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ricelake922
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Jul 26, 2017

Black wire attached to hot water element burnt out

Hello. I have a 1996 Monaco Dynasty that has a Suburban hot water heater. While on my last outing I was plugged into 30 amp shore power. I used my hot water for a few days on electric and then it s...
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Old-Biscuit
Explorer III
Jul 27, 2017
dougrainer wrote:
Above the element is a black plastic cover with 2 rubber grommets. remove the cover. to your left is the 120 tstat/ECO. the black wire goes from that tstat down to the element. The other black wire goes to the ON/OFF switch to the left of the element. Snake the new wire down using the other wire to feed it. The wire Burnt. THAT will not cause a short which would trip a breaker. Doug


Bottom black wire coming off normal temp t-stat.....to electric element





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