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yves1956
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Dec 10, 2015

ATWOOD Water heater

My Rv is an Holiday Rambler 2003 Admiral SE

I have a 10 gallons Atwood water heater gas and electric located underneath the sink in the kitchen. The water heater is plugged on a 110 ac outlet. There is no current to the outlet when I put the switch on on the main pannel. The breaker and the fuse are ok (in the bedroom) I can not find the problem somebody got an answer.

The gas is working fine for the water heater.

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  • How did you check the breakers?
    What type of shore power connection?
    Is your rig 30 or 50 amp?
    Are you using an adapter?
  • yves1956 wrote:
    My Rv is an Holiday Rambler 2003 Admiral SE

    I have a 10 gallons Atwood water heater gas and electric located underneath the sink in the kitchen. The water heater is plugged on a 110 ac outlet. There is no current to the outlet when I put the switch on on the main pannel. The breaker and the fuse are ok (in the bedroom) I can not find the problem somebody got an answer.

    The gas is working fine for the water heater.


    It's not on a GFCI and I checked the breakers.
  • enblethen wrote:
    The receptacle should be hot all the time from the 120 volt AC power distribution panel.
    Some rigs have this receptacle ran through a GFCI receptacle. Locate your GFCI receptacles and check to see if one is tripped.
    Have you reset your circuit breakers? Turn off all circuit breakers applying light pressure toward off. Then turn on main circuit breaker if equipped, and then each of the branch breakers one at a time.
    Get one of the small normally yellow circuit analyzers that plug into the receptacles to identify what is issue.


    X2^^^^^^^^

    Your vintage uses 120V AC directly to water heater element.
    So if no 120V at outlet circuit breaker is tripped OR GFCI is tripped that feeds that outlet.

    IF CB/GFCI tripped could be because WH electric element has shorted.
  • The receptacle should be hot all the time from the 120 volt AC power distribution panel.
    Some rigs have this receptacle ran through a GFCI receptacle. Locate your GFCI receptacles and check to see if one is tripped.
    Have you reset your circuit breakers? Turn off all circuit breakers applying light pressure toward off. Then turn on main circuit breaker if equipped, and then each of the branch breakers one at a time.
    Get one of the small normally yellow circuit analyzers that plug into the receptacles to identify what is issue.