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Originally Posted by djlia99
I have seen other posts regarding the furnace not igniting and have followed some of the suggestions. The only time I have seen the furnace not ignite is at 8000 ft elevation. What is the solution? I am at 8k elevation now and could use some heat at nighttime. brrrrr. Any suggestions on how to correct the elevation issue?
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After reading your post it made me think…. We have a Dometic 30,000 btu in our Magnitude SV34 that we hadn’t used above 6,000’.
* at 6,000’ it took about 2-3 minutes of firing and refiring before it would burn steady - I wasn’t sure why but then saw your post - Ah, ha moment.
* Yesterday we were at 7,000’ in flagstaff and it took about 5 minutes of firing and fire-firing before it would run steady.
* Now we are at 8,100’ in CO and it took a good 17 minutes of firing and re-firing before it was a steady burn. It was 2:am and 55° in the RV so I had nothing better to do than track, time and pray it would get steady so I wouldn’t have to get out of bed and get the electric heater… (oh my) I counted to 3 it would stop, then it would make it to a 7 count, then 20, back to 3, up to 35, back to 7 and so on - after 17 minutes of this it stayed lit and brought the temp up to 68° and kept it there the rest of the night.
So if you never gave yours some time that may help. If you have given yours time you’ll need to figure something out.
Best of luck - heat is good to have.