I said BS, send me a new module. If the reset procedure needs to be repeated, I figure it can easily be done in less than 10 minutes. HELP, what step to go. It arrived today within 24 hours. On relighting, I got the dreaded 4 blinks. Hope this information helps! The most I have had to do this is twice before the fault cleared. If they dont match the actual wire colors for whatever insane reason, notice which is which. Found three capacitors (bigger one in the middle and the other two towards one of the corners, each is mainly silver with a black small/minor segment ) and shorted all three, replaced unit and relit the pilot light, but 4 flashes still the problem. While you have the old valve out, be sure to probe inside to see if you have gunk/sediment and/or crystals/salts. My Whirlpool gas water heater is giving me the dreaded four blinks signal. UPDATE: David Boones method worked great for me, exactly as described. After reading through everything in both Cranky and DBs posts a couple more times, finding a 9v battery and making a second jumper wire to try the battery procedure described in DBs post, I went back to the unit, turned the gas supply back on and re-lit the pilot, when BINGO! Let me step in line with all of you. Some designers use whats called a super cap instead of a battery to preserve data for short periods of time. For sales or technical inquiries about our products please select the type of item (s) you are interested in from the pull down category list shown below. Pull the black clips on the red and white wires straight outwards to unplug them. I received the new valve and noticed a few differences. Im always happy to make book sales! Note which color is on which side. 4. Tug gently, away from the board, to unplug the plug. I believe I was getting 7 flashes until turning burner on and in a short time the flashes went to normal 1 flash. I am thinking about replacing it with a propane tankless. I did put a piece of electrical tape near the end of the ground wire given my tendency to reverse things. It is a V pattern. When I relit the heater, it started up just fine and went into the normal 1-flash mode and still is, a day later. Falcon Edge Self-Retracting Lifelines. As a side note, the light on the new valve is white. The two 10 inch jumpers wrapped around the left and right pins was the method that worked for me. I had a similar experience on a WV8840B1059 getting the 4 flashes. So are you saying that you got yours from the MFR? That said, I decided to tackle this replacement as I wasnt going to shell out a couple hundred for someone to come in and do it. Had to have come Tuesday. Free 4 day shipping. I have 4 blinking lights. I dont know if I ever got the red lights flashing. Many, many thanks for the previous posters comments that led to this fairly simple fix. I pulled the cover yesterday , left every thing hooked up. You dont need the battery at all. Piezo Dynamic Series Sirens Data Sheet, Honeywell Home, Resideo Security Americas This tank was flushed six months ago to install the current control valve. ** sorry, I took no pictures; the capacitor is round, about 1/2 diameter, about 1/2 tall, dark color. The Wt8840 Series Is The Water Heater Control For Trade Use to replace WV8840 valves on AO Smith water Heaters. Started looking on line for a replacement and came across this site. I will my light is not blinking the pilot will light but the burner wont come on so i called whirlpool; and they said i had on warranty as we had stated on the warranty that we put it in the bathroom the heater is just now 3 years old,,, so i told her that it was not in the bathroom it was outside and that it had been installed in a shed that got storm damaged so we had to remove the shed and that my husband being 70 had had some medical issues and he had not been able to get the new shed over it but that had put a small cover around it but that wasnt real worried about the warranty i just want to fix it. When I turn the dail on I IMMEDIATELY turn the dial all the way up to the highest setting and back to the lowest repeatedlyI did it 7 times in quick succession. Also, is the setpoint continuously variable as the dial is turned, or are the labeled settings stepped and all there are? And so the very thin wires (at point where wire became tinned or soldered) became brittle and had broken. Then once it started running went to one blink. THIS METHOD WORKS!!! https://www.flickr.com/photos/7428166@N07/13946581980/ Whirlpool did not improve their product going to this control valve thermostat. Bear with me guys, but Ive been whacked in the mellon for over 16 years, and am blessed that I can actually type, and am a little bit mechanically inclineda little. 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. The Deep End is a steampunk intrigue with plenty of reprehensible characters, plots, poisoned stabby things, and a murder mystery where the sleuth has to suspect herself. Its a Reliant water heater, but at Menards. The reason I got a new WH was so there would be no problems! Just make sure you label (or cell phone picture) where the wires go, to be able to return them, and then disconnect all the wires. and see what the thermostat looks like). Then plugged them in and lit pilot. Thanks Randy. This is an excellent solution. I keep flushing the tank through a short piece of hose every week or so and the water out looks pretty clean now so Ill only do it once every six months or so to keep it clean. Bought my Whirlpool at Lowes. Having been working with systems at this level for nearly all my life I will say it looks like the micro-code in the controller goes away and hides when it gets that dreaded 4 code. First, do NOT buy any water heater with this type of controller (you can zoom in on the ad pic. She then told me that she would have to transfer me to someone else to finish up because my unit has the power exhaust flap and that was a different group. With my method you do not need to remove it, but sometimes its hard to visualize what everyone is talking about if you have never seen it before. Again, because Im somewhat inexperienced at this stuff, I found that there is a different teflon tape used for Gas than in plumbing. After about ten minutes the flashes changed back to the normal one flash operation. If you need to look at the back to see how the tabs are arranged, look at the new valve. limit (Temperature Cut-Out [TCO]) function. The WT8840 Water Heater Control is designed for use in Standing Pilot applications using an immersion well for water temperature sensing. Would appreciate any info on fixing the WHITE Light Gas valve. Honeywell WV8840B1109 Gas Water Heater Control Valve. free! Had to pay 30.00 shipping. The reset button only works if the overheating occurred in the heating chamber. I told them I had four flashes and the serial number. I did read here that a service man said to not go above hot setting. w.c.) maximum inlet pressure, Body Pattern: 90 degrees with 1/2 in. Tried taking the cover off, unplugging connectors, pushing the pilot button with the connector plugged in, not plugged in, still got nothing. worked for me. taken care of on my own. In this case relight the pilot and try again. My light is now white instead of red and the electronic board appears slightly different. If that is true then there could be a case where the manufacturer has just been a little too cute in their programming. Do you know if the Rinnai is any better than the Jaccuzi? There is a thermo-breaker in series with the thermopile attached to the plate opposite the sight window that may need to be reset or could be bad just another thought. Ive tried everything trying to reset it , although it seems the flame is on . It saved me $150. They require that a service technician come to check it out out first for a charge of $95.00. The water heater is a Kenmore and I called Sears but they only wanted to send out a service worker for $79 to diagnosis the water heater although I explained numberous times that the water heater is OK It is the controller that failed. If it does not start up on its own after the shutdown, then you may have to reconnect the battery to the right top pin and go through the above procedure again and it will shutdown again. No battery, no removing of circuit board, just a short jumper wire. controller). I tried letting the circuit board sit, unplugged, for an hour and a half but that did not clear the four flash code. Drain a few gallons, a little scale. Thanks! At least it works again and Ill have the replacement ready if it ever fails again. Two days ago, the replacement unit also died. The water heater wouldnt re-light, but I noticed that the indicator was blinking four times in succession. the side you see when it the board is in place. You can get the pilot to light by pressing this button, but unless you address the underlying problem, the chamber will overheat and the breaker will trip again. I have a water heater only 13 months old and it is not working. BTW I wouldnt try to short everything in sight to GND, because the board and components are conformally coated to seal out moisture, so you dont want to damage the coating. I have the same set up as rdarnitall on 31 December 2014 at 7:28 pm and I just wanted to say thanks for that reset procedure, it worked for me. Get a contractor model. My warrantied part is being overnighted. Also remove heat sensor to check possible problem, no issue. It is now running with no problems thank you for saving me 125$ plus shipping. Called Whirlpool, got the run-around everyone else is getting, called a few plumbers who were all in the $150+/hour. Regarding 7 flashes means Gas Control electronic fault With the new unit, since it goes into the water tank itself, do you need to drain all the water from the tank before replacing it? Four flashes only happens if the water overheated different problem. There is no need to completely remove the board from the plastic control valve cover. Opening hot valve of nearby sink, opening air release valve on top of tank, using 4 inlet pipe to use as a wrench lever to remove the Gas Valve assembly were a few minor but helpful things. 2. 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. Now there is no danger of releasing gas. I dont know this for a fact but the low setting should be somewhere around 100F. This changed to normal flashing within a few minutes. First, the Pilot has to be able to stay lit on its own and a fault blinks on the controller to continue. From this thread it is not true that the 4 flash fault is fatal. It will stay on once i jump the top left and right pins but it wont clear the code. -thanks. Mineral buildup on the valves temp tensor cap the metal part that sticks into the tank could cause the high limit situation by delaying the rate at which true water temperature reaches the thermal sensor. Reinstall the cover. Loreleafs procedure (5 January 2016) worked for me remove cover and short 2 pins with a screwdriver. Well it died for good. Mine got here today, wont be changing it. If this becomes a regular issue, I might solder a pigtail to each of the terminals and get a battery holder from Radio Shack with quick disconnect terminals. 2pos honeywell spst usew. Ill let you know in a year! About 5-10 minutes the 7 flashes reverted back to a single flash, maybe got lucky. Preferably one that doesnt use that stupid Honeywell valve. Whirlpool sent me the upgraded replacement. Also, if a capacitor is all that is stopping the board from resetting it can be discharged by placing 1 leg to ground. The thermal switch on the hot water heater was broken. Thanks again. No lights at all this time I couldnt even get it to do any lights when trying to light the pilot light. Generally, if youre covered under warranty, you would get the part from the MFR of the water heater. He gave me the $30 overnight speech but I opted for the $10 and some change shippingGot it 2 days later! It is likely a Super Cap of 1 farad or more used for short term memory retention. Takes one screw driver to unscrew the one screw on the bottom of the controller. I lit the pilot, and the indicator returned to 1 regular blink (the sign of normal function) as the gas flowed to the burner and ignited. Thanks to your solution I will have hot water until the replacement value arrives. Look at where the Valve body pins connect to the circuit board. So far its been working fine. Only 1 day without hot water thanks to you. It will not attempt to clear its own fault after it faults. We shall see how long this lasts. My unit is a Kenmore, bought at OSH New Years day 2012. I had a power outage at my house and coincidentally (?) So far, this one has continued to work for a while I can not tell yet if they have actually fixed them though. Put it all back together and re-sealed the gasket with red (high temperature) RTV gasket sealer. The water heater turns on and hubby and I live happily ever after. I did flush the system and I lowered the thermostat to between a and b. and it has been running fine for 2 days. God Bless you! ( P.S. This worked for me! Hi I have a Honeywell gas valve and the pilot button popped off. As for Kenmore and Sears they would send a replacement part our for $185.00 and 2-5 days delivery or since the part is under warranty I could pay $79.00 and wait for a service appointment, then wait for the replacement part to be shipped for me to install. My tank is fed solar preheated water, and so far, that water has been warm enough that the main propane burner has never fired with the thermostat set to LOW, so I was just curious. The thing is still under warranty for parts, but I have to pay shipping, and wait for it to come, and pay a plumber hundreds of dollars to install the fing thing. Search the page for How to un-fault a controller. 5. Honeywell Wv8840B1158 Manual. The two upper pins of V push out of the cover and have doughnut shaped gaskets to seal gases. You cannot find the old fashion w/heaters that you could lite and forget it. Be gentle; its only plastic. . But they knew nothing about that. ENJOY, BIG BIG thanks to you, it worked i fixed it. Rheem gets my congrats for the great support and fast shipping. Instead of a red flashing light it has a White flashing light. After reading many of the comments rather than short anything on the circuit board I just unplugged the red and white input power and waited about 1 hour. Pulled off the cover with the dial still on pilot position the pilot light died and the light didnt flash. 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. These Honeywell gas controls include a manual gas valve, safety shutoff, single millivoltage automatic operator, and pressure regulator, pilot gas filter and flow adjustment, pressure tapping, and thermocouple connector. The pilot on my waterheater went out over night. I tried this simple solution you provided and it worked awesome. I have not touched mine in any way, just been doing watchful observation until I have (and now do have) new valve in hand. The customer service representative explained to me that I needed a new Gas Valve and that if there was a store around me that had the Gas Valve, I could buy there (Menards, etc.) In fact, not only have they not fixed the problem, some instructions I found online lead me to believe that they deliberately introduced this feature after the original design. Intelligent designers would program a fault reset capability after the water temperature drops to a safe point, like say 170 degrees. Thanks to everyone that posted with this problem. Was sent a new one with a bad (stuck) push button sparker. 5 gas rated pipe sealant. I had to do it again so Ill detail what seems to have worked form me. I had put a piece of wire between the 2 top ones, not sure if it did anything. The seven blink disappeared shortly after that. Genius. Gas & Electric Water Heaters & Tankless Models | A. O. Smith If one uses a slow supply of hot water (like rinsing a lot of dishes), then the heater stays on making VERY hot water until it triggers a non-resetable error. Give me a break. What is top left pin and the top right pin you arereferring to, while holdingcircuit board still inside the controllerassembly and facing towards me which corner are youreferring to, can you please give me some details or a picture thatwould be great. The comfort range is very small. Im an Innkeeper with few local options for help or assistance and will be following some great advice here. When it calls for heat the damper opens and the pilot ignites but the main burner will not activate. I too will never buy another hot water heater with a Honeywell valve! WV8840B1109 Gas Valve for Honeywell Whirlpool Water Heaters - WV8840B1109 WV8840B1042 $42999 FREE delivery Feb 14 - 17 Or fastest delivery Feb 13 - 15 Small Business Honeywell 100262939 Electronic Valve Ng, 2" 21 $19292 FREE delivery Feb 13 - 15 More Buying Choices $184.52 (13 new offers) David Boone-you are a godsend. But- I havent tried it so go with this method. (day job of electrical engineer). My Family thanks you for the tip to reset the Honeywell Gas control valve. I dont know, but I do know you need to get the sediment out of there in any case, so you might as well try it. So, I set out to see if I could do a reset of some sort by scouring the internet. The light started the all is good single blink and the furnace fired up. My old controller has a red blinking LED that I can reset. Although the Frankinvalving wasnt an option/didnt work, it did show me what I was up against, introduced me to others who have had the same problem and what everyones resolution was. I thought you might want to add this info to your do-it-yourself site. any suggestions ? NOW MY WIFE WILL THINK IM SOMEONE IMPORTANT. This time I left the knob in the pilot position for 10 minutes. Should I bootstrap the thing by supplying my own voltage of 750mv and try David Boones most excellent fault reset procedure? It took right off and has been working fine. I bought the rheem propane water heater6 months ago now its giving me problem 2 blinks every 3 secondsTHERMOPILE voltage low. Cold water for 3 days in winter. 4 Blinks will still happen. My heater approximately 3 years old. Called phone number on the tank and they overnighted a new valve. 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. The first time a friend was able to turn the pilot light back on with no problem. One note, since I did not have any clip leads I just used a rubber band to hold two pieces of speaker wire to a AA battery and held the wires on the pins with my index fingers. I didnt mind to pay for the shipping cost, but, what I minded was the device was poorly made. But they knew nothing about that. I have a slight modification to make it even easier!!! 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. One other thing I could mention and that is there is likely more to this story than what is apparent. I closed the cover again and lit the pilot again. Still four flashes. Pre-Owned. Not much of a DIYer am i but after reading about this scam Honeywell has going on about these modules i had to try this and besides how many more cold showers can one man take..My results? I havent opened the valve yet out of curiosity but from what I read here, the Capacitor sounds like a good culprit. Okay. All working fine now. Its funny how a grown man can get so excited in satisfaction from getting this $%&)%^ing thing working againif anyone would have seen me they may have thought I just won the lottery with all the fist pumping and rants of YES! After turning the heater off and shutting off the gas to the unit. Unplug the power cord for 20 seconds Ive had my Rheem 7 months . Rheem, to their credit, is overnight shipping a new sensor to replace the bad one in the new Home Depot Rheem that I installed yesterday. I did follow the advise of flushing the tank. I did the trick with a AA battery and some cheap speaker wire. I dont seem to see a little white reset button. If I dont update this entry, assume it is (for now). Mwa-ha-ha-ha! Replaces Old . They said they couldnt do anything about that. The next two times we dealt with it in in a very non-technical way. This whole thread is very interesting. For sure theyre going to have a lot of unhappy customers. If that is the case, recommend that you do not short the leads as it can cause internal damage. is there a small battery? I will miss 7 -10 years of worry free Gas Valves & Controls. So either the thermostat is faulty, or somehow theres something preventing heat transfer from the heating chamber and the water in the tank. They didnt ask any questions or ask for the old one to be returned. Feeling clean & grateful for hot water! and then it might come back on or not. Product Support. Depending on your levels of finger strength and determination, you might need the screwdriver to depress the tabs. The next steps may void the warranty, and Now DISCLAIMER: Do not try this at home: Is the designer still alive? Dead as a door knob. When I contacted Rheem again, without hesitation they said they were Fed-Exing me a new valve. 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. This is the second time Ive had to replace the valve. So thanks to commenters earlier, before, and above. day installed it i had bad problems to lite, i called Co. they asked if a professional installed it, i told tech ive installed over 15 water heaters & never had this type of trouble, he kind of said that since im not a pro-with licence thats why its not lighting, i told him i didnt like this valve sytem & all 15 water with the old school red dial out lasted the 9 yr some worked till 12 years & why would i ever give $400 to install something i could do & i do know what Im doing just that this system not working at all, i got it 3 years & I got one of the lucky ones, the (2nd one)was built 07/20/2015 i got a call Fri 29th,16 my tenant said water heater stopped working & i had showed him how tom lite it in case im not around & it turns off, he tried many times, depress 1 1/2, 2 min, 3 min & nothing, i got a chance to look into it & i had assumed E-Z fix 5 min ill have it & running, wrong spent hour doing everything instructions had, i asked my tennat at what temp he had it on, he said a lil past the letyter (A) when i installed it i had told him never pass (A) i remember a friend who owns several homes (7) & he told me many nitemare stories of the Honeywell Valve status lite (poop)he was dealing with 7 faulty valves had to pay hotel 3-5 days while they ship parts, even then the water heater co. diagnosed problem wrong, he said a couple times they told him it was the thermopile that was causing pilot lite not to stay on, he waited for part, ordered the Valve although it had warranty but it didnt cover the wasted time, days & hotel for his tenants, but he some how found on his own that setting those types pass the letter (A) the water heater will over heat, thats whats going on with me, i checked everything spark good, pilot lights well but doesnt stay on & the status lite doesnt come on at all, its like its dead, so i called Co. tech guy told me oh thats an E-Z one & no brainner its your thermopile well let me tell my tenants 4 adults 3 teenagers of how E-Z theyll have it for 4 days without hot water you certified (DA=dumb ass)i still didnt feel good about that, i called my friend & my friend said ill bet you a $100 its going to be the thermo pile, call m back & have them send you new Valve & get on YouTube & sites to get help, these sites are extremely helpful, you save money, time, days waiting for part & most likely youll get wrong diagnosed, so Im gearing up & ready to get hot water for my tenants, its a rotten dirty shame that so many people have gotten ripped off by honeywell & no law suits for intentionally selling theyre valves to the water heater makers they too are at fault, at least those of us that can tinker with things are able to FIY i feel for the people who have get a licence person to install, then several months later have the valve burn out, call Co. then pro to install wrong part, wait more days for correct one ? 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