Heat problem

[Joezilla]

We pulled into the Escapees Deming, NM park for the night. Got unhooked from the truck, leveled, plugged into electricity, and sewer. It is supposed to get to 27 degrees here tonight so we did not hook up the water.

Upon entering the coach, Debbie tried to turn on the heat. Set the thermostat to 68 degrees and nothing happened. We have plenty of propane. There are no error messages on the display. Any ideas on what I can try?

Being such a small backwater town, there are exactly zero mobile RV guys to call.

Joe

[Slow Six]

There is no info as to what unit you have. Ours is a 2011 with the Dometic system. At first I had a lot of problems programming the system (old guy). First off you have to enter in the current time on the clock before the system will do any thing. You than have to program the zone(s) and program(s) 1 &2. If it still does not work after programming checks fuses and breakers etc. I'll try to check back here and see how you made out.

[wingnut60]

I believe Joe has a late-model Tradition. I don't know what type of control they have now, but if nothing happens, then I would suspect a loose wire somewhere.

Joe,
Guess the display has power, so there is an electrical disconnect between the thermostat and the furnace--did you take the cover off the stat and see if anything is loose?

Good luck, hoping you have some space heaters with you.

Joe

[Joezilla]

I believe Joe has a late-model Tradition. I don't know what type of control they have now, but if nothing happens, then I would suspect a loose wire somewhere.

Joe,
Guess the display has power, so there is an electrical disconnect between the thermostat and the furnace--did you take the cover off the stat and see if anything is loose?

Good luck, hoping you have some space heaters with you.

Joe

Our unit is a 2012 Select Suites. It was probably the last SS #6011 produced.

The heater is a Suburban unit.

We have some space heaters with us and an electric blanket also. We'll be fine tonight.

What gets me is that we had heat last night in Van Horn, TX. The only thing that changed is a new location in Deming, NM.

It does absolutely nothing. I can set the temp, and normally, in about 30 seconds or so, it will come on. No click. No smell.

We have a full bottle of propane and the other is about 1/4 full. I tried switching the hose connections from one bottle to the other, nothing. I tried switching the regulator to the other side, nothing. The stove lights up fine so I know it is not the propane.

None of the fuses are bad. All are pushed in completely. I tried turning off all the breakers, and then turning them back on, nothing. I tried taking out the furnace fuse, the socket immediately lit up red. The fuse was fine. I put it back in and the red light went off.

The only thing that changed was our location from Van Horn, TX to Deming, NM.

Call me stumped.

Joe

[Joezilla]

Okay, doing our due diligence, we popped off the Dometic control panel off the wall to check for loose wires. The "wires" that are in the control panel is actually like a phone cord or a Cat 5 cord. This one wire/cord connects to the back of the control panel circuit board and then goes through a small hole into the bowels of the basement. I assume it is going to the furnace, and both air conditioners.

I also went out and closed both propane tanks for a minute or two, and then reopened them slowly. Nothing changed.

Totally stumped now.

Joe

[Okie]

I had the control wire vibrate loose from the furnace control board one time that gave the same problem. you can get to it from the outside panel.

Okie

[Joezilla]

I had the control wire vibrate loose from the furnace control board one time that gave the same problem. you can get to it from the outside panel.

Okie

Thanks Okie, I'll check that out in the morning.

Joe

[Joezilla]

I was able to get the local mobile tech guy (Continental Dave) to stop by and check out my heat problem. I had a restaurant meeting to go to so I left him to his work. He came and found me about an hour later and said it was fixed. It was the fan igniter board w/ fan relay. He replaced that and only charged $190 total. That was the part and his labor.

We really haven't needed the heat the past two weeks, but I am sure it will get into the 30's sometime here in southern Arizona so it is good to have it fixed.

When you are in southern Arizona and in need of RV service, I highly recommend Continental Dave.

Joe