Douglas
Free Member
We came to use the Truma gas heater a few days ago and I could not get it to light, it has a compression igniter.
I checked that I had a spark at the connection tab on the compression unit and that was ok, I took of the inspection window and lit it manually and it worked, so I thought that it might be a problems with the cable feed to the sparking gap but as the access to that was under the MH I decided to just leave the heater running put it back together and sort it another day.
After 3 or 4 hours the heater was not needed so I turned it off and out of curiosity tried to light it again and it worked!!!
I have come to the conclusion that as it was 6 or 7 months since it was last used some muck or metal corrosion has fallen on the sparking rod and interfered with the spark and the flames had burnt away what ever was coursing the problem.
Doug...
I checked that I had a spark at the connection tab on the compression unit and that was ok, I took of the inspection window and lit it manually and it worked, so I thought that it might be a problems with the cable feed to the sparking gap but as the access to that was under the MH I decided to just leave the heater running put it back together and sort it another day.
After 3 or 4 hours the heater was not needed so I turned it off and out of curiosity tried to light it again and it worked!!!
I have come to the conclusion that as it was 6 or 7 months since it was last used some muck or metal corrosion has fallen on the sparking rod and interfered with the spark and the flames had burnt away what ever was coursing the problem.
Doug...