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8:42 am
June 18, 2013
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Teaspoon
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Post edited 5:04 pm – June 18, 2013 by Teaspoon
Last weekend when I camped I noticed my water heater wouldnt stay lit. Pilot light kept going out, in the middle of a heat up. I lit the pilot light, it would fire the burner, run for a couple of minutes then poof, nothing. I re lit…rang for a few more minutes then out again. This happened three times until finally it seemed to run long enough to heat the water to normal operating temperture. I checked my propane level when I got home and its almost full, so low gas couldnt be the culprit..any ideas on what I should look into? Its an atwood 5 gallon, manual light.
Thanks
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10:49 am
June 19, 2013
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punkozuna
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Does the pilot stay lit on it's own? I believe that there's a temperature feedback element of some sort (thermocouple?) that tells the unit that the pilot is lit so it doesn't just spew gas when there's no flame.
That could be malfunctioning. If so, I've no idea how easy it would be to replace the unit.
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2:03 pm
June 19, 2013
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Teaspoon
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Well I tried lighting the heater when I got home and it seems to be working fine, but I didnt stand there for 15 minutes to heat the entire 6 gallons. I will have to wait till next camping trip to see if the problem continues. I did notice when lighting it this last time the pilot light was blue instead of orange like it was at the campsite, which leads me to believe there was on obstruction that has now cleared. Thankyou for your suggestion and hopefully the problem resolved itself.
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2:24 pm
June 21, 2013
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ron_sue
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Post edited 2:13 am – June 25, 2013 by ron_sue
i had something like that. i had ran out of gas and taken the bottle off and replaced it with a new one. evidently you have to slowly turn the gas on or the rush of gas makes the bottle think it has a major leak and shuts off the gas. just a thought.. google propane flow restrictor
here is a link to a very in depth article about the subject
http://home.earthlink.net/~der…../id44.html
about half way down it talks about the flow restrictors on the cylinders.
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