Water heater help
In my two-year-old fiver (Montana 3790RD) I have a Suburban electric/propane water heater that is acting up. So my questions are, at this point, what to troubleshoot. I have not yet look at the water ...
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^^^ I agree this thread is getting hard to follow. So at the risk of redundancy:
Have you verified that the 120 VAC supply to the water heater is solid? I went through a lot of trouble and a couple OP's here suggested the problem could be in a junction/splice box.
In our case, the water heater power connection box has a short lead of ROMEX cable to a junction box right behind the heater. In other words, less than a 3-foot run.
I opened that splice box up and found the the white neutral line had burned its connection out. I didn't replace the box, rather I gutted it and made the connections with wire nuts. The fix turned out to be very easy, but I'd wasted a lot of time checking Element, Thermostat, Two Switches, on and on.
If you have a connection feeding the water heater, that's gone intermittent, it could be causing your sometimes yes/sometimes no, heating issue on electric.
BTW - It's GOOD that Jayco installed the water heater with that short run and then a junction box. There is NO reaching the actual connections on the water heater unless the heater is removed or the cabinet is dismantled.
Have you verified that the 120 VAC supply to the water heater is solid? I went through a lot of trouble and a couple OP's here suggested the problem could be in a junction/splice box.
In our case, the water heater power connection box has a short lead of ROMEX cable to a junction box right behind the heater. In other words, less than a 3-foot run.
I opened that splice box up and found the the white neutral line had burned its connection out. I didn't replace the box, rather I gutted it and made the connections with wire nuts. The fix turned out to be very easy, but I'd wasted a lot of time checking Element, Thermostat, Two Switches, on and on.
If you have a connection feeding the water heater, that's gone intermittent, it could be causing your sometimes yes/sometimes no, heating issue on electric.
BTW - It's GOOD that Jayco installed the water heater with that short run and then a junction box. There is NO reaching the actual connections on the water heater unless the heater is removed or the cabinet is dismantled.
