19 Jan 10 Troubleshooting an Electric Water Heater
I've read a lot to say do it yourself water heater tutorials and many of them from the top search pages the same. But I did not see an easy to understand tutorial does not work on the control of water heating elements, and why the water heater. While these do it yourself, what some tutorials to explain how the item that most of them say anything about the control of the thermostat and let them check valuable information.
So I will explain how "I"Go to troubleshoot water heaters and the thermostat. The first thing you need to do is to check to see if your power goes into the water heater, you can have something to do with a voltmeter, a few meters, you need the volt meter to the wires when the counter They have discussed a hot, there's constant power, when it beeps once, then not. If you're doing great. If you are not, then there is a problem in the breaker, it could have tripped, reset the switchusually solve this problem.
Now, the examination of the water heater can receive elements and the thermostat, you will need a voltmeter that has a resistance or ohms setting up. Before you start the panels and play with the power to secure the wires. I repeat: Secure the power of the kettle!. Next step is, take the two access panels, so you can equipped the thermostat and the heating element. Before you test the elements of a view of the thermostat settingto see whether the reset button is triggered. If it's the little red button is appeared to be just push it back in and the problem should be solved, if it does not let us on the examination of the elements.
Keep your meter to confirm Now the lines again, that the device is switched off! Use a screwdriver to loosen the screws or bolts into one of the cables on the item, it does not matter which wire loose touch it simply does not have anything on the item. Now select your voltmeter to ohms,if the voltmeter is OHMS 1 sentence should read it. A set screw and keep it there, the spacecraft to the other screw, when showing the 1-meter. (open), then good, if there were something like .003, 006 or "0 provides:" (closed), they eventually read 0, it is a bad elements and must be replaced. Then you will do the same to the other element.
The procedure is the same with the water heater thermostat, but it has more ports and wires then the element is not. Remove a wire from theThermostat, again it does not matter which. Keep a probe of the ad in the first screw, then use the second probe each screw on the thermostat to check read all OHM-1 on the test. Thats it, very, very simple. If you notice, in fact, that you are a bad element or thermostat then you have to replace. For information on visiting my blog thats listed below.
I hope this article cleared on things, whether you need a new heating system or waternot. And imagine that the only time you need to replace an electric water heater, if it so old that the outside of the leaking, as the lower part. If the leak from the top you could change the supply lines or nipples, in most cases, but really makes people, the elements and the thermostat of the water heater.
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