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Subject Topic: Truma water heater on gas
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22/8/2013 at 9:08pm
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Hi can anyone help. Our avondale 2009 caravan does not have hot water on gas. It works fine on electric, but when it comes to gas it fails. It's clicks on then clicks off to show a fault. We've had it serviced and still can't get it working. We've called truma and they advised a full descaler, which we've done and still not working. The previous owner never used it on gas. Can anyone suggest what could be wrong. The flap is off when using gas. Gas heater works.


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22/8/2013 at 9:15pm
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If you have had the caravan serviced and still can't get it working then ask the service engineer what's wrong with it. That's what you're paying for isn't it?


24/8/2013 at 1:40pm
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I'm with Tango55 on this. If it was serviced the final part of a service is to ensure everything is working properly?


24/8/2013 at 3:05pm
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Ours has always done this on first trying to light it, but a second or third attmpt always succeeds. I put it down to having had the gas turned off and a bit of air gettinginto the system.

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25/8/2013 at 12:43pm
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Couple of thoughts - do you take the cover off the vent? Ours didn't work properly on the last trip out - the red light came on - but I found that by switching it on while running the hot tap cleared it so presume there was an air lock.

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25/8/2013 at 1:51pm
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Hi Susy, there may well be a fuse blown on the printed circuit control board, it happened to me once.

It's accessed by taking the plastic cover off of the top of the hot water tank, you should see it down one side.  Do make sure the  mains electric supply is disconnected (although I think the fuse is on the 12 volt side.) From memory it's a 20 mm glass fuse about 500 or 600 milliamps. Good luck.

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27/8/2013 at 9:19am
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Thanks for all your replies. we have tested the fuse thats fine. have cleaned out the pipe to make sure no spiders ect. we have found that at certain times it starts up on 30 deg but as soon as it gets to temperature it cuts off. we seem to think it might be either the circuit board or the thermostat.


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27/8/2013 at 10:14am
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Quote: Originally posted by Susyq2it on 27/8/2013
Thanks for all your replies. we have tested the fuse thats fine. have cleaned out the pipe to make sure no spiders ect. we have found that at certain times it starts up on 30 deg but as soon as it gets to temperature it cuts off. we seem to think it might be either the circuit board or the thermostat.

electric or gas it is designed to switch off at full temperature about 60 degs,then switch on and off at will to maintain the hot water or whatever setting you have it on.


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