Hot water heater issue - help please!!!

[rockfordroo]

If you have a multi-meter, you can check the heating element. If shows essentially zero ohm resistance, replace it.

[RangeMaggotBob]

Originally Posted by A32Deuce

You can run both at the same time. Great at shower time. Faster recovery!

I never even considered or thought of that. Is this true? You can run both at the same time?!?

[Evereddie]

Originally Posted by tdst51

I never even considered or thought of that. Is this true? You can run both at the same time?!?

Yes and it really speeds up hot water recovery time.

[Dwilcox]

We usually turn the gas off once heated and leave just the electric on till shower time. Kick the gas back on for showers and we can all get thru (Usually 4 of us) with minimal wait time.

[RangeMaggotBob]

Thanks you guys! I really appreciate it.

[RedStick]

I thought I'd provide an update to the issues a few weeks back.

We are currently camping for the long weekend. All systems go!

Once the parts arrived and I carved out some time, I ended up replacing the gas switch located on the control panel - that was a quick fix.

I then ended up replacing the electric switch outside.

Everything else checked out ok - the heating element and everything else looked fine, and tested fine.

I guess the switch outside just fried, and the switch inside had a short as I was able to get that to work previously.

So far so good.

[MNtraveler]

Glad to hear it's resolved. Also glad to learn about the dual heating trick. 😃