Whining hot water heater
Have a new Coachmen Freedom Express with an Atwood Gas/Electric water heater. I have had this water heater on several other RV's, but this one makes a high pitched whine. Makes this noise on gas or...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Seeing as you can hear it from circuit board area and it happens when you turn on gas or electric
It has to do with the DC System (Atwood uses DC to control gas & electric that is why there is a circuit board).
I suspect you have AC Ripple occurring......ac ripple is the result of converter changing AC to DC.
Measure ac voltage on either the White wire (electric) or Orange wire (gas) at connector on circuit board when you turn it on. DC voltage is on those wires...but AC Ripple can be measured using voltmeter set to AC Voltage.
Should be .5-.8 AC Voltage measured....higher than that converter is not filtering.
Thanks again for any input, but it does it whether or not the converter is on. Either flipping the converter breaker off, or unplugging the RV altogether, still whines. So, definitely a DC issue. What is in the circuit board that can make a whining noise?
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