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| jetgirly
 |  "Old Gas Hot Water Tank - Two Flames! Help!"
, posted Tue 10 Jun 23:17  
I don't know if this (HVAC) is the right forum to post this, but you guys helped me a few years ago with my thermostat problems! I am on a student exchange in Mexico at the moment, and I live in an apartment building. In our laundry room (just for our unit) we have an old gas hot water heater. If we turn it past the lowest "warm" setting, a small flame appears just inside the tank, very close to the exterior, at the point where all the wires enter the tank (the wires come from our wall and from the heat dial). Once the flame starts, the only way to make it go away is to reduce the water temperature further- to below the lowest "warm" setting, just shy of the "off" position. I've tried calling our landlord for the past two months, but no response (we haven't paid rent in two months!). Any idea what I should do?
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| yuri
| "Re(1):Old Gas Hot Water Tank - Two Flames! H" , posted Wed 11 Jun 18:56:
Are you scared of it? They probably have different types of heaters over there. I imagine it is a direct controlled one where the dial adjusts the burner flame size? The small flame is probably the pilot light or the minimum fire position to maintain the lowest water temp. If you have a digital camera take some pics of it and post them at photobucket. Left click the IMG code and paste it here. If we see it we may have a better idea. I have friends in Europe who have a instantaneous direct heater which may be similar.
Yuri
[this message was edited by yuri on Wed 11 Jun 18:57] |
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