Replaced Elements In Hot Water Heater Now Does’nt Work?
Is there another breaker /fuse , other than red button up by the top element?
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7 Responses to “Replaced Elements In Hot Water Heater Now Does’nt Work?”
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February 7th, 2010 at 10:13 pm
Check the circuit breaker in your main panel. You should have tripped it before attempting the repairs.
February 8th, 2010 at 2:01 am
there may be one on the lower unit, use a volt meter set on 240v to check if there is voltage going to the elements, place one probe to the wire,[screw] and the other to the ground, check both sides, and both elements, try reseting the breaker, turn off [push it to off side], then back on, if no voltage is present the temp control is bad,
February 8th, 2010 at 8:55 am
maybe your thermostat is broken
February 8th, 2010 at 11:20 am
As long as you had replaced the water heater elements, with the same as the one’s you took out, they should be working correctly, you have red reset buttons on each of them, be sure they hadn’t tripped because of maybe hooking the wires backwards!!!!, re-look at the wiring, to make sure you rewired them correctly, If in fact there wired right, and the resets aren’t tripped, go to the main fuse box of your home, and check the fuse for the water heater in that box, It will be a double fused switch!
That is most likely the problem! Some times the red reset buttons for the water heater elements malfunction and don’t work the way they should when they get real old etc.and won’t trip the red trip botton units, if the water heater tank had been empty of water to long, then the house main fuse box safety switch would trip then in your fuse box as a main safety protection!
The Red trip button units have been known to go out too! you may need to replace them units too! the elements may not have been bad, if they hadn’t been melted etc. the safety red trip button units may have quit working! I had to replace a few of them to in my time!
If that isn’t the problem, re-check the heat elements for being the same identical as the ones you had replace, they have to be exactly the same! There are many different sizes! just because the coil shapes are the same, doesn’t mean you can use them! There’s product ID numbers right where you hook the wire’s to the elements! all it would take is one being hooked up wrong and the other one won’t work either if you have double elements. and make sure the wire’s that hook to the elements are very secure! and not touching anything else but the screws that tighten them down!
The worse senerio is you didn’t wait until the water heater tank was completely full before you had turned the power back onto the water heater after replacing the elements! and the new elements burned out! Which in that case you would have to do the process all over! if in fact the main house fuse box safety switch was tripped for the water heater, and after you push the switch back on and if it trips again! you most likely have the elements wired wrong, or the elements you replaced are the wrong ones or they burned out because of not having enough water in the tank when you turned the power back on to the water tank.
February 8th, 2010 at 1:52 pm
turn off the breaker on the circuit board hopefully someone before you marked it on the list of circuits or fuses if not you will see circuits bigger than the others or if fuses most will be 15 or 20 try the bigger numbers turn one off at a time see what they go to by process of elimination you should figure it out if you have a meter put it on the contacts make sure its dead or you can make one get what is called a pigtail a light socket with wires attached put in a good light bulb and one wire hold to one terminal the other pigtail to the other terminal if the light does not light you cut the juice your OK to change the element
February 8th, 2010 at 3:26 pm
Double check the element installation. Also your thermostat could be faulty, preventing the circuit from going to the element.
February 8th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
Ok you have the red button and most likely a disconnecting means nearby that could be either fused or circuit breaker protected. If it has fuses one could be blown and the other not allowing you to have power but only one phase. One of them probably blew when the element went. Or the circuit breaker feeding it has been tripped, but you should have had all of that shut off while you disconnected and replaced the element. Post what you find as there are more elaborate tests I can walk you through if you have the proper meter.
Best Regards