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Amtrol WHS-80Z - WHS-80Z 80Gal Hot Wtr Makr Questions & Answers
ER3 error code on amtrol hot water tank
Simply means hot water heater called for heat for 1 hour and never rose in temperature or reach stepping, unit automatically goes into lockout. I would reset power
Why the hot water temperature couldn't reach the set temperature (130 degree) in Amtrol WHS80Z indirect water heater?
I have a couple of thoughts. You may have air in the boiler water circuit at the loop that feeds the tank. You'll have to find the vent in the loop to get it out. Second, the automatic valve that opens for hot water may not be opening fully. Have you felt both the boiler water lines that go in and out of the tank? If the water going in is hot and the line out is very cold you have very little boiler water going through the loop. Make sure the isolation valves on the loop are open. Is your boiler full of water? If the boiler loop lines are hot going in and coming out, the tank is full of rust or debris and no water can get to the fins on the internal tubing to pick up heat. If that's the case there is no repair and its time to get a new tank. Hope this helps good luck.
IS MY HEAT EXCHANGER FOWLED
So you get an E-3 error and nothing you seem to do corrects the issues, I had this happen to me once and what I found is that my boiler system side was working perfectly but the water heater took forever to recover and get up to temp causing alarms. What I did was take my Delta T across the heat exchanger and found that it was only 10'F meaning that the conductivity in my system was very poor. I decided to remove the heat exchanger from the boiler mate and found that the exchanger had sediment build-up almost 2 " think. Now imagine this, say you have a bucket of water and you throw a 300'F piece of metal into the water, naturally heat conduction causes the original water temp to rise Now say we take the same piece of metal @ 300'F and wrap it in a blanket, now the temp giving off 300'F originally is more like 90'F with the blanket over it. Throw the metal wrapped in a blanked into a bucket of water. Now ask yourself which will heat the bucket of water up quicker? Obviously supplying 300'F to the bucket of water will heat water up faster than supplying 90'F. this is exactly the concept of a fowled heat exchanger. You want to get rid of sediment (blanket) on the heat exchanger to make the system heat up faster and require less energy to get that water to a certain setpoint
Amtrol hot maker too hot
seems to me aqua stat or thermistor is not reading temps correctly or temp setting is not correct
Beeping noise
E2 means hot water over shot, make sure to check boiler hot water system to make sure zone valve or control is staying closed when the call for boiler hot water to the water heater is isolated. Sometimes a zone valve will fail open or not close properly causing hot boiler water to constantly feed the water heater.
Digital control keep flushing error3
boiler not getting up to temperature fast enough. If it is an electric boiler, there is a problem with the heating element. If it is oil o rgas fired, you do not have a flame or the boiler temperature is not reaching 180 degrees F.
Leaks bottom
Usually this is actually from the bulb inserted into the tank, if not the gasket may have issues. Contact a local technician, this may be covered under an Amtrol Warranty.
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