On Aug 20, 3:00*pm, Van Chocstraw
wrote:
Mikepier wrote:
I'm going away for a week and I wanted to put my gas HW heater in
"vacation mode". In the past I noticed that even if I turn down the T-
stat dial, it still comes on, although the water temp is lower than
the usual 140 deg. Am I better off just putting the gas valve to
"pilot" instead of "on", that way I know for sure it will stay off?

Why don't you turn it to "off" instead of "pilot"?? Cut the main gas
feed to it off and kill the power to it, if any. Can't be that hard to
light.

Maybe because for the ~10cents worth of gas it isn't worth the trouble.