Comments on: Rheem Powervent Gas Water Heater Review http://wetheadmedia.com/rheem-powervent-series-induced-draft-gas-water-heater/ WeT Head Media Provides clear, easy to read Information for The Plumbing, Heating and Pool Industry. Sat, 07 Nov 2009 13:46:18 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Redwood http://wetheadmedia.com/rheem-powervent-series-induced-draft-gas-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 Redwood Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:10:14 +0000 http://wetheadmedia.com/?p=121#comment-2482 Barry, For safety's sake consider getting a Licensed Pro to take care of the problem your water heater is having. The reason your water heater is locking out is the self diagnostics have detected a fault which does not allow safe operation of the unit. Gas appliances while normally very safe and economical have an ugly side where your property can in an instant be reduced to a smoldering pile of toothpicks on a vacant lot or, your entire household doesn't wake up in the morning. Please consider the services of a Licensed Pro. Below is a link for the manual for your unit. Please read the entire manual including all safety notices and warnings. Your codes are on page 32. http://globalimageserver.com/fetchDocument.aspx?id=c0471d58-5e59-4be6-96f7-68361b8fb515 Barry,

For safety’s sake consider getting a Licensed Pro to take care of the problem your water heater is having. The reason your water heater is locking out is the self diagnostics have detected a fault which does not allow safe operation of the unit. Gas appliances while normally very safe and economical have an ugly side where your property can in an instant be reduced to a smoldering pile of toothpicks on a vacant lot or, your entire household doesn’t wake up in the morning. Please consider the services of a Licensed Pro.

Below is a link for the manual for your unit. Please read the entire manual including all safety notices and warnings. Your codes are on page 32.
http://globalimageserver.com/fetchDocument.aspx?id=c0471d58-5e59-4be6-96f7-68361b8fb515

]]> By: BARRY F http://wetheadmedia.com/rheem-powervent-series-induced-draft-gas-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-2481 BARRY F Fri, 18 Sep 2009 20:41:02 +0000 http://wetheadmedia.com/?p=121#comment-2481 I'M TRYING TO FIND ANSWERS TO THE CODE PROBLEMS ON A POWER VENT WATER HEATER AND STARTING TO PULL MY REMAINING HAIR OUT. MANUAL IS NOT VERY HELP FULL AND I CANNOT FIND A RHEEM TROUBLE SHOOTING SITE. GIVE ME BACK THE OLD HEATERS THAT RAN 15 TO 20 YEARS WITH LITTLE OR NO TROUBLE. I’M TRYING TO FIND ANSWERS TO THE CODE PROBLEMS ON A POWER VENT WATER HEATER AND STARTING TO PULL MY REMAINING HAIR OUT. MANUAL IS NOT VERY HELP FULL AND I CANNOT FIND A RHEEM TROUBLE SHOOTING SITE. GIVE ME BACK THE OLD HEATERS THAT RAN 15 TO 20 YEARS WITH LITTLE OR NO TROUBLE.

]]> By: Frustrated http://wetheadmedia.com/rheem-powervent-series-induced-draft-gas-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-2447 Frustrated Mon, 14 Sep 2009 17:39:45 +0000 http://wetheadmedia.com/?p=121#comment-2447 We had a Powervent installed new in our house when we bought it 2.5 years ago. If you don't mind having it serviced or parts replace every 6 months and being stranded without hot water when those incidents happen, its a great hot water heater. Honestly, I really hate this hot water heater. Something this relatively new should not have all these issues to deal with. The owners manual is pretty useless so you have to have an expensive "expert" spend about 20 minutes fixing something you could have easily done yourself (if the manual bothered to tell you how). All the sensors and electronics are complete crap that fail all the time. Rheem must of went with the cheapest possible parts when putting this thing together. We had a Powervent installed new in our house when we bought it 2.5 years ago. If you don’t mind having it serviced or parts replace every 6 months and being stranded without hot water when those incidents happen, its a great hot water heater. Honestly, I really hate this hot water heater. Something this relatively new should not have all these issues to deal with. The owners manual is pretty useless so you have to have an expensive “expert” spend about 20 minutes fixing something you could have easily done yourself (if the manual bothered to tell you how). All the sensors and electronics are complete crap that fail all the time. Rheem must of went with the cheapest possible parts when putting this thing together.

]]> By: Shelby http://wetheadmedia.com/rheem-powervent-series-induced-draft-gas-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-252 Shelby Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:35:10 +0000 http://wetheadmedia.com/?p=121#comment-252 The model number on that Rheem unit (my last post) is Rheem 211T50E-11 The model number on that Rheem unit (my last post) is Rheem 211T50E-11

]]> By: Shelby http://wetheadmedia.com/rheem-powervent-series-induced-draft-gas-water-heater/comment-page-1/#comment-251 Shelby Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:09:12 +0000 http://wetheadmedia.com/?p=121#comment-251 We have (I believe) a Rheem powervent water heater that was installed just a few years ago... For the first time ever it had to be reset over the weekend. This morning it was off again and my husband reset it... my daughter took a shower and when I got up the water heater was running. some 20 minutes later I noticed the water heater was still running and mentioned it to my husband... about 20 minutes later we smelled electrical burning and it had gone out again... and could not be reset (not that we would have wanted to reset it at that point)... I am waiting for a call from my husband to get the exact model number etc... but was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what this could be based on this little information? Thank you and Have a GREAT Day! Shelby :-) We have (I believe) a Rheem powervent water heater that was installed just a few years ago… For the first time ever it had to be reset over the weekend. This morning it was off again and my husband reset it… my daughter took a shower and when I got up the water heater was running. some 20 minutes later I noticed the water heater was still running and mentioned it to my husband… about 20 minutes later we smelled electrical burning and it had gone out again… and could not be reset (not that we would have wanted to reset it at that point)… I am waiting for a call from my husband to get the exact model number etc… but was wondering if anyone had any ideas on what this could be based on this little information?

Thank you and Have a GREAT Day! Shelby :-)

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