C20
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New to us Monaco and I'm having some Aquahot issues. It's a 450D model. It was serviced before we left and working on the burner. My issues are that the front of the coach just blows cold air. The endless hot showers i'm promised only last about 2 minutes and then we run out of hot water. Suggestions?
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MountainAir05
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Do you have heat any where else
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C20
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Yes I have heat in the rear of the coach
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chuckftboy
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You have 3 pumps in the Aquahot. The pump to the right of the burner is the stir pump, See if that one is running. If the stir pump fails you wont get much hot water at the faucet.
You also may have a remote booster pump, mine is on the opposite of the coach, I don't know where Monaco would put one but if it isn't working, you won't get heat up front.
Aquahot has a great service manual on line that gives a lot of info that helps with troubleshooting
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C20
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Thank you chuckftboy
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older_fossil
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Find the display panel for your Aquahot and look for red leds lit when the system should be heating or providing hot water. The diesel burner needs to be on and working properly to provide continuous hot water. If as stated before the stir pump has failed, hot water temperature will be highly variable. As for the front not getting heat, if that zone pump is out or the check valve is stuck the floor register can't deliver heat. Does the fan in the floor register come on? If the problem is in the 2015 Monaco in your original post, that is the time frame that Aquahot was shipping units with failure prone pumps. We've replaced all 4 Aquahot pumps in our rig built in August 2015.
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C20
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Thank you Older. It is in the Monaco. I don't have any red lights, but I only have one pump light on. I do have a fan on in the front.
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older_fossil
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If you go to:
Aquahot Library
You can download manuals for the 450D, most importantly the service manual which contains a decent troubleshooting section. Also Roger Berke has a site which contains a great forum for discussing hydronic heater problems, including the Aquahot units. Roger Berke's website.
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C20, I have sent you a message.
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1. If 1 zone has no hot air and the other does, 99% of the time the Circulation pump is bad on a 6 year old system. The other 1% would be the zone check valve is stuck for that zone and does not allow hot coolant to circulate
2. Unlimited Hot water depends requires the Diesel Burner to be ON and has run long enough(usually 30 minutes or less) to heat the coolant tank which is about 7 gallons of coolant. Once the Tank coolant is at temp, the Diesel burner will then keep the coolant hot enough for unlimited hot water. HAVE YOU DONE THIS?
3. If you have done as listed above then the odds are the Stir Pump is not running. Rarely does the Mixing valve go bad.
4. Depending on the age(yours is 6 years) and how often the Aqua Hot had been used in those 6 years, it is very possible that both the Zone Pump and Circulation pump are gummed up and defective. Aqua Hot has a new style Circulation pump that does not have this type problem. If you look at the 3 Circulation pumps at the Burner side, IF they have clear covers, those are the old style.
5. A Aqua Hot "service" does not take into account the problem you are experiancing. A Aqua Hot service just replaces the fuel nozzle and the Fuel filter and sets the Spark Gap. BUT, the service center should then do a complete operational check---Ensure Hot water is unlimited and the Heat zones work. Most Service Centers do not do this. I get customers all the time that come in and state they want the yearly Service. I then ask WHY and if they have any problems and they state problems similar to yours. I tell them a standard YEARLY SERVICE does NOT fix this type problem. There will be an extra charge to diag and fix any operation problems after the yearly service. I, ALSO, before I do any Aqua Hot Service if the customer does NOT state any problems will do an operation check BEFORE doing the Service. Then we call the customer BEFORE we do the service to let them know that the Yearly Service will probably not fix the problems we see.
6. The Zone pump and Stir pumps are the same model pump. Doug
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