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Hi All Hot water again! A friend came by with a tester and we discovered it is in fact a problem with either the board or the connector to the board. When he pushed up slightly on the connector, the heater fired right up! I'm going to reexamine the connection first, but a new board is probably in order with with winter on the way. Thank you all for your help and guidance! Pat

Hi Kirk, I did a quick check just trying to by-pass it. (Thanks for that tip Lemp!) Still no go. I don't have any kind of tester, but I'm watching a You Tube video at the moment. He's saying if there is no clicking when you try to start the heater that the circuit board is probably bad. You are quite right though, I don't want to have to replace it unless I have to! Pat

I tried by-passing the cutoff and still nothing. Kirk, the flame doesn't come on at all, no clicking no nothing. And I have replaced the thermostats in the last 2 years - when I had problems with them the symptoms were different, as you say the flame would come on then quit. So am I down to the problem being either power not getting where it needs to go or the circuit board?

Thanks for the replies. When I hit the switch to turn on the heater, the green light comes on and stays on throughout the heating and after the burner kicks off. There's a red light that comes on if the burner doesn't ignite or if the burner doesn't re-ignite after it's successfully heated the water. This does happen a bit if I'm running more than the usual amount of hot water - a shower and doing the dishes. Normally when I turn the heater on I hear a click and the burner firing up - now there's nothing. John, I'll try the eraser trick as that was one connector that didn't look bad at all. Pat

Hi All My Atwood g6a-8e water heater is refusing to light. The green light comes on on the control panel, but nothing happens - the red light doesn't come on either. Last year I replaced the thermostats, the igniter and the pressure relief valve. The fuse looks good. I've cleaned a bit of corrosion off the igniter and checked the various connectors too. And I have plenty of propane. This happened once before and after checking all the connections and trying again, it did start then and has been working well for a month. Could it be the circuit board? Many thanks in advance... Pat