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    warbird74 Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Oct 20, 2014, 08:22 AM
    Gas hot water heater
    Have to manually re-light pilot to restart each heating cycle [gas water heater ]
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    Oct 20, 2014, 10:16 AM
    Need more information, you mean that the pilot doesn't stay on and you have to manually re-light, if that is the case then you have problem with your thermocouple, please come back and we will tell what needs to be done, Thanks.

    John
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    Oct 20, 2014, 11:44 AM
    Hi warbird and welcome, John is more than likely on the right track, but if this is a FVIR heater it could be as simple as the filter dirty and the one burn using up all the O2. Is yours a FVIR?
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    Oct 20, 2014, 04:58 PM
    Also the pilot may be getting blown out by a backdraft. After you light it watch it for sveral minutes. Have some one else open and close an outside door and/or window. Turn the heat up on your furnace, do any of these things create a backdraft?
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