Hotwater heater on Propane
I had an issue with my hot water heater not working on electric. I had a mobile mechanic come out and he replaced the thermostat and now the electric works fine. This was about a year ago. I wa...
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MetalGator wrote:SolidAxleDurango wrote:
Was the water already HOT when you turned on the propane? Maybe it didn't fire right up because it didn't' need to??
Yes, the water was still hot. I had turned off the electric switch but it had only been off 30 minutes or so. I kind of had this thought myself but the second time I had the electric turned off about an hour but the water was still pretty hot.
Normal t-stat temp is set to OPEN at 130*F and water temp needs to drop below 110*F before normal t-stat will CLOSE (electric & propane same temp settings)
The HI Temp OPENS at 170*F/180*F and has to be manually reset before any heating can occur (by the heat source of which HI Temp Tripped)
HI Temp will not reset until water temp drops below 130*F
