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Topic: Water heater...gain

Posted By: dansanmo
Subject: Water heater...gain
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2019 at 9:00pm

hello all,

I am finally taking my 2011 173T on its maiden voyage. Everything was going fine until I turned on the hot water heater. After about 5 minutes the lp alarm starts wailing. I had to pull the fuse to stop it. I also turned off the inside switch that that was not working anyway with the fuse pulled. Does the heater work on electric if I only have the outside switch turned on? Thanks for your input.

Dan

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Dan&Sandy

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Posted By: offgrid
Date Posted: 18 Jun 2019 at 11:11pm

The water heater works independently on both propane (with 12Vdc for control), and 120Vac. To run on 120Vac electric you need to be connected to a pedestal or other AC source, have the outside on/off switch turned ON, and have the dedicated circuit breaker in the panel (the one labelled water heater) turned ON.

Remember to turn either the circuit breaker and/or the outside switch to OFF when there is no water in the tank or you will burn out the heating element.

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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft
2015 Rpod 179 - sold

Posted By: TheBum
Date Posted: 19 Jun 2019 at 10:17am

How is the health of your battery and was it charged? The LP/CO detector will trigger if the 12V voltage drops below a certain point. This should only be an issue if you're boondocking or the converter is dead.

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Alan
2022 R-Pod 196 "RaptoRPod"
2022 Ram 1500 Lone Star 4x4
Three cats