Water heater gets hot, no hot water at fascets, hot water comes out pop off valve. water comes out hide if I turn on water heater by pass.atwood model ge16te 10 gal says xt on paperwork. turned power off and let water cool, turned off circut braker. turned off water and released pressure at pop off valve, turned on both showers and both sinks cold and hot water. worked fine most of yesterday. stopped work last yesterday after noon.

SOURCE: Water is either hot or cold - no in between.

I found a way to get warm water in the shower, but I'm not sure it qualifies as a solution. After trying everything else I thought that maybe when I was feathering the faucet in the shower toward the cold side so I would get warm water that at a certain point it blocked the flow on the hot water side enough so that the sensor in the hot water heater sensed there was no demand in the line and it shut the water heater off. To test this, I went to the kitchen and turned the kitchen sink faucet all the way to the hot side and then turned it on so that I got a small flow of water. I waited for the water to get hot to be sure the hot water heater was working. Once it was hot, I left it running to keep demand in the line and then I went to the shower and turned the faucet on. When the water got hot I started feathering the control towards the cold side and soon I had warm water. So I think I'm right in that the sensor in the hot water heater was shutting the water heater off when the demand in the shower was lowered to a certain point when I was trying to adjust the water temp in the shower.

So now I can get warm water, but it means I have to leave the hot water running at another fixture in the house to create a false demand in the system so the hot water heater doesn't shut down. Is there a way to adjust the senor in the hot water heater so that it will stay on when I'm using the shower only, so I don't have to waste water by running another faucet when I want to take a shower?

SOURCE: hot water does not come out

I pulled the water heater out of the rv and found the one way value broken and cloged.replaced with new one $9.12 and put back together.works great.

snap101

• 117 Answers
• Posted on Aug 01, 2009

SOURCE: water heater working fine but very little hot water coming out

alot of time those small units do not have a fast recovery rate so if they are on for a min or more they might start to lose temperature. if it's on demand especially in cooler climates it might not have enough power to heat it up and keep up with your demand

Mike Butler

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• Posted on Oct 31, 2010

SOURCE: Have a 2005 coach w/Atwood

You need to check by-pass valve(s) on back of tank for proper position. You need cold open going in to bottom tank fitting, and hot open at top. If any valves in between those 2 lines via "T"'s, turn them to off position.