Hot water heater

Effy wrote:
Why would you need to heat hot water?


Sorry - couldn't resist.

Beat me to it... must be one of those REALLY fancy coaches... LOL!

No offense to the OP.

If it is a Suburban water heater there may be a switch outside on the water heater itself. Remove the outside water heater grill/cover and look at the lower left hand corner of the water heater for a small rocker switch. That is the only way to turn mine off/on on electric other than using the circuit breaker as an on/off switch, not something they are really intended for.

Why would you need to heat hot water?


Sorry - couldn't resist.

FIRST!!!!!!!! make sure the tank is full or you,ll burn out the electric element.

In the lack of manual or owner of identical coach, you will have to trace the wire and do some try by error attempts.
I can't imagine electric element hard wired with no switch.
Also all DSI (?) burners do have switch with control light. Those lights are working strangely as they come on when you flip the switch, than after few seconds go off unless there is a problem.
Mine had no on/off marking so got me confused few times.

On our '95 Affinity, we turned on the electric for the water heater with the circuit breaker--we had no other switch for the electric element. We had a switch in front of the sink to turn the propane on--it was not labeled, but had a light that came on when the propane was ignited.