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rvexodus
Explorer
May 04, 2018

Electrical Smell? Water heater? Need some help!

Today after running both propane and electric heating on our suburban water heater, we started to smell a funny smell. It didn’t smell like rotten egg or any of the common smells. And we had a hard ti...
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donn0128
Explorer II
May 04, 2018
Suburban water heaters have sharp edges. Electric wires run across those sharp edges. Also check the temp limit switches. Also not u common for them to burn.

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