Something is weird with my water heater...
A couple of trips ago the AC side of the water heat just quit. No warnings like the water not getting as hot as it had, it just stopped working altogether. No worries I thought as the LP side functions well so I put fixing it on the back burner {I know, bad pun}.
It is the standard garden variety Suburban and at 9 years old I really can't complain. Found a great mobile RV mechanic {who is ASE certified as well} and we started finding odd things going on. Turn off the breaker and the unit is AC hot... say what? with a mild but unpleasant aroma of hot electrical. When he put a wrench on the heating element it began to work. He pulled it and and found lots of corrosion. Put in a new element and still had the bad smell and AC with a the breaker off. The anode rod was fine.
All of this made me more than a little nervous and we still don't know what is going on but I am not going to mess around here and had him order a new unit which should be here in a few days. Replacement seems like the way to go especially since we cannot account for the bizarre symptoms.
I'll follow up when we replace the unit and let you know what we find. Has anyone else had a similar experience? For the record I had the limit switches {AC and LP} replaced about 6 years ago and both sides have worked flawlessly since then {until now?} with no other issues.
:h
It is the standard garden variety Suburban and at 9 years old I really can't complain. Found a great mobile RV mechanic {who is ASE certified as well} and we started finding odd things going on. Turn off the breaker and the unit is AC hot... say what? with a mild but unpleasant aroma of hot electrical. When he put a wrench on the heating element it began to work. He pulled it and and found lots of corrosion. Put in a new element and still had the bad smell and AC with a the breaker off. The anode rod was fine.
All of this made me more than a little nervous and we still don't know what is going on but I am not going to mess around here and had him order a new unit which should be here in a few days. Replacement seems like the way to go especially since we cannot account for the bizarre symptoms.
I'll follow up when we replace the unit and let you know what we find. Has anyone else had a similar experience? For the record I had the limit switches {AC and LP} replaced about 6 years ago and both sides have worked flawlessly since then {until now?} with no other issues.
:h
