Rheem 53 g.water heater wiring Dia.
2006-12-19 11:32:05 · 6 answers · asked by wd_hnsn 1 in Home & Garden ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
Not quite sure what your talking about? The wiring of most water heaters are 220V, 30amps, and use a 10/3 wire. The orange kind at home depot or any other electrical supplier. If you connect it, be sure to use bx 90 connector to armor flex, connected to a 4" square, with an on/off switch. The rest of the homerun goes back to the panel, and onto a 30amp 2pole breaker.
2006-12-19 11:40:58 · answer #1 · answered by TheDiciple 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
USA If you mean 10 gauge/3 wire WITH GROUND, either option is acceptable. An electric water heater element is 220 volt with no neutral. You can use 10/2 with ground, and use both the black and white as a hot conductor, and the bare as a ground. But, with 10/3 with ground, you have a black, red, white and bare ground. Use the black and red as the hot conductors. Use the bare as the ground. Leave the white disconnected, or hook it up to the same ground bar in the panel and at the same spot in the water heater as the bare ground.
2016-05-22 22:18:58 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you installing the unit or are you just curious about how it functions? 220 volts is the minimum required voltage to operate the appliance. In the U.S. that means that it requires a 2-pole circuit breaker feeding the heater.
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2006-12-19 11:42:51 · answer #3 · answered by tropicalturbodave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the thing should have three wires going to it. Two are hot and one is common the red and black hook to the thermostat and the whits hooks to the heater itself
2006-12-19 11:42:17 · answer #4 · answered by roy40372 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
what do u mean the internal wiring or the top where the wires hook up,with the black and red(or white)?
2006-12-19 11:41:29 · answer #5 · answered by b 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2006-12-19 12:46:39 · answer #6 · answered by pellco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋