On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote: > the 'weird thing' about the siht hole is the 'sight angle' .. > very poorly designed. > the sight angle is much lower than what you'd think it should be. > you need to be on your knees in front of the fridge with your nose about 10 > inches off the floor to see the blue flame. > with your face up near the controls , or that high like you'd normally be.. > the sihtt angle is wrong to see the flame. > I hate dumb design - just no reason for it really. > sometimes I put a piece of blue masking tape on the left wall of the fridge > to show what the sight angle is, it's much lower than you expect. > Don't know if this applies to your year fridge ..but it does to 84 or so > westy's.
Too true! The hole is at a really unfriendly angle! FWIW, both on my 182A and 182B are like this. A cardboard tube or similar is really useful to see flame. Especially mid day. For the OP, a short video clip of my Dometic fridge flame I shot yesterday: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpPm7D-HbxQ Pt 1: flame in heating mode, some ambient light. Pt 2: Flame switching between heating and pilot mode. You can hear the "click" from thermostat Pt 3: Flame flickers brighter. Mainly to show what flame may look like and what it looks like when it goes from pilot to heating size. Neil.
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