Quick Boiler Water Heater Element Replacement on Sailboat with Electrical Ground Fault: Model B3 40L

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The Quick model B3 boiler water heater that sits in the corner of our engine bay produces water from an electric heating element. It is normally robust and reliable but unfortunately is as vulnerable to hard calcified water as any other boiler.

If, like me, you have single pole circuit breakers on your consumer unit, the RCD can still trip EVEN when the circuit breaker is turned off. This is because on this occasion we had a negative to ground fault which in effect is STILL wired to the circuit.

Once we'd established that the fault was indeed the water heater, the obvious culprit was the heating element.

After only two years, the elements had accumulated huge amounts of mineral deposits from the hard water. This had caused the element to develop pin holes in the element causing water to leak out, onto the wires and causing a short circuit.

Replacing a water heater’s electric heating element SHOULD be one of the easier and cheaper maintenance jobs. But this is a sailboat.. and no boat job is either straight forward or cheap!

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