water heater?

[delcon88]

To all Sunline 5er owners (so many of us)do any of you have the Gas/electric water heaters.just found out that mine is(by accident) the only power switch I could find was on the unit or the breaker check yours out and let me know what you find please.own the thing for 8 yrs and still finding thing on it

[Steve Collins]

Ours was like that. Had a little rocker switch on the top of the HW heater, and the breaker in the panel.

I left the breaker shut off at all times because our primary camping is dry, and I did not want the generator to ever power that heating element.

Regardless of how you use your HW heater, it is always a good idea to shut that breaker off when winterizing to prevent accidental power to the element while the HW tank is drained.

[hardybus]

My 5th wheeler water heater is gas only, can't help you on this one.....

[EMD_Driver]

Hey Paul...

I replaced the WH in our 311, just after we bought it. It seems that someone else needed the original worse than we did..

The original unit was gas and electric, but we couldn't control the electric from the switch panel. When I installed the new one, it was wired for a remote switch.

If you want an easy access switch.. Turn the WH switch on and leave it that way. Just use the circuit breaker (In, with the converter), to turn it on and off.. It's a lot easier to get to!

[Trailblazer]

Originally Posted by delcon88

To all Sunline 5er owners (so many of us)do any of you have the Gas/electric water heaters.just found out that mine is(by accident) the only power switch I could find was on the unit or the breaker check yours out and let me know what you find please.own the thing for 8 yrs and still finding thing on it

WOW!, I can't believe I just noticed this post. When we first got our unit, the dealer told us it was a gas unit only. I only discovered it was a gas/electric unit by accident. i was looking at adding a hot rod element to convert the unit to electric and I needed to get the size of our tank. When looking for the model we I had, I notice it said it had a 1500W heater element. I went searching online for the manual and it showed me where the on/off switch was. As Steve Collins said, we found an on/off rocker switch on the back of the hot water tank. I have since relocated that rocker switch up to where the on/off LP gas switch is for the heater.