If you have a water heater and it is running out of hot water quickly and you are not sure what is going on, you wanna check your elements and your thermostats, and they're behind these two panels on an electric water heater. I have already disconnected the power and verified it. I do have a sensor here.
Um, but just to make sure
I have no, no power. So
put that away. All right, now weigh these work. This is your thermostat. This is your element. The way you want to check an element is the most common way is to check for continuity. The way you would do that is you would disconnect the two wires going to the element, get those pulled up and out of the way.
Um, I like to tighten the screws back in. I don't think you necessarily need to do this, but I just like to do it anyway. So we're gonna tighten the screws back in. I'm gonna put my meter on continuity. And I'm gonna put my leads on each one of these terminals. So one goes on that screw, one goes on that screw.
So that tells me that I'm getting a signal all the way through the element. So without pulling out the element and visually inspecting it, I'm gonna assume that that is good based off of the continuity test.
