Recent article asked about hot solenoid but I wanted to follow up with a new link to give more details. Our stove would work for one pot of coffee and then either not relight for a second (urrggh)or slowly die as if we ran out of gas. On advise from several HOW readers, Force 10, Trident Marine, and Hunter I ordered a new solenoid valve. Replacing it seems to have solved the problems. (12VDC low pressure solenoid)1/4" fittings I had noticed before that the defective solenoid would get too hot to touch. I have noticed some other post about similar incidents so I hope this helps.
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No gas
I have a similar experience a few weeks ago of not getting gas flow through the solenoid valve. I changed the valve but used the coil from the old valve as I did not wanted to redo the electrical connections. It worked. I thought there was a problem with the rubber getting swallon from some gum from the propane gas. The solenoid tends to get hot but I didn't think it would affect the magnetics. Interesting.
I have a similar experience a few weeks ago of not getting gas flow through the solenoid valve. I changed the valve but used the coil from the old valve as I did not wanted to redo the electrical connections. It worked. I thought there was a problem with the rubber getting swallon from some gum from the propane gas. The solenoid tends to get hot but I didn't think it would affect the magnetics. Interesting.
Good idea
Good idea to use the existing wire and magnet. I hated to cut the wires. To connect the new wires I used those new screw together.
Good idea to use the existing wire and magnet. I hated to cut the wires. To connect the new wires I used those new screw together.
Curie point
I just looked up Curie point and the Curie point for iron is about 1000 deg Kelvin. That is about 750 deg Celcius. Very hot. I doubt if the solenoid can get the core that hot without melting something or destroying the coil wire insulation first (the insulation likely fails in the 200 deg C range). So it is still a mystery.
I just looked up Curie point and the Curie point for iron is about 1000 deg Kelvin. That is about 750 deg Celcius. Very hot. I doubt if the solenoid can get the core that hot without melting something or destroying the coil wire insulation first (the insulation likely fails in the 200 deg C range). So it is still a mystery.
Large batch of defective solenoids
On my old boat I've had the same solenoid for 18 years and it still works perfectly. The solenoid on the new boat failed after one year. There have been many solenoid failures on Beneteaus in the past two years. This has been attributed to a bad batch from Trident Marine. Trident replaced mine after I was referred to them by Beneteau. Beneteau has the hull numbers of the boats with the "faulty" solenoids. They were installed in 323,343,373,393,423,473 and F36.7 models
On my old boat I've had the same solenoid for 18 years and it still works perfectly. The solenoid on the new boat failed after one year. There have been many solenoid failures on Beneteaus in the past two years. This has been attributed to a bad batch from Trident Marine. Trident replaced mine after I was referred to them by Beneteau. Beneteau has the hull numbers of the boats with the "faulty" solenoids. They were installed in 323,343,373,393,423,473 and F36.7 models
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