[C320-list] Disabling leaky water heater

[Doug Treff]

Ferris,

That "Reset Button" is actually a fully functional breaker. If you push it in all the way, it will release nd turn off your WH. I do this all the time. It's just a different style of switch from the toggle you are wishing you had.

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Doug Treff
doug at treff.us


>   On Tue, 23 Aug 2022 at 12:00, Ferris Wills<ferriswills707 at gmail.com> 
> wrote:   
> One thing that struck me as odd: the heater was on whenever I had the 
> AC power on. There is only a “reset” button on the panel. Can I simply 
> replace that with a 15amp breaker so I can turn the heater on/off 
> explicitly? I don’t really want hot water maintained  if I’m away for 
> weeks at a time.