LLigetfa
DIYer, not in the trades
I have a Reliance GSW rental tank - gas - power vent - 6G40NVH-FV-02 - B4743 that often fails to ignite. It will try three times and then the Vacation, A, and B light come on. After a while it repeats the process and this can go on for hours. Eventually it will fire and make hot water.
I called Reliance back in March and they sent out a tech. I got tired of listening to the heater try over and over and so pulled the plug on it after I got off the phone to them. The tech shows up, I explain what it was doing and he says he cannot take my word for it... has to see it for himself.
He plugs it in, the first two attempts to fire fail, so he says he knows what's wrong and heads out to the truck to get a new gas valve. When he gets back, it is making hot water so he says he cannot replace a gas valve that works.
Every time it fails to fire, it is either in the evening or on a weekend. This morning it was acting up and only started making hot water at 5:00 PM... ARGH!! I've had the gas valve replaced twice before but those were for ECO which is not intermittent.
I called Reliance back in March and they sent out a tech. I got tired of listening to the heater try over and over and so pulled the plug on it after I got off the phone to them. The tech shows up, I explain what it was doing and he says he cannot take my word for it... has to see it for himself.
He plugs it in, the first two attempts to fire fail, so he says he knows what's wrong and heads out to the truck to get a new gas valve. When he gets back, it is making hot water so he says he cannot replace a gas valve that works.
Every time it fails to fire, it is either in the evening or on a weekend. This morning it was acting up and only started making hot water at 5:00 PM... ARGH!! I've had the gas valve replaced twice before but those were for ECO which is not intermittent.