Electric Water Heater

Hi - bought a Bosch ES80 Tronic 6000T Water Heater from Tien21 to replace the old one - so all connections were there - take one off wall put new one on wall.
When the plumber installed it he showed me that the new one had an “expansion” tube and basically said: “this is very important and if the boiler is overheating it will discharge into the sink as opposed to blowing up!” - well I think that’s what he said as he only spoke Spanish.

So a few days later we noticed it was discharging - about a cupful of water a day - so we got him back - he tested the water pressure (which was 4 bar) and replaced the pressure release valve (to see if it was faulty - which it wasn’t so he put the Bosch one back on).

We are now waiting for a Bosch technician - the plumber says - “they will do their best to charge you but in my opinion - the water pressure is ok so the thermostat is faulty”.

He told me initially to set ithe thermostat control knob to 20 past (on the clock) between minimum and maximum - which we did and periodically the red light goes on and off as we are using it - so as novices - we assume it is working ok.

My wife and I actually commented on how hot it was when having a shower but just thought it was very efficient and probably the old one was “calced up”.
As it works ok - we are still using it but I have touched it back to 10 past and it is hardly discharging anything now.

Could it be as simple as we had it turned too high at 20 past ???

This should not happen with a new boiler, I am having a slight problem with mine but its not new it does get to hot and need to put the tap down then gets to cold lol, I think you need them out again. Lucky I got a friend next door who was a heating engineer he sorts
it out for me. hope you sort it out Pete.

You can download the Instructions for this Boiler if you havnt got them. It probably is that the Temperture Control was set too high but nothing lost if it's looked at by a Technician. Our Boiler showed how hot the water was getting so we knew when it was time to change the Thermostat. Good thing as we were novices after always having Gas Central Heating.

Have replied to your PM Ian.

Many thanks indeed.

Yes its to hot water expands when its hot so the hotter the more expansion you get seems to me that when you have an 80 litre tank or above its more likely to happen get a thermometer and check temps of water you have,if its to hot turn it. down

Thanks for reply and you are right - we have turned it down - its still more than hot enough to use - but I have e-mailed Bosch's technical department yesterday to try and find out if it is OK for 50/60ml of water to discharge from this tube daily BECAUSE in the manual it states "water may discharge from this valve when heating" but everyone tells me it SHOULDN'T - so not being technical myself I need to know who is right?