don't think that is normal behavior.
Second thing, is the over pilot light would not stay lit. I have to manually light it and I have done that once before with perfect success. I kept holding in the knob and putting the aim in flame in the right location. Every once in a while I would get the faintest of flames holding for about 3-5 seconds (while still holding in the pilot position), but then it would go out again even while still holding the knob in. I ended up pushing the knob past the pilot and lighting it that way, but again what would cause such a problem?
I have propane at home, so I'm not completely ignorant of how the gas works, but it pretty much works at home. And I got pretty good at relighting the pilot light on the gas water heater when it started going belly up a few years back until we replaced it.
Any thought or ideas would be appreciated.
First thing I noticed, my wife had turned on the hot water heater and I happened to be standing on the side of the RV where I could hear and see the heater spark and light the propane. It flamed up beautifully. About 30 seconds later, the flames went out and it started sparking to light again and it did. It went out one more time, relit and kept working. Had I not been outside, I would have not known there was even an issue and we got plenty of hot water. We have used the hot water heater a couple of times before. What would cause such behavior? Air in the line when first starting up? I don't think that is normal behavior.
Second thing, is the over pilot light would not stay lit. I have to manually light it and I have done that once before with perfect success. I kept holding in the knob and putting the aim in flame in the right location. Every once in a while I would get the faintest of flames holding for about 3-5 seconds (while still holding in the pilot position), but then it would go out again even while still holding the knob in. I ended up pushing the knob past the pilot and lighting it that way, but again what would cause such a problem?
I have propane at home, so I'm not completely ignorant of how the gas works, but it pretty much works at home. And I got pretty good at relighting the pilot light on the gas water heater when it started going belly up a few years back until we replaced it.
Any thought or ideas would be appreciated.
