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Subject Topic: Carver 3000 gas won`t turn up? Post Reply Post New Topic
Personsand_danser
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Hi all long time since I was in here! As the title says my (1994ish) heater ignites, got plenty of gas, hob works fine on cooker but after lighting the heater and turning up the gas it stays on a very low level?
Am I missing something? The water heaters disconnected as its now a dry van. Could the valve be stuck?
TIA Andy

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Persontango55
07/12/2019 at 5:32pm
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Is this the first time you have used the Carver gas fire or was it working okay previously?


Personsand_danser
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I've had the van for 5 years and it's our 4th so we're unsure tbh but I'd go with a no not used it as we've mostly used it in summer and have an electric blow heater. It's sited now so we want to use the gas heater over winter to save on Lecky. Maybe it's worth having it serviced to be safer?

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Personnavver
07/12/2019 at 7:42pm
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I assume you have propane gas not butane.


Persontango55
07/12/2019 at 7:53pm
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It's worth noting what 'navver' has posted (above) because if you are using Butane gas (blue cylinder) then it can influence the function of the appliance as it doesn't function well when the temperature drops to about 3 degrees celcius. With propane gas (red cylinder) it will operate effectively to under minus 20 degrees celcius.
It would be advisable to confirm which gas have connected up to operate the gas fire.


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Personcliffbrown
08/12/2019 at 7:32am
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not sure about gas fires or heating but ovens sometimes have a solenoid valve which opens when the low flame heats a bulb on the end of a capillary, I have had instances where the bulb has come out of its clip and it isn't in the flame


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08/12/2019 at 2:08pm
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sorry, I was posting on my tablet in the hills of northumberland in our caravan but am home now (crap weather).
Yeah I know about the gas thing and we have a huge red cylinder we got off a neighbour who just had it filled and used it prior to moving on so the gas should be fine.
Cheers cliff, good info there. Next visit I'm going armed with small sockets and spanners and will open it up to blow it out with compressed air and see how it goes... If I can't get it going after that I'll seek a service engineer in the area (haltwhistle) as I'm not messing around.
As a side note, we do take the van to festivals so its been knocked around a bit across rough grass/fields and may have knocked summit as cliff mentioned.

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Personarc systems
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I think the clue is it's lack of use, the Carver 3000 is actually the Truma 3002 and the valve used is prone to stick shut on pilot flame.


Personsand_danser
12/12/2019 at 9:30am
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Hi Arc thanks for you're input. I've seen you're name around the net regarding these issues and yes I read some info on what you said, lack of use is very probably the issue. So I was on the right track in my OP. Can it be unstuck is the question? Maybe a tap n twist lol.
I also read that the Truma parts are more available than the Carver parts too so all is not lost if the valve needs replacing but I do also recall that the valve is built into the whole arm/assembly?

thanks for all the feedback :)

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Personsand_danser
13/12/2019 at 3:40pm
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arc/gary can the valve be freed or do I need to replace it? can u supply one if I need it please?
we're travelling over to it now its an hours drive so I'm not sure if I need spanners or not to try n free it...

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Bit late but yes it can be serviced, if you know how!, feel free to ring me



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