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Old 05-28-2011, 04:51 AM   #1
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New issue for me ):

DW and I are spending Memorial Day weekend at state park in North Dakota that is pretty wide open with not much for trees. Of course with NoDak, we always have lots of wind. Yesterday and today we have had NW winds sustained at 15-20 mph blowing on the side of the water heater. My electric element is burnt out on it and havent had a chance to replace it so I have been using the propane burner to heat up water. Wind is pushing exhaust fumes back in and detector goes off which happened yesterday. I shut off the burner and opened windows and vents all is good with the detector. This morning more wind hitting the water heater side and after firing up the burner, same routine as yesterday. Shut off the burner, aired out the interior and damn detector goes off every 30 seconds or so. Lite on it turned from red to green but still goes off. Everything propane is shut off but detector goes off after I hit reset. Again the lite is green with all the windows open with alot of wind going through. Any suggestions to get this detector to knock it off?
 
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Old 05-28-2011, 05:10 AM   #2
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I don't know much about this sort of thing and Walt (our resident "go to guy")isn't home. My thought would be to put something up to block the wind in that place. I don't mean to prevent air intake, I mean something to block the wind on that side of the Monty. That might help until you can get the element repaired.

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Old 05-28-2011, 05:31 AM   #3
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Thanks Lynne! I think I will park the F 350 near the water heater which should block the wind. I looked up the detector on line and it is malfunctioning by going off every 15 seconds with green light on. I couldn't pry it open so I snipped the power wire to it. Our dealer is just 45 miles away from the park so I will go get an element and a new detector. On the outside of the detector it said "replace July 2010". Hmmm, learned something new today.
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Old 05-28-2011, 06:15 AM   #4
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I had the same problem and thought it was the wind but turned out to be the burner tube was not aligned correctly in the burner, the holding nut had fallen off. I removed the gas and burner tube, clean them as well as the burner chamber. Fixed my problem.
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Old 05-28-2011, 08:12 AM   #5
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Also check for spider webb in tube.
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