01-25-2013, 08:04 AM
Gang,
I am at Newell and last night my heat did not work. It was 35F outside and the best I could do inside was 62F. Brrrrr. (I know some of you live in cold places where 62F is short sleeve weather). Today is Friday, so Newell is not working.
Anyway...here were the symptoms. 1) None of the heaters in the bus that run off of the AC thermostats were working. The whisper fans did not run and there was no heat. In my coach there are whisper heaters by the driver and passenger, under the galley sink and under the bed. All of them were kaput / nada. 2) The aquahot said that it was at 187F so I had heat if I could make it go to where it could do some good. 3) In my closet and bathroom are whisper heaters controlled by their own thermostats. These were working. 4) My electric heater (under my salon desk) was working.
Here is the fix. Dwight, a fantastic Newell tech, told me to look in the third fuse slot (third in from outside Right to Left) of the aquahot unit. There was a 10A fuse there. It was blown. He had me replace it with a 15A fuse and all was good with the world.
Dwight said that the "Teddy" heater that is located deep in the AC plenum was probably frozen up and blew the fuse. (There is a fairly simple fix to disconnect the "Teddy" heater but that is for another post).
Anyway replacing the fuse got everything going again. Yay. I wanted to do this post in case someone else wakes up with an icicle on their nose.
Cheers,
bill
I am at Newell and last night my heat did not work. It was 35F outside and the best I could do inside was 62F. Brrrrr. (I know some of you live in cold places where 62F is short sleeve weather). Today is Friday, so Newell is not working.
Anyway...here were the symptoms. 1) None of the heaters in the bus that run off of the AC thermostats were working. The whisper fans did not run and there was no heat. In my coach there are whisper heaters by the driver and passenger, under the galley sink and under the bed. All of them were kaput / nada. 2) The aquahot said that it was at 187F so I had heat if I could make it go to where it could do some good. 3) In my closet and bathroom are whisper heaters controlled by their own thermostats. These were working. 4) My electric heater (under my salon desk) was working.
Here is the fix. Dwight, a fantastic Newell tech, told me to look in the third fuse slot (third in from outside Right to Left) of the aquahot unit. There was a 10A fuse there. It was blown. He had me replace it with a 15A fuse and all was good with the world.
Dwight said that the "Teddy" heater that is located deep in the AC plenum was probably frozen up and blew the fuse. (There is a fairly simple fix to disconnect the "Teddy" heater but that is for another post).
Anyway replacing the fuse got everything going again. Yay. I wanted to do this post in case someone else wakes up with an icicle on their nose.
Cheers,
bill
Bill Johnson
Birmingham, Alabama