need help with wiring on SW10DE water heater
I had to replace my water heater and did so with the exact model I had. however, the new unit is missing one wire. the old unit had 4 wires to hook up. the new one has only 3. the orange wire from the...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Couple of things....
First the electric side.
If the electric element turns ON/OFF via the switch located in the outside compartment but doesn't with the remote switch inside rv then there is a problem with the remote switch. Pull it and check contacts/terminals
You could use AC circuit breaker for on/off vs going outside.
As for the gas side.
That orange wire.....it has 12V DC power on it when you flip the gas ON/OFF switch to ON? But gas side fires up, heats, shuts down OK?
Pull the gas ON/OFF switch and the light...check wiring, connections/terminals.
Locate were that orange wire connects to switch---light.
Don't know what/why orange wire (HOT when ON) is for especially with gas side operating??????
No, the orange wire has nothing to do with the gas side.
ok. the wires from the old SW10DEL unit are as follows
blue
green
orange
red
on the current heater SW10DE
red
blue
green
you can see the previous wiring here...before I replaced unit.these are as came from factory.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/pipeliners/10880151825/
