retiredtravelers2013 wrote:
We have been on our first winter trip for about 10 weeks now. We are presently in Canton,Ms.
Yesterday my wife took a nice hot shower. About an hour later I went to take one and had no hot water.
We have a 10 gallon water heater that runs on either AC or propane. We have always run it on AC to preserve propane. I checked the AC breaker and it was fine. There is a lighted switch in the bathroom signaling when the AC heater is on. That was lit.
I tried to turn on the propane heater this morning and after a false start it did come on. At least we do have hot water now.
Do any of you smart people have any ideas? Besides a burned out element?
Thanks in advance
Keld
If yours is like my Atwood water heater, there are two switches that allow you to use propane, 120 volt AC, or both. The 12 volts that feeds these switches also powers the circuit board that ignites the propane. The 12 volts also is used to light up the two switches to indicate that either one or both are turned on. That indicator light is only 12 volts so it does not actually mean that there is 120 volts at the water heater, even if the 12 volt indicator light is lit. I would suspect that either you do not actually have 120 volts at the water heater, the 120 volt thermostat on the water heater is bad, or the heating element is bad.