Nothing is guaranteed to get you in and out of the shower faster than cold water, or so the Wife informed me!
Our water heater is a Suburban 10 gal tank, AC/Propane 5 years old. We run a water softener and I keep the tank cleaned out of sediment and change out the anode rod when needed (about every year). We mostly run it on AC so when Tami told me we had no hot water, I walked over to the control panel and flipped it to propane. Came on worked fine for me! Tami was not impressed!
Well once i had my hot shower I started troubleshooting. Nice resistance through heating element so it looks good, but no AC power to it. Backtracking power found little AC switch power in but no power out. OK bad switch. Took the switch out and replaced it with a fuse temporarily, ok, now power to the heating element, water heater working. Downloaded parts break down page from Suburban website. Got online and found the little AC switch for a couple bucks. Also found a replacement heater element $15-20. Both available through Amazon. Ordered two replacement AC switches, one fix one spare, and ordered a new element just to have on hand. All for $30 delivered free and in two days.
Back in business, another day in the RV life, the Wife, happy again!
Now back to our regular schedule program of window latch repair, cleaning out the tracks and treating the gaskets. I'll post up our latch repair and the gross things we found in the gaskets.
Our water heater is a Suburban 10 gal tank, AC/Propane 5 years old. We run a water softener and I keep the tank cleaned out of sediment and change out the anode rod when needed (about every year). We mostly run it on AC so when Tami told me we had no hot water, I walked over to the control panel and flipped it to propane. Came on worked fine for me! Tami was not impressed!
Well once i had my hot shower I started troubleshooting. Nice resistance through heating element so it looks good, but no AC power to it. Backtracking power found little AC switch power in but no power out. OK bad switch. Took the switch out and replaced it with a fuse temporarily, ok, now power to the heating element, water heater working. Downloaded parts break down page from Suburban website. Got online and found the little AC switch for a couple bucks. Also found a replacement heater element $15-20. Both available through Amazon. Ordered two replacement AC switches, one fix one spare, and ordered a new element just to have on hand. All for $30 delivered free and in two days.
Back in business, another day in the RV life, the Wife, happy again!
Now back to our regular schedule program of window latch repair, cleaning out the tracks and treating the gaskets. I'll post up our latch repair and the gross things we found in the gaskets.
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