Water Heater and Water Pump

Nate wrote:
> Your water pump and the city water connection do the same thing...they
> both presurize the water system. You only need one to move water
> through your water heater or any other part of the water system in the
> rig. You will never need both if it is properly hooked up. A properly
> mounted and operating water pump will shut itself off if the system is
> presurized so I doubt you'll hurt the pump by using it while connected
> to city water.

If you are in a park with low pressure, the pump will run when you open
a faucet and the pressure gets low enough. A neighbor of ours in the
Lake Corpus KOA learned that lesson while burning out two pumps in a new MH.
LZ

I see where mthompson9@ contributed:

> . . . . . I assume that if I shut off
>the water inlet to the heater that it will be smart enough not to try
>to heat a dry tank?

That would be a bad assumption.

Will Sill
The Curmudgeon of Sill Hill

mthompson9@ wrote: I assume that if I shut off the water inlet to
the heater that it will be smart enough not to try to heat a dry tank ?

I don't think they make a smart water heater.
Every electric water heater I have ever seen has big stickers all over it
saying ?make sure the tank is full of water before turning it on".


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JerryD(upstateNY)