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	Name:	BigFoot -
	Subject:	Water Pressure Reducing Valve
	Date:	2/19/2006 4:34:50 PM

I'm really dumbfounded now. I had a whole new contraption in my meter box replaced this morning....the shut-off valve, back-flow preventer, and
regulator. With cold water in my water heater tank and no electricity going to it, I keep a constant 65 psi in all my pipes including the reading from the bottom of the water heater (drain spigot). I put in a brand new
lower thermostat today also. I turn on the power to water heater with
pressure gauge attached to drain spigot and both thermostats set at
123 deg. and here's what happens:
++top element heats fine then shuts off o.k. and power then is sent to lower element........lower element stays on very long time until I adjust the
temp down to 90 deg....then it cuts off...meanwhile the pressure in the tank goes from 65 psi all the way up to 145 psi (that is when i bailed out
and ran the lower thermostat down to 90 and the element cut off at that
point)
++I took the pressure gauge off the tank and took it to an outside faucet and it was reading about 142 psi there until I opened a faucet and released pressure...then everything stabilized back to 65 psi...ideas????????