no such thing as a hot water heater. You do not heat hot
waster, but you do heat water with a water heater
"HeatMan" wrote in message
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"RBM" rbm2(remove wrote in message
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It could be possible, but the hi temp cutout on a water
heater has to be
manually reset, he only flipped the breaker and never
touched the tank

True. But, there is no teling what theose pesky little
electrons may have
done. I've seen it before where the reset tripped when
power was turned
back on....