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SureStor Water Heater - Thermal Breaker Tripping
"Walt Bilofsky" wrote in message ... Thanks for all the comments. Eisboch, you must be an engineer - you are right on top of the problem. Used to be. But the years are now producing more of a brain dead state. But ... you know what? .... I kinda like it. Eisboch |
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SureStor Water Heater - Thermal Breaker Tripping
Bad and or incompetent design. I see your problem; when the tank has
been heated with coolant, then when in slip and connected to shore power, or on the genny, the heater is inop on AC because the breaker has tripped. I suggest removing the device, studying it, and finding a replacement or adjusting this one for 195° setting. Perhaps finding an auto-reset model, or at least re-mounting the device so it is accessible with out undue effort, or making some kind of lever device for accessing it easily. JR Walt Bilofsky wrote: Has anyone else has run into this problem with their boat's hot water heater? The problem is that once the water is heated up by the hot engine coolant, the 110 v. electric water heating stops working, because a thermal overload breaker on the heater trips. The heater runs on engine heat or 110 v. The thermostat on the heater includes a thermal breaker that trips when the tank goes above 170 degrees. The normal operating temperature of my Volvo diesel engines is 175-180 degrees. So eventually the engine coolant heats the water above 170, and the thermal breaker pops. Now the heater won't work on 110 v. until the thermal breaker is reset. (This requires disassembling the panel on the heater to get to the breaker.) Does anyone else run into this problem? Any ideas for a workaround? The heater is a SureStor SS-12M made by Advanced Heat Transfer. -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth |
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