This worked well. I think this Honeywell valve is pretty flakey. Too good buddy, the solution you proposed works like charm, all working now ! If I had just changed out the circuit boards on the old control valve Id not have gained the better sensor. I didnt use a battery and just jumped upper left and upper right pegs. * honeywell gas valve water, Slide ribbon wires clip housing, front gas valve free. ~ diy-home-projects.vwx.info, Home Projects: How Do I Remove This Exterior Water Valve Cap?. Be gentle; its only plastic. This one honeywell water heater thermostat is completely a lemon.. OK just replace with newer updated green computer board without the sensor.. New ones dont have Sensor clip or wire. I pulled the cover yesterday , left every thing hooked up. That visit its no guarantee that they will give you a new valve. This is actually minerals and should be drained. honeywell wv8840b1109 manual honeywell wv8840b1109 manual Pmi reliance supply electric power partcrib please. THANK YOU! NOTE: Only do this if youre sure that the problem that caused the overheating has been corrected. thank u CT. U and DB are $$ saversfor now anyway..LOL! I really dont need those (collective) idiots telling me what is safe and what is not. Resetting the #$%@!! Thank you David Boone for your excellent instructions in your, How to un-fault a controller post. I hope it helps someone. It is a V pattern. Back in business again. 2pos honeywell spst usew. I installed the new valve and cleaned up the mess. I called toll-free number on side of tank (877-817-6750), described my issue and gave a serial number. This procedure worked like a charm. I havent opened the valve yet out of curiosity but from what I read here, the Capacitor sounds like a good culprit. 4 Blinks will still happen. This would upset me less if I had hot water meanwhile! About to enter the fray and attempt the 4-blink DIY fix solution. How to un-fault a controller Awesome! Some points to consider: 1. Neither worked, the second board is now dead. Wait a minute to be sure, then turn the knob to off, and disconnect (the RED and WHITE power leads first) everything and reassemble the controller normally and start it back up. The cover is still attached to the back of the unit by a colorful ribbon of wires, with a plug at the end that connects to the circuit board. Yes. The government mandates all this crap that fails! DO NOT RECOMMEND WHIRLPOOL HOT WATER HEATERS WITH HONEYWELL GAS CONTROL VALVES! Got a 7 blink code which cleared to a 1 blink normal code after a few minutes. Miller Air Core Oil and Gas Harness. When I put it back in it blinked 7 times. Tonight I came home to the 4 blink code again No problem Ill just reset it one more time to get us through showers tonight and replace it tomorrow. in about 3 years. My hat is off to you David, I followed you instruction and it clear the fault and is now heating my water. My question is.do I flush out the tank 1st before I do anything else.I have no idea on make and modelits raining here and I cant check on it since its on the outside of my homeI want to see if I can fix it myself before I need to pay or just all out replace it I had issues let the unit sit and drain. Next day shipping for 10 bucks? Their knowledge and expertise has a value. Forgot to add one more important bit of informationI do not have any error codes, the red light blinks for standby mode and shows a heartbeat while the pilot light is on and continues despite the burner failing to ignite. The entire process from start to finish, including 2 stops to Lowes (once for tools, second for piping) and draining/refilling tank took over 2 hours. David Boone I Love You. I have 4 blinking lights. If youre ever in Fort Wayne Indiana, Ill treat you to a steak dinner/sushi/(or your preference)! Abner, I will handle your questions in my own order. I was successful in clearing the fault code from my Honeywell WV8840B1109 Supply Valve Controller simply by utilizing the single jumper wire method as described in the post from CrankyTenants. It is also an adjustable regulator that insures proper gas pressure for combustion. I closed the cover again and lit the pilot again. With products ranging from thermostats to air purifiers, alarms and awareness to water management systems, even energy management opportunities, Resideo goes beyond installation to integration of holistic, whole-home solutions. Both times there was VERY LITTLE sludge in the bottom of the water heater. While I didnt have any leaks, I was sweating bullets during the testing and first fire up of the furnace. Ignite pilot then rotate to hot. I completely drained the tank and had a little sediment, not much since I have a whole house filter on the incoming supply. Will most likely do the control board swap. If you need to look at the back to see how the tabs are arranged, look at the new valve. (I realize this is way after the fact but just adding some personal experience) Falcon Edge Self-Retracting Lifelines. Whirlpool sent me the upgraded replacement. One small jumper wire is all thats needed! Rheems quality control gets low marks for the initial failure. Wednesday morning earlylooked on porch for another package I was expecting and found the new control valve. If they dont match the actual wire colors for whatever insane reason, notice which is which. I really did not want to mess with wires inside so extremely glad this works for this controller. Tried disconnecting the old board for an hour. Now, I urge CAUTION when performing this fix as, without a working pilot, you could accumulate an appreciable amount of gas and risk an explosion. Wish Id read deeper in the thread to try jumping the valve with wire. I reset it and it worked again for a few days. Im keeping your method in my hip pocket, though, because it is much simpler. Was sent a new one with a bad (stuck) push button sparker. I tried letting the circuit board sit, unplugged, for an hour and a half but that did not clear the four flash code. Thank you for your terrific post. Plug the cord back in I am deeply in the debt of David Boone and would offer to buy you lunch should we ever meet. i am walking thru all theses stepsworking on the circuit board nowdrained refilled and this is last effort before callingcircuit board battery?? Thanks to the website and posters for saving me a lot of trouble. Looks like you guys have saved a lot of people a lot of $$! It is powered from a thermopile heated by the standing pilot flame. Mwa-ha-ha-ha! . Slide the ribbon of wires out of the clip on the housing, and the front of the gas valve is free. What powers the light? Remove cover, put wraps on the two posts and replace cover. A few days ago I noticed that the combustion was very loud, like the flame was pulsating or something (I didnt know I had a pulsejet at home). Since the new board (white light) worked, I slapped it on there and fired it up so we could have water for showers for work, etc. It lights easily, but wont stay lit. Four flashes only happens if the water overheated different problem. But, I didnt know that the new board (white light) had been fixed so it seemingly cant be reset So I think I just screwed myself trying to cut corners and buy a few extra days. Apparently the probe was too sensitive to heat caused by sediment build up. I have the 50 gallon model of the Whirlpool water heater from Lowes that has the Honeywell controller on a Bradford White valve. When utilities came to check gas pressure, my gas was shut off and meter opened for half hour or so. ~ diy-home-tips.vwx.info, Home Projects: Is It A Problem That I Have Two Of Each Color Wires On My Honeywell Thermostat?. Thanks to all of you!! Cal. I am now one of the afflicted and would not like to have to go through this every 18 months. Super easy. I got right on the phone to service again and the first person said they would send out another Gas Control Valve, this time no charge for the shipping. I have a white LED and my code of 4 flashing lights wont reset. Just install the board with the cover removed as outlined. Put it all back together and re-sealed the gasket with red (high temperature) RTV gasket sealer. Although the majority on this thread are dealing with Whirlpool heaters and the infamous 4 flashes of death, my heater is a brand new Rheem, installed just a couple weeks ago. No, Im not participating. The two wires (red/white) pluged to the honeywell box front rightside, power the box, make sure the wires are not loose, refer to diagram, mine were loose had to reattach with tiny plyers. Resideo WT8840B1500 - WT8840 Water Heater Gas Valve Control, NG - 2" Spud, 5" W.C.- WATER HEATER GAS VALVE, STANDING PILOT WITH PIEZO, SETPOINT 55-155F, SPUD LENGTH = 2", BRACKET= CENTERED, REGULATOR SETTING= 5" W.C., GAS TYPE=NATURAL GAS <br><br> The WT8840 series is the Water Heater Control for trade use to replace WV8840 valves used in AO Smith and Bradford White Water Heaters. I suspect it to be calcium and salts. I cleaned burner and vents as well. My 83 year old dads water heater went out. For two years I would drain out 5 gallons of water every two months to remove sediment. Mine is 3 1/2 years old. free! Im assuming that the old board just completely died. Going to researching flushing and cleaning the tank for good maintenance. I left the piezo starter installed in the plastic cover. I checked the voltage from the thermopile: 750 millivolts with pilot light lit while holding in the button. My Family thanks you for the tip to reset the Honeywell Gas control valve. for labor. The two upper pins of V push out of the cover and have doughnut shaped gaskets to seal gases. This is how you can un-fault the Controller or make it check for a fault again (and clear the fault). So I would recommend to you ( with Valve off the water heater and no gas applied, to test the pilot valve (left pin to (+))with the AA battery, and test the main valve (Right pin to (-)), and each individually should click. Can you let me know if your WH is still working? Rebooted the pilot and set to just below HOT. When it calls for heat the damper opens and the pilot ignites but the main burner will not activate. I have a state water heater (which are made by A.O. WV4262E1107 it has a much larger board and connects a bit different. So, I set out to see if I could do a reset of some sort by scouring the internet. And everybody wonders why plumbers charge what they do. I had worked on a water heater that was in a flooded basement and had to open up the sealed combustion chamber, remove the burner/pilot/ignitor/thermopile assembly and dry out the ignitor with a hair dryer for about 15 minutes before it was capable of showing a spark again. Nothing on the shelf that looked like the Honeywell. light the pilot and you still get the 7 flashes; however the water heater kicks back on and gets back up to temperature and shuts off as normal and you will see that your light now only flashes 1 time every 3 or 4 seconds. Rheem next day shipped me a new Honeywell control valve. Thank you sooomuch and my daughter thanks you, hot water is a must for her. Instead of a red flashing light it has a White flashing light. This time they are sending me a new gas valve for free overnight. Thanks again to all. I had the four blink Water too hot issue. Does anybody know of an other brand that could replace this crap of a unit? The Whirlpool helpline says I have to replace the gas valve. So is there now way to reset the white light model? (With the three wire plug OFF and the pilot on I was getting a 7 code only.) I had looked at it at 5am it was 7pm by the time I got to Lowes, thought he was wrong but trusted his input! > Why doesnt Lowes carry repair parts for the water heaters they sell? He removed the cover but did not remove any wires (he fixed it very quickly). I did however, use the no battery option submitted by Cranky Tenants which is a little easier. If they do fail, at least now, thanks to all your advice, Ill at least have a workaround to use while I fight with them for another replacement. This WORKS! Manual 34-00013EF-06. i was still under warranty so the valve was free less $30 overnight shipping. I turned the knob to the on position and the burner kicked on. Take the front cover off. Apparently that is the keykeep it clean!!! I followed your instructions to clear the fault and they worked fine. Went back to buy a new thermostat. It arrived today within 24 hours. What a pile of JUNK!!! they refused to sell me a new control///, i will not buy awhirlpool; any thing again////////////. My control has an additional wire plugged into the bottom of the controller (Im not certain what it does). The GE people walked me through a reset process over the phone and it fired right up. Thanks to all the posts here!!! I touched the two top ones. Went from four blinks to seven. 2. Thanks in advance. I may have gotten lucky too. This should at least get you hot water and time to get another controller from like Amazon. Thanks for the information and comments it help me restart my waterheated. i called whirlpool(1877-817-6750), they are sending me the valve free of charge, but its gonna take a couple days to get here. I was wondering if anyone knew if this part is replaceable? They have a manual shut off. Sediment in the bottom of a tank reduces efficient heat transfer from the heat source (gas or electric) to the water by putting a layer of less conductive minerals between the two. After spending 51 minutes with Sears customer non-service the problem was resolved within 20 minutes following Davids instructions. This is an excellent solution. you will get a 7 flash error. Since waaaay too many folks have experienced this failure, and since it seems to be electronics related, and since Honeywell is sending out replacements willy nilly and asking for return of the defective valves, I suggest that the true culprit may be that some bonehead just programmed the software at too low a critical temperature. Maybe a result of their desire to protect themselves against scald claims and the programmers misunderstanding of high hot might have to be to deliver hot at a faucet that is 75 feet from the tank and serviced by uninsulated lines? Do this at your own risk, your mileage may vary. worked for me. So Im thinking that a dirty or intermittent pot could momentarily go open and the controller could see that as a fatal error which could not usually be recovered from. 1. Cold water for 3 days in winter. Turn the temp knob down to VAC (lowest setting for vacation) If no updates this worked for me. This isnt connected to house current, so dont worry about touching any wires; you wont get a shock. Water Heater Gas Control Valve For Honeywell Whirlpool WV8840B1109 WV8840B1042. great write up, but I cant find this part anywhere. I bought the rheem propane water heater6 months ago now its giving me problem 2 blinks every 3 secondsTHERMOPILE voltage low. Any suggestions? When the pilot wont light and there are no flashes, the problem is generally that the heating chamber got too hot and tripped the safety interlock. Fixed? I have the same set up as rdarnitall on 31 December 2014 at 7:28 pm and I just wanted to say thanks for that reset procedure, it worked for me. But get this They now want owners to drain and flush their tanks every 6 months so calcium will not build up on the sensors! Thank goodness I found this site. oops I pressed the wrong key: not 170, but 70 degrees. I just found this article. Also, the white light version has NO COM connector. So far, so good but was looking up things that could go wrong and found this page. I called Whirlpool customer service, got the replacement valve for $30 cost of the shipment. After I reconnected got 7 flashes instead of 4 flashes and the gas valve opened properly. US Government safety features. Days Later after reading further I turned the main gas off, and removed the gas valve and the Torx security screws ( that have a pin to prevent regular Torx from entering the screw head). I have 2 bad Gas valves that i tried this on. This suggests that the burner was on for a long time but just couldnt heat the water enough to satisfy the thermostat. I then turned the gas valve to hot and it lit and ran. Thanks forcreating this site! UPDATE: David Boones method worked great for me, exactly as described. Before I go on I want to point out that patience is a requirement in this repair, as it may take more than a couple of tries with these methods before results occur. Taking your screwdriver and hold it against the upper right pin and the lower pin for about 3 seconds. . Still no flashes.) Expect difficulties. Thats the problem, not Honeywell they just build a piece of crap (in China). Its not the likely culprit, but possible. I saw that the light went out and the pilot had gone out. A day or so after install, I did raise the temp just a tad to 130. Its not more than 3yrs old. I guess Water heaters are now interactive devices requiring yearly maintenance. I put a speaker wire on the positive then putthe board and on the water heater. Thanks for at least giving me some temporary hope (how to reset the white button) on my stubborn heater and for making me smile while you did it. I dont think it is cost effective. Then This year the pilot went out and I tried to re-light by pressing the red knob pointed at PILOT and pressing the square igniter button. But they knew nothing about that. David Boone-you are a godsend. The most I have had to do this is twice before the fault cleared. Is it flashing at you? Kenmore water heater purchased at OSH in 2012. Anyhow, the next day I got the part. CORRECTING LAST SENTENCE: main valve (Right pin to (+), So I would recommend to you ( with Valve off the water heater and no gas applied, to test the pilot valve (left pin to (+))with the AA battery, and test the main valve (Right pin to (+)), and each individually should click, photo of pilot valve solenoid Could someone make a diagram or snap a pic and circle what posts to jumper? So while they said just use the sealant through out, I actually used a combination of both. Thank you Pioneers, Thank you Tyler. ** sorry, I took no pictures; the capacitor is round, about 1/2 diameter, about 1/2 tall, dark color. I nervously turned the controller dial to the 9 oclock position, the burner burst to life, and today I have hot water again. I have a newer version. * Honeywell Gas Valve on a Water [], [] How turn water main cutoff valve , In event main water valve fails, final backstop operate shut water house: main water valve street.. 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