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08-12-2020, 02:37 PM
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Junior Member
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Water Heater Help - Georgetown
The previous owner of our 2008 378 installed a PrecisionTemp tankless water heater. It doesnt work well for dry camping and am thinking I may change back to a traditional water heater. Problem is I dont know what was previously installed. I gather that my rig came with a 10 gallon water heater as OE? Was this a DSI/electric or just a gas only unit? Also, do they come with the DSI which auto lights or do you have to manually light with pilot light? My control panel inside only has an on/off switch labeled water heater which currently turns the tankless unit control panel on or off. Also has the red reset light on control panel inside. I'd like to go in with a retrofit gas/electric combo heater but dont understand how that would work with the one on/off switch inside. Can anybody provide any insight? Thanks
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08-13-2020, 08:13 AM
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Mar 2020
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Can you please provide the VIN# for your XL? Then I can get with our service and see exactly what hot water heater unit was installed in 2008. Have a great day!
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08-13-2020, 08:55 AM
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In your circuit breaker panel is there a circuit breaker that is/was labeled HWH/water heater etc.? If so the water heater was most likely a Suburban gas/electric 10 gallon. DSI refers to Direct Spark Ignition for the propane side of the heater and it sounds like you have the switch and reset light for the propane side. If the switch is part of your original convenience panel it sounds like the switch was re-purposed for the tankless water heater. The Suburban water heater has the electric side switch on the heater itself.
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08-13-2020, 07:21 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Cdefrees
Can you please provide the VIN# for your XL? Then I can get with our service and see exactly what hot water heater unit was installed in 2008. Have a great day!
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The Ford VIN? 16 digit?
Or is there another VIN from FR.
If there is a FR VIN, I've never seen it, only the Ford VIN.
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08-13-2020, 07:23 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bubbles
In your circuit breaker panel is there a circuit breaker that is/was labeled HWH/water heater etc.? If so the water heater was most likely a Suburban gas/electric 10 gallon. DSI refers to Direct Spark Ignition for the propane side of the heater and it sounds like you have the switch and reset light for the propane side. If the switch is part of your original convenience panel it sounds like the switch was re-purposed for the tankless water heater. The Suburban water heater has the electric side switch on the heater itself.
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I'll look but I do know all the labels in the panel are hand written in cursive so I assumed these were written in by the original owner (maybe wrong). If so, this may not provide any insight
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08-13-2020, 07:36 PM
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Site Team
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Location: Northeast Louisiana
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redeye0315
The Ford VIN? 16 digit?
Or is there another VIN from FR.
If there is a FR VIN, I've never seen it, only the Ford VIN.
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The FR VIN label may be inside a cabinet, like one over a sink. Have you looked there?
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08-13-2020, 07:47 PM
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Junior Member
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Quote:
Originally Posted by wmtire
The FR VIN label may be inside a cabinet, like one over a sink. Have you looked there?
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Yes, thats where the big sticker is, has a vin on it starting with F1, F something, I believe F1 is a ford VIN. I'll take a picture of it
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08-13-2020, 08:39 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redeye0315
Yes, thats where the big sticker is, has a vin on it starting with F1, F something, I believe F1 is a ford VIN. I'll take a picture of it
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They work off the Ford VIN.
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08-14-2020, 07:08 AM
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Commercial Member
Join Date: Mar 2020
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yes the Ford chassis VIN
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08-14-2020, 07:38 AM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2012
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Quote:
Originally Posted by redeye0315
I'll look but I do know all the labels in the panel are hand written in cursive so I assumed these were written in by the original owner (maybe wrong). If so, this may not provide any insight
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My GT378 is a 2012 and the CB labeling is hand written from the factory.
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08-14-2020, 07:43 AM
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Kanadian Kamper
Join Date: Sep 2010
Location: Southern Ontario
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bubbles
In your circuit breaker panel is there a circuit breaker that is/was labeled HWH/water heater etc.? If so the water heater was most likely a Suburban gas/electric 10 gallon. DSI refers to Direct Spark Ignition for the propane side of the heater and it sounds like you have the switch and reset light for the propane side. If the switch is part of your original convenience panel it sounds like the switch was re-purposed for the tankless water heater. The Suburban water heater has the electric side switch on the heater itself.
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After reading the info from redeye, about switches and lights, I think bubbles has nailed it for your original water heater equipment. You posted it’s a 2008 Georgetown, and our 2010 Georgetown had one switch and red light on the command center which operated the water heater on propane. The Suburban (if propane and electric) had the electric switch located in the very bottom left corner, accessible from outside. Ours was also 10 gallon.
The model was SWDE10.
Bubbles knows of which he speaks!
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