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Good work Mike
As you become familiar with the systems in your coach things get easier to understand and troubleshoot.

Happy travels and hot water.
Eric
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Technical Support / Re: Aqua-hot burner not starting after Racor Filter change.
« Last post by Dan Johnson on February 09, 2025, 01:45:13 PM »
Glad you found the switch. Sorry I missed your problem  because that is where mine is also. You got to stand on your head to read what the switch is for.  Another issue is the heater in the water bay. It is controlled by a button thermostat. It is hot all the time regardless whether the aqua hot is turned on. When the temp gets below the trigger temp it turns on the stir pump.  Not any more as I added a switch before the button thermostat
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Technical Support / Re: Aqua-hot burner not starting after Racor Filter change.
« Last post by Mike Sulley on February 09, 2025, 02:15:00 AM »
Gentlemen:

Well I found the elusive Kitchen switch.  It was on the underside of the overhead cabinet with the coach monitor.  At the far end near the refrigerator.  Recall seeing it, but its function escaped me.  It is sort of similar to switch in the 100-02S manual, but it only has two functions-diesel and engine preheat.  No fancy green and orange lites.

So I cleaned off the carbon on the ignitors and repositioned them to the nozzle.  And reassembled the burner.  The burner fired immediately upon flipping the diesel switch and We Had Heat!!  Let it run for a while and circulated all the air out of the lines.

Wish to thank all you gentlemen for all your help.  It's been a long learning journey from finding the leaking connection to performing the yearly burner maintenance.   I have learned a lot.  In the future I will not be so intimidated by the mention of Aqua-Hot.

Again, thank you all!!

Respectfully,
Mike Sulley
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Mike
Does your coach have a water pump switch located  near the sink in the kitchen and if so is there not a switch right beside it marked water heater?
If so that water heater switch is the Aqua hot diesel control switch.

In the coach assist library the closest thing to an Aquahot wiring diagram is in the 1996 Patriot wiring diagram section ( second to last page)

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Mike,
The switches I was referring to are not under the sink by the waste basket. They are on the cabinet panel in front and just below  the sink. Poor choice of words on my part. See figure 2 on page 4 on  this link for a picture of the switch panel. https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0851/3182/1360/files/AHE-100-03SAqua-HotOwnersManual09-03.pdf?v=1704856391
Coach Assist has links to the 01S service manual and as Gene noted the op manual for the 01S and 02 S is the same so your manual should be accurate.
If you are having issues accessing our documentation let us know and we can step you through the process as needed.
Steve
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Technical Support / Re: Aqua-hot burner not starting after Racor Filter change.
« Last post by Gene Obie on February 08, 2025, 07:32:59 PM »
You should be able to find the manual for your unit here --> https://heatmyrv.com/pages/resources__manuals?

It's seems 01 and 02 are the same manual.
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Technical Support / Re: Aqua-hot burner not starting after Racor Filter change.
« Last post by Mike Sulley on February 08, 2025, 07:10:31 PM »
Hello David and Steve,

 I thank you for trying help me out and add to my knowledge.  When I bought the coach a couple years ago, we received no explanations about the Aqua-Hot and what manuals we received were scattered everywhere.

David for first several outings with our "new" coach over two seasons, every time I started the coach engine,  I would always see the gray exhaust of the Aqua-Hot firing up.  I never had to do anything.  I always attributed this to the main thermostat on the cabinet above the couch being switched on.  I never turned it off.

Steve my wife tells me there is a single switch under the sink on the left behind the waste basket.  She thought it might have to do with the instant hot water fixture on the counter top next to the sink.  But the switch didn't seem to have any effect.  We never got any hot water out of it.  So she turned it off.  Evidently, that was about the time of our last trip of the season.  And curiously, we had no heat.  She just brought this to my attention after reading Eric's comment about the "kitchen switch".  Note we have always had hot water from the AH.  I turned it off with the breaker in the box on the back wall of the bedroom when I started trouble shooting the diesel fired AH.

It would really be helpful to find a manual for "our" AHE 100-01S Aqua-Hot system.  The 100-02S manual is the only one I have ever found.  I have never looked in the Beaver Forums Manual library.  The security sign on requirement has always intimidated me.  I did call AH in Colorado and they could only provide with the 100-02S manual.

I am still waiting for my 5/16" primer bulb.  Once it arrives, I will temperarily cut it into the diesel return line and circulate diesel thru the system back into the supply tank.  Then go from there.

Once again, thank you so much for your reply's.

Mike Sulley
 
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Technical Support / Re: Solar Charge Controller Location
« Last post by Chuck Hurd on February 08, 2025, 01:59:08 PM »
Well I found it it’s in the battery compartment mounted to the ceiling
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Mike,
The "kitchen" switch Eric is referring to is located in  the panel just below the kitchen sink (usually on the left side of it). Most have 3 switches: Diesel, Electric, Preheat. For your testing you want to select Diesel.
Steve
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I can tell if our AquaHot ignites by seeing its exhaust (usually a bit white until it warms up, then clearing) through the rear-facing streetside dining room window. I can also run outside, on the streetside, and feel the exhaust. If it's a warm/hot exhaust, then it's burning diesel. With interior audio components off, I can hear the burner operating.  Ours is an 02S.


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