after waiting several hours still no hot water coming out the faucet.
Something has seriously went wrong and I have no clue what.

If I turn on the cold water faucet in the kitchen the heater will make
noises.

Is it possible after I switched off the main breaker for the house, it
will cause the heater to turn itself off? This Bradford White 50
gallong heater has two panels (one on top and one at the bottom). If I
unscrew them there is a red button and a whitel button inside each
panel. Not sure what those are. It is possible I need to re-activate
something?

Any help would be appreciated. My wife is yelling at me for making a
perfectly good water heater bad now.

Cuse

Cuse wrote:

It seems keeping the kitchen faucet running I got the tank filled now.
However I am not sure if it is partially filled or fully filled. I
took a chance after the filling sound stopped. The heater started and
the sound seems OK, sounds like a whirlpool being turned on.

After 10 minutes I still have my kitchen faucet running, then the
water shot out with lower volume, higher volume, fluctuating like
crazy. There must be air and/or pressure imbalance somewhere. Should
I open the pressure relief valve on top of the tank?

What really happened?

When I drained the water I had the relief valve opened. so as the
water drained is sucked air into the tank? and when I closed the drain
and valve the air in the tank prevented the water from entering the
tank until I turn the kitchen faucet on to draw air out? Is this right?

Confused and still not sure I will get hot water tonight.

Cuse

Cuse wrote:

This is unlikely. The resistance is about the same either way and
not different from when I first touched it.

I did noticed something strange. If I turn on the water in my
kitchen, I hear activity inside the tank that sounds like refilling.
If I turned off the water, it stops. Not all faucet in my house will
cause this, but some of them. Why?

Some sort of pressure problem created by the draining?

I did pulled the tempearture pressure relief valve during the
draining. Pulling means pushing that lever until it is 90 %
(vertical) right?

Cuse

SoCalMike wrote:

"Cuse" wrote in message
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Problem...

I went to turn off the cold water and as I turned the valve it kept
turning. It does not seem to be tightening or loosening at all as I
turned the valve either way. I think it is broken for some reason.





you probably tightened it shut, then stripped the handle. id
probably try to
put some vicegrips on the stem, and reopen the valve.