Hot water Heater not working on Electric
When in camp if electric pwr is availbe, I switch our Atwood 6gal Gas/Electric to electric. Last time out, I switched to Gas for travel. That evening I switched back to Electric but it would not enga...
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Dick_B wrote:
We used to do the same thing; rely on electric for virtually all our water heating UNTIL I spent the weekend troubleshooting why our electric did not work and a couple of weeks to fix it. Turned out the switch by the heater melted along with at least one of the power wires to the switch all of which I replaced.
Now we heat on propane and save the electric for emergencies.
Same here. Had the cheap on/off switch fall apart. I took the switch out of the circuit as it really isn't needed because the heater is on its own circuit breaker. If you want to turn the electric off, flip the breaker I still heat with electric unless off grid.
