Re: Emergency Water Turn-Off?

["AZ Woody" <Reply@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

There's one in the pilot flame that won't allow gas to the main burner if
there's no pilot, but there's another to check the water temp.  How else
could the temp of the water be determined?  Not by the heat of the flame....

The "Thermostat" (which, IIRC, uses a thermocouple - with a lesser range -
inside the tank) setup works for both gas and electric, and (we all hope)
that there is no flame in an electric HW!

The "Thermostat" instructs the heat to go on/off.


"Matt" <mattmorgan64@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Ah yea, AZ!
>
> Hmmm more questions - I dunno....
>
> But doesn't the thermocouple only sit in the pilot flame, not the
> burner flame?
>