Atwood furnace

[saulpm911]

Hilo towlite 17ft which is a 2009 That has a Atwood furnace. What are your steps to turn on thermostat?
When I pop off the cover to the thermostat in the camper I tried moving the thermostat down low but it moves right back to high.
I was thinking because it is summer and warm in the camper so he thermostat wont move?
Just bought the camper and trying to figure it all out.

 

[JackandJanet]

Saul, welcome to our happy band! I don't have your problem, but I did find the thermostat was very hard to turn on, so I opened it up and did a little surgery on the ON/OFF lever switch to make it easier to move.

If you can't get it to hold the desired temperature, a solution is to replace it with one from a home improvement store. Look for the inexpensive, non-programable kind, with two wires. Here's a thread on this topic from Treeclimber, who went a slightly different route: https://www.hilotrailerforum.com/f32/thermostat-replacement-6711/

- Jack

 

[sam-HILO]

Thermostat

The thermostat is very hard to turn on with the lever at the bottom. We replaced ours with a push button kind at Walmart. So modern just push the arrow up or down. A breeze to push the start up button. Happy wife!!