Red Neckerson wrote:
wrote


Oh, boy, do I feel dumb. But hopefully someone will learn
something from my embarrassment that will help to keep
them safe.

We have a gas-fired water heater here. It has been our
practice for a while now to cut the thermostat on that to
minima if we are leaving the house for more than a day
at a time. Why pay and waste energy to heat and re-heat
water which no one will use?


SNIP

Next time just turn the breaker off......



Just for the sake of our eduction would you mind telling us where he
would find a breaker that would affect the functioning of a "gas-fired
water heater"? Unless the unit is a high efficiency type that uses
blowers for exhaust and combustion air there is no breaker for a
"gas-fired water heater".
--
Tom Horne

"This alternating current stuff is just a fad. It is much too dangerous
for general use." Thomas Alva Edison