wolfe10 wrote:
Rhalium wrote:
can the water heater work just fine on propane, yet still not work on 120 volt electric solely cause of the "element" located inside the hot water heater tank? in other words, the hot water will work fine on propane, but not work on electric cause of a bad element?
Certainly.
If the propane-side is working fine (12 VDC, good propane supply, thermocouple good, etc) all is good on propane.
If 120 VAC is not powering the heating element, it will not work. Could be issue with shore power, breaker, fuse in water heater PC board or burned out 120 VAC heating element-- will not work.
Basically two "mostly" unrelated heating sources. PC board being the point in common.
Thx. The common thread in all of this seems to be the heating element that is located inside the hot water tank. I know that I have a voltmeter and that I can use it to test the heating element, is that right? More than likely it is the heating element as that is what seems to be the common thread. Now, I need to see about shutting off the bypass valve to the hot water tank and then draining the tank itself. Then to replace the element, is that how you do it?
