Atwood water heater

[Tincup]

I had a problem whereby the water in the tank would only reach a temp of 94 degs both on electric and gas. I read several posts and looked at all the wiring, cleaned contacts, checked voltages, etc. Everything looked good but still not getting hot water. Well after reading more posts I cam across the "outside shower" comment, that it must be turned completely off or it acts as a bypass. Well I never use the outside shower so for two days i didn't bother to check it. This morning after taking a tepid shower I went out and checked it. Lo and behold, both cold and hot were open about one turn each. I closed them and almost immediately had 140 deg hot water.

The moral of this story is, check the easy stuff first then if that doesn't resolve the problem, tear it apart.

So if you have tepid water the first thing to do is turn off the outside shower .

Tincup

[Tincup]

I had a problem whereby the water in the tank would only reach a temp of 94 degs both on electric and gas. I read several posts and looked at all the wiring, cleaned contacts, checked voltages, etc. Everything looked good but still not getting hot water. Well after reading more posts I cam across the "outside shower" comment, that it must be turned completely off or it acts as a bypass. Well I never use the outside shower so for two days i didn't bother to check it. This morning after taking a tepid shower I went out and checked it. Lo and behold, both cold and hot were open about one turn each. I closed them and almost immediately had 140 deg hot water.

The moral of this story is, check the easy stuff first then if that doesn't resolve the problem, tear it apart.

So if you have tepid water the first thing to do is turn off the outside shower .

Tincup

[John Harrelson]

Great post TINCUP.

Every summer there are several discussions on this very topic..

Maybe you could copy and paste this post on all the other RV forums on the internet so as to reach all the RVing Family..

John

[Superslif]

Fuuny you should have this problem. While camping last weekend a fellow IRV2 member had the same problem on a new class C. They did checked everything. Then they posted there problem on either IRV2 or some other RV forum site and were told to check the outside shower. And yup that was the problem too. We have been using our hot water heater lately and also the outside shower. I'll have to remember to turn it off or just use either just the hot or just the cold for the outside shower. Good Post