🔧 Technical Electric Water Heater Issues

[SleeperLS]

A couple of days ago my upper element burned up, so I replaced it and I have been unable to get hot water since. For some reason the 4500w elements are only pulling 4.7 amps.
I checked each thermostat and each heating element and all checks out perfectly fine. I completely drained and cleaned out the water heater as well. I am getting 235 volts to the heater and elements as well. So I am at a loss now.

what could cause the heating elements to only pull less than a 1/3 of the amps they are supposed to? I would appreciate any thoughts at all. Thanks dudes.

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[SleeperLS]

Pretty much already figured out my multimeter will not read the 18 some amps I should be seeing. Probably has something to do with it. Still confused on why the water isn’t heating up though.

 

[Spivitz]

Man, wish I could help.
Last three nights I have to hit the breaker button on my electric water heater or cold morning shower city.

I think my thermostat is "funky"

 

[SleeperLS]

Hot water is the bees knees. Although I don’t need coffee to wake up every morning with a cold shower going on.

I feel like there might be a hole in the dip tube, but that fucker is seized in there bad and I can’t get it out to check

 

[SleeperLS]

Well shit. I am confident now the heater is fine. Did another walk around the house this morning and the ground was wet outside the wall the water heater is behind. Pretty sure a hot water line broke. Not good.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I know your plight, I’m going on a week now without hot water. Hoping the correct fix shows up today. Shipping has been so unreliable on everything I’ve tried to get.

 

[SleeperLS]

I know your plight, I’m going on a week now without hot water. Hoping the correct fix shows up today. Shipping has been so unreliable on everything I’ve tried to get.

That absolutely sucks. Shipping is brutal these days. I ran around town finding parts I initially needed because everything online was set to arrive the week after next. Problem with some of the parts is they didn’t have them in town but thankfully I didn’t end up needing those. Good luck mano

 

[SleeperLS]

Looks like digging a car sized hole is in my future tomorrow. Dug down a bit today as a guess and turned the water back on. I found you, you son of a bitch. Or, at least the general area.

 

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[Bob Kazamakis]

So is that the line in to the house or do you have a crawl space this is leaking out of?

 

[SleeperLS]

So is that the line in to the house or do you have a crawl space this is leaking out of?

From what I can tell it is the hot water line coming out of the heater and going down into the slab. I am just hoping that the copper pipe shoots below the slab so it can be dug up and fixed. Not sure I want to be any part of tearing into the foundation and having to fix it after

 

[Spivitz]

This thread reminded me to see if my my breaker tripped

Again

Nope