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Interior heater trouble

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Not sure if there is any advice anyone can give me. And I only have about 45 mins for you guys to answer before my internet is all gone but my fan heater (gas powered, positioned under my cooker) has stopped working. I can't remember the brand but it has an on off heater fan switch and a dail to control the temperature has stopped working.

Gas is still working but the heater won't start up. I know this is a long shot but if anyone has any advice I will try anything. It's freezing up here in the peaks and I'm not looking forward to the cold night.

Cheers guys

Think it may be a propex until but not sure. It's red if that helps.
It was working an hour ago. It suddenly stopped. Restarted a second later. And then cut out fully about a minute later
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No idea with this stuff but... Ran out of Gas?
Pipes too cold? under the van maybe?
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It sounds like a propex heater, they have a low voltage cut off, I'm unsure of the threshold but if your not on hookup try starting the van to get some charge into the leisure battery.

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Thanks for the quick reply. On hook up but I think i hasn't connected it properly initially so I may have B been running the heater from the leisure batteybfor the 20 mins until it turned off. Maybe it's low on power. Sounds like a silly question but now I'm hooked up properly will this recharge my leisure battery or not?

Would love to start the engine but I broke down as I arrived at the site. Hopefully the AA can get me up and running tomorrow
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It should do yes but it does depend on how your particular van is wired up

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Running on butane? (blue bottle) Temp too low for it to vapourize?
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If it IS a Propex, John and I wrote quite a bit about the Propex: https://club8090.co.uk/wiki/Ca ... ior_Propex" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
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Do we need to form a search party and go to dig him out of a glacier now? :mrgreen:
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Thanks for the advice guys. I survived the night so you can all stop worrying haha
Never did get it started. And yeah using butane so I think that's the problem. I heard swapping to propane may sort the issue. Not a lot of using having a heater that won't start when it's cold is it.
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Aye, I had issues on the blue stuff. I use red all year round now. Present night time temperatures would be enough to cause blue to fail.
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