This tripping protects you from getting scalded or burned when using hot water in your home.
Immersion heater thermostat reset button.
If so push that reset button as well.
Simply press the switch usually red in color to reset it.
There may also be a lower thermostat reset button on the water heater.
Immersion fitted in november and worked fine until a week or so ago at which point i found no hot water and the button up.
You reset the electric water heater reset button by pushing that red button.
It gets tripped when the water temperature is in excess of that limit.
Step 1 reset the button.
Your water heater reset button is a safety device that shuts off power to your water heater when the water temperature inside it exceeds 180 degrees fahrenheit.
To reset it you ll need to press the red reset button on the eco which is usually attached to the upper thermostat.
This is called the high limit thermostat that makes sure the water does not get too hot.
I imagine all this can be is a separate thermostat from the adjustable one with a single upper.
The most likely cause is a bad thermostat.
The reset button is also sometimes referred to as the eco emergency cut off switch or high limit safety thermostat switch.
Ok but then what s causing the water in your water heater to get so hot.
If the button is lit up it means the switch tripped and needs to be reset.
I reset it to get a bath but a couple of days later it was up again and so on until now.