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    Whirlpool Flame Lock water heaters, reviews, troubleshooting, repair and support.

    Latest and not surpising to you here, I called Whirlpools' number and shockingly did not get India, but a nice sounding Southern gal, who did ok with helping me out. Well , sorta. Told my short story, told her i wanted a new control valve sent out to me, since it was determined by the consenus...
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    Whirlpool Flame Lock water heaters, reviews, troubleshooting, repair and support.

    Thanks, Looks like things are NOT ok with my problems, since i just 5 minutes ago checked on it (after i ran a load of clothes in the washer) and the pilot was out , but the hot water lines were pretty warm, so it just must have gone out. So i looks like i'll be needing a control valve...
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    Whirlpool Flame Lock water heaters, reviews, troubleshooting, repair and support.

    Well, did a good blow out/vacuum/clean of the Flame Lock screen, (was not covered or clogged at all, but i'm assuming there might have been some stuff in the openings) and nothing much else more to it. The pilot has been on now for 6-7 hrs since, but that is not saying i'm out of the woods...
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    Whirlpool Flame Lock water heaters, reviews, troubleshooting, repair and support.

    As stated in my 1st post above this one, i removed the black "filter" ring (would prob only stop the biggest of dust bunnies IMO) last evening and the pilot stayed on overnite, longer than prev attempts prior to doing so. BUT it DID go out (with ring removed) after i confirmed in the morning it...
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    Whirlpool Flame Lock water heaters, reviews, troubleshooting, repair and support.

    Well, add me to the long list of unhappy Whirlpool Flamelocker's. Tho i suppose i was lucky and had this beast for only 4 yrs b4 the infamous pilot loss problem appeared .Tho i DID have to return the first one i bought,, after lugging it downstairs only to find it musta got dropped from 10 feet...
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