Where’s Bertie? He’s spending another night in his motorhome dealer’s customer parking.
Weather: Mainly overcast but becoming sunnier this afternoon.
The day didn’t get off to a roaring start. Literally so. When Bertie’s heating fires up it sounds like a jet engine for a second before becoming barely audible. This morning there was no roar and a fault code came up on the display panel. Oh no! Not another problem!
I cleared the code and tried again, but with the same result. A quick Google of the code had me suspect what the issue was. About a week ago I checked the levels in Bertie’s gas cylinders and he had about 4.5 litres in the first, with the second being full. As we go through about a litre per day, that first cylinder should have run out a few days ago, and the system should have automatically switched over to the second cylinder. However, the gauges aren’t overly accurate, and it seems that we only reached a low gas pressure in the last 24 hours (because the heating worked yesterday morning) and the changeover valve hadn’t done its thing. Out I went to the gas locker to manually change it over (just a matter of turning a knob), and having done that I thought I’d just check the crash-detection trip valves – and there was our problem. It seems that when we turned the gas back on having filled the cylinders a month ago, we failed to reset that crash valve on the second cylinder and thus the changeover valve was seeing it as empty. A relief that it was operator error, rather than a genuine fault.
Annnnnd, that is the entirety of what I have to report today. The rest of our day has looked like this:
Weather: Mainly overcast but becoming sunnier this afternoon.
The day didn’t get off to a roaring start. Literally so. When Bertie’s heating fires up it sounds like a jet engine for a second before becoming barely audible. This morning there was no roar and a fault code came up on the display panel. Oh no! Not another problem!
I cleared the code and tried again, but with the same result. A quick Google of the code had me suspect what the issue was. About a week ago I checked the levels in Bertie’s gas cylinders and he had about 4.5 litres in the first, with the second being full. As we go through about a litre per day, that first cylinder should have run out a few days ago, and the system should have automatically switched over to the second cylinder. However, the gauges aren’t overly accurate, and it seems that we only reached a low gas pressure in the last 24 hours (because the heating worked yesterday morning) and the changeover valve hadn’t done its thing. Out I went to the gas locker to manually change it over (just a matter of turning a knob), and having done that I thought I’d just check the crash-detection trip valves – and there was our problem. It seems that when we turned the gas back on having filled the cylinders a month ago, we failed to reset that crash valve on the second cylinder and thus the changeover valve was seeing it as empty. A relief that it was operator error, rather than a genuine fault.
Annnnnd, that is the entirety of what I have to report today. The rest of our day has looked like this:
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