Dometic 6 Gal H.W. Design flaw while on Propane?

[navnaz]

Pictures

I uploaded 4 pictures. Should give you the idea of the mod. Bottom line: remove the obstacles from the exhaust port. Angle the exhaust up and out. Make sure the heat is not vented to the compartment area.

 

[Camper1-WO]

Thanks so much for posting the Pics of the Mod to your Gas H.W. Heater model (WH6GEA) Navnaz! Sorry it took so long to thank you for posting them! Yours is one of a few ideas posted on this thread here, to help assure these particular Gas Hot Water models operate when camping/boondocking at higher elevations. I will get to one of them in the new year

 

[The Raptor.]

The dark section of the burner tube, are you saying that is where the flame was? If so, there has to be an air leak back at the beginning of the tube; otherwise the LP mixture would be too rich to burn inside the tube.

As to being unused, my MH was parked in a barn for 8 years due to owners poor health. When I bought it, after purging the lines of air the ATwood WH started up normally.

Have you found the make/model of this WH?

Yes !
I think I recall mentioning that there was a tiny lump of Black junk on the inside of the Main Jet when I dismantled the fittings, I simply used my Mig cleaning wire to remove the Junk & then it ignited at the End of the Tube inside the Heater, and as worked well since then.

I don't purchase/swap pre-filled LPG tanks, I have fittings that I can fill my LPG tanks directly from the Browser, but my Mechanic friend has heaps of 3/4 full Vehicle LPG tanks that I decanter/siphon from into my Vapour Tanks, as when the 10year LPG Vehicle test is due, it is Cheaper & Quicker to replace the Vehicle with a New LPG Tank !

So I have over a years worth of LPG sitting in Tanks awaiting to be emptied & then we turn the old Tanks into a BBQ or Smoker, commonly we use empty LPG Tanks Under Shipping Containers.

Not sure What Brand is my Water Heat, other than what is on the images I posted on the previous page.