Ice Castle furnace problems

During deer season we bring our fish house to our shack so we have our own space. There’s no electricity so we run a generator down in the shed and that powers the shack and then I plug the fish house into the shack. One night someone in the shack decided they needed to run an electric heater and it overloaded the generator and tripped a breaker in the shed, it has a solar power set up to charge batteries. After we got everything squared away and reset I noticed the furnace in my fish house wasn’t working. The thermostat clicks like it’s calling for heat but nothing happens. I tried resetting everything, cycled the power and checked all the fuses in the box under the table and I can’t figure anything out. Hopefully it didn’t get some kind of power surge and it fried something. Everything else works fine. Anyone have any ideas?

Those ice castles are worse then owning a ram. I mean just look at the lots. Can’t believe how they jacked the price of them up and they just sit

They are absolute garbage your right there. If a RAM was even capable of pulling one they could go right off a cliff together and get rid of two piles of $hit at once.

walleyesforme wrote:

They are absolute garbage your right there. If a RAM was even capable of pulling one they could go right off a cliff together and get rid of two piles of $hit at once.

Lol, I’m just playing around. Hopefully you get your problem fixed.

Bearcat89 wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>walleyesforme wrote:</div>
They are absolute garbage your right there. If a RAM was even capable of pulling one they could go right off a cliff together and get rid of two piles of $hit at once.

Lol, I’m just playing around. Hopefully you get your problem fixed.

It’s all good haha. Kinda figured I had that coming.

RV type furnaces are pretty simple and you’re just going to need to get a voltmeter and start checking power at each point. If you think you find a problem bypass the switch/relay/board/whatever by connecting the wires straight together and seeing what happens to verify. If it’s the board, and your heater is old and can’t find one, Dinosaur Electronics probably has something that will work.

Oh, and take a lot of pictures before disconnecting stuff… or really get to know your heater like I had to

I’ll have to rip that thing out of there and start playing around with it. I was just looking online and I didn’t realize that those furnaces are actually fairly inexpensive. It’s a 2018 so parts should be available.

If the furnace was running when the gen quit it most likely tripped a limit switch in the furnace,check those before you rip it apart.

very helpful youtube from smoke hills

Thanks. That’s good info there.

walleyesforme wrote:

The thermostat clicks like it’s calling for heat but nothing happens.

What is the brand of this furnace? When you say it clicks, is the sequence that the fan comes on and then there is a click-click-click-click noise, but no ignition?

95% of the issues with RV furnaces involve either the fuses/breakers, the 2 safety limit switches, the ignitor, or the flame sensor.

I’ve been through so many issues with my camper furnace that I literally carry all of the above as spare parts.