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Posted by ianjones on June 1, 2006, 11:37 pm
I assume this was a reply to my water heater shock issue. Can you
elaborate on checking "each leg"? I am pretty handy but a pure novice
when it comes to electrical issues. The unit is 9 years old, perhaps a
new water heater is in order!
Nonnymus wrote:
> First of all, I'd kill power and check continuity between
> the bare wire and a known ground source, such as the
> grounding buss in the breaker panel. There should be
> virtually no resistance. It could be a double problem,
> with an open ground being one but my instinct is that you
> have an element shorting to the water. It'd produce enough
> voltage to buzz you, but it might not be enough to trip the
> breaker.
>
> The other thing I'd check is the water heater. I'd check
> each leg to the water heater's ground. There should be
> infinite resistance, as in "open." Personally, I bet that
> at least one leg shows some resistance, telling me that an
> element is shorting to the water.
>
> If it was my house, I'd take the time to simply rebuild the
> electric heater.
>
> First of all, drain it well and get any crud out of it.
> Remove both elements and replace them with the low
> temperature ones. They are the wavey ones and will last a
> lot longer- especially in harder water. While you're at it,
> I'd replace both the upper and lower thermostats. When
> you've done that, you essentially have a new electric heater.
>
> Nonnymus
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