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Re: Alde reliability
New 400 owner hear browsing the list to try to fix all my problems. Good to hear that most folks are happy with the Alde, we've found it a real bummer moving to this from the forced air heater of our Hallmark Pop-up (you jump in and are warm in 4 min). It takes many hours to heat up, hot water runs out really quickly (and we have to really fiddle to get it hot enough), and now I seem to have a problem that others don't have... we get 'gas failure' and the alde stops even though there is propane. I kinda think this is due to low voltage after a few different tests, but it happened after only 2 nights of pretty conservative use (and with a solar panel). The Alde service folks are nice, but they don't seem to have a way of diagnosing whether the unit is actually working right and now I'm going to have to find time to take it hours to a dealer to hope that things can get fixed. Oh, we have a glycol leak too around the fill tank.
Anyone else have a 'gas failure' or glycol leak issue?
Thanks!
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Re: 2018 T@B and T@G Changes Announced
The extra storage cabinets/drawers would have been nice but that would eliminate the puppy bench!....oh nooo!
Re: Need Help - Mixing Valve Leaking
I think you might be onto something with the loose hex collar idea. It certainly can't hurt much at this point to try carefully snugging things up a little and crossing your fingers. Worst case you'll still be replacing something.
Like Verna, I have an older T@B without the mixing valve. I can't say I'm disappointed about that--while the water does come out of the Alde pretty darn hot, there is already a handy "mixing valve" located at each fixture. ;-)
If it were me I'd probably remove and bypass the valve altogether. However, the pretty darn hot I mentioned earlier can exceed 150F, so if you burn yourself you didn't get the idea from me! :-)
