Water heating

[Gussieboy365]

Hi I have just bought my first motor home it is a Fiat Ducato Carioca656 2008 model need some advice on how to heat the water is it dual heater or gas only help please

 

[Landy Andy]

Put a picture of your controls up and then we will be able to talk you through what is required.
this may help.

 

[Boris7]

What he said, and welcome

 

[Gussieboy365]

These are the controls

 

[Clivefog]

Going from the icons I'd say electric only. Truma use a large and small flame icon for gas. Open to be proven wrong. The other control is the habitation one and has no influence on the boiler.

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[DandG5515]

Habitation panel is same as ours, nothing to do with boiler apart from water pump on off

The boiler control is an older version to ours. Guess is it's like ours gas only combi boiler. 40 & 60 is water temp with central heating on. Central grey knob is thermostat for blown air heating. Hope that helps.

 

[autorouter]

I'd say it's not a dual gas/electric type, but single-fuel type. If it was dual fuel ther'd be another switch control somewhere. I'd further speculate that it's gas only. Usually these boilers/heaters are gas-only, with mains elements added as an extra. Or not, in this case.

Easy to check. Isolate the gas and see if it still works. Unplug the EHU and see if it still works.

 

[Landy Andy]

Agree with what those above have written. Gas only and button has three settings.
50 degree water
Off
70 degree water.

 

[gus-lopez]

These are the controls

same as mine Qhat Landy Andy said. To operate. make sure gas valve to bolier is on. Make sure there is no outside cover over the balanced flue pipe. Then all you do is press in top so it is on 50ºc. couple of seconds you should here a click as the solenoid opens. If it fires up you will have no idea unless you go outside & sniff the exhaust to tell if it is hot.Whereas if it fails a red light will come on below the 70º side. If red light comes on turn back to the central "off" position then back to 50ºc assuming you have gas it should light after the second go possibly might need 3. After that I would be checking other things.
normally once it fires then it will light first time evry time assuming it doesn't need cleaning.
**you can start on 70º if you want. no difference apart from water temperature

 

[Off da Grid]

Also make sure the window is closed behind the drivers seat as there is a switch on the window that stops the boiler from lighting if it’s open.
Our 2011 trigano tribute has a secondary electric boiler under the bench seat

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