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Skipg
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Aug 10, 2019

Maintaining air gap in new Atwood water heater

I am familiar with the procedure of how to get an air gap in a RV water heater to prevent pressure valve leak, but this new Atwood water heater just will not maintain the air gap. Do you think it i...
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CaLBaR
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Aug 10, 2019
Skipg wrote:
I am familiar with the procedure of how to get an air gap in a RV water heater to prevent
pressure valve leak, but this new Atwood water heater just will not maintain the air gap.
Do you think it is A bad relief valve? Thanks for your feed back.


I have never tried to get an air gap and never had an issue with a leaking pressure relief valve either. I would think if your pressure relief valve is leaking under normal use than it is defective.

Rob

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