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Subject:Re: Fwd: Westfalia refrigerator issues
From:David Beierl
Date:Tue, 24 May 2011 14:41:50 -0400

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.

Yrs,
d