Date:         Tue, 24 May 2011 19:07:56 -0500
Reply-To:     mcneely4@COX.NET
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From:         Dave Mcneely <mcneely4@COX.NET>
Subject:      Re: Fwd: Westfalia refrigerator issues
Comments: To: David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net>
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---- David Beierl <dbeierl@attglobal.net> wrote:
> At 02:19 PM 5/23/2011, Dave Mcneely wrote:
> >8.  Hold the igniter switch down.
> >9.  Pump the pump for the propane mode several times.  My burner is
> >in good shape.  After a half a dozen pumps, I release the igniter
> >switch and the green led on the cabinet glows.  The propane burner is lit.
>
> This part refers to the RM182C fridge with electronic ignition board,
> only on very late-model Westys.  For the rest, there's a piezo spark
> igniter that operates with a click at the bottom of the air pump
> stroke (if you shove on it, which I do every stroke).  The button you
> hold down is like any gas appliance, it holds the gas valve open
> until the thermocouple is hot enough to do the job.  As I recall
> (been a while) this one takes a fair while to heat up; but when the
> panel LED (panel must be turned on) has gotten as bright as it's
> going to it's safe to let go of the button.

Hmmm.  My camper is a '91, the latest model imported.  I thought I was, with the pump, operating both air and piezo ignition.  I have had the refrigerator out and cleaned it.  (Nasty job getting it out and back in ok), but that was two years ago, and I just don't remember everything perfectly.  If the ignition is not piezo, what is it?

My led doesn't tell me whether the burner is burning until I stop pumping and release the button.  Then it lights up (it has always lit).

Dave
>
> Yrs,
> d
>

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David McNeely