Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had
the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? I've searched for a good illustration that described the electrical hookups to no avail. And with this being a used tank, no instructions are present. Please let me know how to hook this up or please point me to a good illustration on how to do so. Thanks in advance for your help! |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
On Feb 2, 12:24 pm, wrote:
I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? I've searched for a good illustration that described the electrical hookups to no avail. And with this being a used tank, no instructions are present. Please let me know how to hook this up or please point me to a good illustration on how to do so. Thanks in advance for your help! How many wires have you got and what voltage as normal is 2 wires black and white 220 volt |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
Assuming it's a 240 volt tank, You connect two wires to a double pole
circuit breaker of the proper amperage for the wires,(usually #10 wire on 30 amp breaker) and one wire to the ground bar. At the tank there should be a green screw or bare wire to connect the ground to. There is no neutral wrote in message ps.com... I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? I've searched for a good illustration that described the electrical hookups to no avail. And with this being a used tank, no instructions are present. Please let me know how to hook this up or please point me to a good illustration on how to do so. Thanks in advance for your help! |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
It's a 240 - 40 gallon tank. Sounds like I was on the right track.
I'll hook up the hot wires to the two exposed on the tank and attach the ground to the green screw. Thanks again for your help!!! On Feb 2, 1:36 pm, "RBM" rbm2(remove wrote: Assuming it's a 240 volt tank, You connect two wires to a double pole circuit breaker of the proper amperage for the wires,(usually #10 wire on 30 amp breaker) and one wire to the ground bar. At the tank there should be a green screw or bare wire to connect the ground to. There is no neutral wrote in message ps.com... |
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Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
You sound like you havn't done this kind of thing. Please try to
find a wiring diagram for the heater. Also, please find someone experienced to work with you. This is no place to have a "learning curve" moment. -- Christopher A. Young You can't shout down a troll. You have to starve them. .. wrote in message oups.com... It's a 240 - 40 gallon tank. Sounds like I was on the right track. I'll hook up the hot wires to the two exposed on the tank and attach the ground to the green screw. Thanks again for your help!!! |
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Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:02:27 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote: In article om, wrote: I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? Assuming it's a 240V water heater -- there is no neutral. The black and white wires in the supply connect to the two hot leads on the water heater, and the bare wire in the supply connects to the ground on the water heater. That white is SUPPOSED to be red. White is meant to be used for neutral. Someone's used the wrong cable and failed to make the white as red. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com "Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school classes." -- Ted Kennedy |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:02:27 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article om, wrote: I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? Assuming it's a 240V water heater -- there is no neutral. The black and white wires in the supply connect to the two hot leads on the water heater, and the bare wire in the supply connects to the ground on the water heater. That white is SUPPOSED to be red. White is meant to be used for neutral. Someone's used the wrong cable and failed to make the white as red. In what sense is using 10/2 WG to wire a water heater "using the wrong cable"?? -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again. |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
Doug Miller wrote:
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:02:27 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article om, wrote: I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? Assuming it's a 240V water heater -- there is no neutral. The black and white wires in the supply connect to the two hot leads on the water heater, and the bare wire in the supply connects to the ground on the water heater. That white is SUPPOSED to be red. White is meant to be used for neutral. Someone's used the wrong cable and failed to make the white as red. In what sense is using 10/2 WG to wire a water heater "using the wrong cable"?? It's not, but current code would suggest wrapping each end of the white wire with red (or other color that would designate that conductor as "hot") tape. nate -- replace "fly" with "com" to reply. http://home.comcast.net/~njnagel |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:10:17 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote: In article , Mark Lloyd wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:02:27 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article om, wrote: I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? Assuming it's a 240V water heater -- there is no neutral. The black and white wires in the supply connect to the two hot leads on the water heater, and the bare wire in the supply connects to the ground on the water heater. That white is SUPPOSED to be red. White is meant to be used for neutral. Someone's used the wrong cable and failed to make the white as red. In what sense is using 10/2 WG to wire a water heater "using the wrong cable"?? The wires themselves are not wrong. The insulation colors are. It should have black and red, rather than black and white. This could have been corrected by properly identifying the white as being red. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com "Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school classes." -- Ted Kennedy |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:10:17 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article , Mark Lloyd wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:02:27 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article om, wrote: I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? Assuming it's a 240V water heater -- there is no neutral. The black and white wires in the supply connect to the two hot leads on the water heater, and the bare wire in the supply connects to the ground on the water heater. That white is SUPPOSED to be red. White is meant to be used for neutral. Someone's used the wrong cable and failed to make the white as red. In what sense is using 10/2 WG to wire a water heater "using the wrong cable"?? The wires themselves are not wrong. Then why did you say "Someone's used the wrong cable"? The insulation colors are. It should have black and red, rather than black and white. This could have been corrected by properly identifying the white as being red. Or by marking it black, or blue, or yellow, or brown, or purple with pink polka dots and a fluorescent-orange stripe -- basically any color except white, gray, or green. -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again. |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
Do you care to elaborate on where the hell you would purchase a cable with a
black and a red and no white in it? Using a standard black and white 10-2 in this application is perfectly fine if you mark the white wire as a hot. When I ran my 10-2 to my heat pump, I just taped the white with black tape. Done. -- Steve Barker "Mark Lloyd" wrote in message ... The wires themselves are not wrong. The insulation colors are. It should have black and red, rather than black and white. This could have been corrected by properly identifying the white as being red. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com "Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school classes." -- Ted Kennedy |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:22:01 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote: In article , Mark Lloyd wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 22:10:17 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article , Mark Lloyd wrote: On Fri, 09 Feb 2007 11:02:27 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: In article om, wrote: I need to install a used hot water tank into an existing home that had the tank already removed. So looking at the existing hookup is impossible since no tank is there. Two of the wires are hot, so I will simply attach 110V to each wire, of course being on a separate leg off the box. Where does the neutral wire attach? To the ground on the tank? Assuming it's a 240V water heater -- there is no neutral. The black and white wires in the supply connect to the two hot leads on the water heater, and the bare wire in the supply connects to the ground on the water heater. That white is SUPPOSED to be red. White is meant to be used for neutral. Someone's used the wrong cable and failed to make the white as red. In what sense is using 10/2 WG to wire a water heater "using the wrong cable"?? The wires themselves are not wrong. Then why did you say "Someone's used the wrong cable"? "The wrong cable". One with black and white, rather than one with black and red. Where's the problem? The insulation colors are. It should have black and red, rather than black and white. This could have been corrected by properly identifying the white as being red. Or by marking it black, or blue, or yellow, or brown, or purple with pink polka dots and a fluorescent-orange stripe -- basically any color except white, gray, or green. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com "Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school classes." -- Ted Kennedy |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 20:49:18 -0600, "Steve Barker"
wrote: Do you care to elaborate on where the hell you would purchase a cable with a black and a red and no white in it? That, I don't know. Are those sold anywhere? Using a standard black and white 10-2 in this application is perfectly fine if you mark the white wire as a hot. Which I said in me first reply in this thread. When I ran my 10-2 to my heat pump, I just taped the white with black tape. Done. -- Mark Lloyd http://notstupid.laughingsquid.com "Unlike biological evolution. 'intelligent design' is not a genuine scientific theory and, therefore, has no place in the curriculum of our nation's public school classes." -- Ted Kennedy |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 01:22:01 GMT, (Doug Miller) wrote: Then why did you say "Someone's used the wrong cable"? "The wrong cable". One with black and white, rather than one with black and red. Where's the problem? Right he please explain where you propose to buy NM cable containing black, red, and bare wires. -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again. |
Hot Water Tank Wiring Question
In article , Mark Lloyd wrote:
On Fri, 9 Feb 2007 20:49:18 -0600, "Steve Barker" wrote: Do you care to elaborate on where the hell you would purchase a cable with a black and a red and no white in it? That, I don't know. Are those sold anywhere? Perhaps you should have had that figured out before you started spouting this nonsense about someone using "the wrong cable", no? -- Regards, Doug Miller (alphageek at milmac dot com) It's time to throw all their damned tea in the harbor again. |
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