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jkilpatrick
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 Posted: Mon Jun 03, 2019 6:31 am Post subject: Propex heater acting strange |
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Hi all,
New owner of a 1984 Westy, Canadian model, no AC, no power steering, i.e. fairly bare bones. A couple of nice additions to it include an auxiliary battery, a solar-powered charger, and a Propex HS2200 mounted under the folding bed. Not sure of the vintage of the Propex, but it worked until very recently.
I recently moved the overhead and rear-most cabinets around to install some 3-point seatbelts and passenger headrests. Should also say I disconnected the speakers in the overhead cabinet, and have not reconnected them (I hope this doesn't matter).
Anyway, here's the issue I am having. After re-assembling everything I noticed my Propex heater was ticking or clicking. I removed the cover to take a look, and the ticking is being caused by rotation of the rotary blower/fan in the housing - it it slowly rotating like the second hand of a watch - tick tick tick. The thermostat is getting power, but when I switch to the "fan" setting nothing happens to the fan (i.e. the fan does not run). However the green light does go on on the thermostat.
I'm at a bit of a loss to identify the source of the problem, though I suspect its electrical in nature. The auxiliary battery seems to be draining quicker than I believe it should.
Any thoughts or direction from regular forum readers would be helpful. I have tried searching the forum for similar issues but the only ticking Propex threads seem to be related to the igniters.
Many thanks
John |
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dobryan
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jkilpatrick
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| Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:09 am Post subject: Re: Propex heater acting strange |
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Hey, quick update.
So I traced all my steps backwards in the cabinet removal process to find the electrical fault, but had no luck.
Took the cover off the Propex again, to have a closer look and noticed that the red wire on the 2 core cable had a spot with the insulation worn off it - not sure how that happened because I doubt anything I did would have done that - but it must have touched the heater housing at some point and caused the fault.
Tidied it up with a bit of liquid electrical tape covered by proper electrical tape, and its all good. |
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dobryan
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| Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 6:25 am Post subject: Re: Propex heater acting strange |
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| jkilpatrick wrote: |
Hey, quick update.
So I traced all my steps backwards in the cabinet removal process to find the electrical fault, but had no luck.
Took the cover off the Propex again, to have a closer look and noticed that the red wire on the 2 core cable had a spot with the insulation worn off it - not sure how that happened because I doubt anything I did would have done that - but it must have touched the heater housing at some point and caused the fault.
Tidied it up with a bit of liquid electrical tape covered by proper electrical tape, and its all good. |
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DanHoug
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| Posted: Tue Jun 04, 2019 9:02 am Post subject: Re: Propex heater acting strange |
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| jkilpatrick wrote: |
| Took the cover off the Propex again, to have a closer look and noticed that the red wire on the 2 core cable had a spot with the insulation worn off it - not sure how that happened because I doubt anything I did would have done that - |
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