 okay today's video we're going to go through the steps of testing a water heater element so what i've got is my little digital standalone meter here if you want to test your element properly you definitely need a meter that's going to do continuity testing and what i've done is set it at 200 ohms of resistance so a new element the ohms of resistance so this one is 13.2 now if you wanted to put it on your tone you can do that to see if it's good or bad and that'll tell you your element's good it doesn't tell you what your resistance is but normally if you get a tone on a water heater element that'll tell you that that element is probably good now what we'll do is we'll grab an element that's burned out and we'll do the same thing and as you see we have no tone but let me switch it over to read what our resistance is across the element and if it's broken it may not give us a reading if it's uh and most of the time a water heater element's not going to give you a reading it's either going to be good or bad so i have zero ohms of resistance and i also have zero tone which tells me that this element is bad so we know that element is bad now i got one more so we'll set that one off to the side grab the other element and do the same thing first thing i'm going to do is check for resistance and see what that number gives me it gives me zero so chances are this element is bad the element that goes inside of the rod is burned off inside of there somewhere we'll switch this over to a tone touch my two leads together i get a tone touch there and i don't have a tone so that tells us that that burnt that element is definitely bad retest it got a tone on the good one so we got two bad water heater elements and i tell you what tell me this do you call it a water heater or a hot water heater let me know in the comments below which one is it is it water heater or is it hot water heater and come on you can participate in this is it a water heater is it a hot water heater let me know in the comments below all right so now we know how to test a water heater element by doing a continuity test first with a tone we'll switch this over to the 200 ohms of resistance and we'll get our 13.5 to 14 ohms that is a good element and that's how you would test it well thanks so much for watching i do appreciate it i hope this is going to help you to identify a good and a bad element on your water heater don't forget to leave me a comment below on which one you think is proper water heater or hot water heater all right so just learned how to test the water heater element and be sure to let me know in the comment section below what is it is it a water heater or is it a hot water heater please leave me a comment let me know what your thoughts are on that and until next time this is dan jiles with let's fix it i'll see you soon