Drew Callahan

Most Brinkley Model Z owners don’t realize their furnace control board fails without warning—no spark, no heat, no visible damage to blame. I’ve spent countless nights diagnosing this exact problem, pulling the unit apart in freezing weather only to discover the circuit board had simply stopped working. The igniter and control board are the two … Read more

Is your Cedar Creek furnace clicking but not catching fire, or shutting down mid-cycle on cold nights? You’re probably staring at a failing igniter or control board—and you’re right to be concerned. Forest River doesn’t always install components built to handle a decade of road use; they spec furnace parts that meet minimum function and … Read more

It was mid-November in Colorado—the kind of morning where your breath clouds inside the rig before the furnace even kicks on. I’d parked the Sprinter at a high-elevation campground expecting a straightforward weekend, but when I reached for the thermostat dial, I got nothing but a clicking sound from the furnace housing and then a … Read more

You’ll hear two entirely different stories if you call a Keystone dealership versus hunt through RV forums about Arcadia furnace failures. The dealer will tell you the igniter’s burned out and quote you a full replacement. The forum crowd will say it’s always the control board. Here’s the thing: they’re both wrong about it being … Read more

The Friday evening calls never surprise me anymore—a family bundled in blankets at some elevation campground, furnace running but producing nothing but a clicking sound, and a panicked voice on the other end asking if this can wait until Monday. What I’ve learned from working on dozens of Grand Design Reflections is that the furnace … Read more

Keystone Alpine furnaces don’t come with a footnote in the owner’s manual telling you what actually happens when the control board fails—or how to tell the difference between a dead board and a dead igniter without dropping $300 at a service center just to get diagnosed. You’ll find plenty of online chatter about “replacing the … Read more

I was standing outside my Durango one November morning, waiting to hear that familiar *whoosh* of the igniter catching—and instead got nothing but a soft *click*, then silence. The furnace fan would spin up, the blower would push cold air through the vents, but no flame. I’d already ordered a new igniter electrode based on … Read more

Most RV owners assume their furnace will either work or it won’t — that it’s a binary thing, like a light switch. That assumption is dangerously wrong. A Highland Ridge Open Range furnace can fail in ways that look identical on the surface but demand completely different fixes: a dead igniter, a fried control board, … Read more

I’ve got my Crossroads Redwood sitting in a pull-through right now, and I’m looking at the furnace access panel I pulled off the sidewall about an hour ago. Inside that compartment lives two components that almost nobody thinks about until they fail: an igniter and a control board. Those two parts work in tandem, and … Read more