After not camping for one summer and part of the next, we got the Eagle on the road.
I ran the camper on 110v AC the night before, letting the refrigerator (Dometic RM 2193)
get cold.
When we got the campground, i went to run the refrigerator on propane. Seemed to fire
up fine and cool well. However, when I went to check a bit later, I could see a puff of
yellow flame coming out from around the gray metal shield (where the peep hole for the pilot
light is). I shut down, took the shield off, relit.
Watching the thing work, about every 5 minutes, flame spread to the round hole in the square
metal tube leading to the burner. Running on medium or low, versus high on the dial setting
made the flame around the square tube more frequent. Letting in run longer, made the flame
more frequent. Eventually all the black insulation or boot on the igniter wire was burned off
and flame was often extending outside the metal shield.
So I shut the unit down.
Looking for suggestions on how to proceed to diagnose the problem and fix it.
Thanks. On the plus side the fall foliage on Cape Cod is really good and the temperature
outside hit 79 deg F today as we drove away from the camp site.
2009 Eagle on a 2006 Tacoma
I ran the camper on 110v AC the night before, letting the refrigerator (Dometic RM 2193)
get cold.
When we got the campground, i went to run the refrigerator on propane. Seemed to fire
up fine and cool well. However, when I went to check a bit later, I could see a puff of
yellow flame coming out from around the gray metal shield (where the peep hole for the pilot
light is). I shut down, took the shield off, relit.
Watching the thing work, about every 5 minutes, flame spread to the round hole in the square
metal tube leading to the burner. Running on medium or low, versus high on the dial setting
made the flame around the square tube more frequent. Letting in run longer, made the flame
more frequent. Eventually all the black insulation or boot on the igniter wire was burned off
and flame was often extending outside the metal shield.
So I shut the unit down.
Looking for suggestions on how to proceed to diagnose the problem and fix it.
Thanks. On the plus side the fall foliage on Cape Cod is really good and the temperature
outside hit 79 deg F today as we drove away from the camp site.
2009 Eagle on a 2006 Tacoma