Truma water heater (1 Viewer)

[womblevra]

Just bought a hobby 750gelc, it's got a Truma Trumatic unit in it.
The instruction manual is for both the C6002 and the C4002, I'm not exactly sure what one I've got. (as far as I can tell, mine is gas only).
The heating part is working fine, and I have hot water, but when I set it to heating and water to 60 degrees, the heating light stays green, but the, hot water light stayed Amber, even after 3 hours.
The water is getting VERY hot, what happens is quite strange, if we leave the heater/water setting to 60, then the orange light will not go out, and the van starts to get that "smell" of things getting too hot.

So then i turn the thing completely off, and on again and the light is out.

So it makes me think that some sort of cut-out switch is not operating when the water gets to 60
Am I missing something obvious?

i took it to Brownhills, who agreed that there was a fault, possibly with the thermostat.

(incidentally they left us sitting. waiting for over 2 1/2 hours for a 2 min discussion, then charged us £21 - Guess where we won't be buying our next van)

 

[maz]

Hi. I've got a Hobby 750 but it's fitted with a different Truma boiler to yours.

Did you buy it from Brownhills? If so, surely they should sort the problem under warranty? :Confused:

 

[womblevra]

No bought it privately its 2007 reg

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[maz]

Ah ok, I misinterpreted the Brownhills reference. :Blush:

It might be worth doing a search of these forums as I think there have been a number of threads about Truma boilers and 'burning' smells.

Hope you soon get it sorted so that you can enjoy your van properly.

 

[Philcott]

I know the link is not for Truma, but maybe you can glean some sort of information from here?

http://www.arcsystems.biz/

 

[movan]

Might be a daft question, but have you taken the outside cover off the water heater vent?

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[womblevra]

Might be a daft question, but have you taken the outside cover off the water heater vent?

Haven`t touched it?

Why?
should I?

 

[Phill D]

if its got a plastic cover on outside vent it will not lite!!!

you need to remove for use and replace for travelin or not in use

 

[womblevra]

No its lighting fine just not shutting off when water reaches temp.
Heating side working fine
If I turn it off when water is hot and immediately switch it on then light indicating water heating stays out and all is okay which suggests a thermostat or similar problem?

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[maz]

If I turn it off when water is hot and immediately switch it on then light indicating water heating stays out and all is okay which suggests a thermostat or similar problem?

Well if it's not under warranty I'd get it checked out by a motorhome service engineer. I can recommend a very good one in the Peterborough area but that's a bit of a way from Rickmansworth. Who do you usually use?

 

[womblevra]

Probably be Elite near Banbury

 

[maz]

Probably be Elite near Banbury

Ok, so still quite a way to have to travel. :Sad:

There's a list of mobile engineers at: Link Removed

Or you could maybe post asking for engineer recommendations in the Rickmansworth area.

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[JeanLuc]

Here is the link to the Truma website page where you can locate dealers and engineers. In the middle of the page is a link to download a pdf listing trained mobile dealers.

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