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American Water Heaters & also American Appliance Manufacturing Inc. Water heaters: age decoders, water heater manual sources.

We give contact information for American water heaters, gas, electric models, and American Appliance Manufacturing Inc. water heater, geyser, cylinder, calorifier manufacturers and for water heater installation, operation, & troubleshooting manuals.

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These are two different companies with very similar names.

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American Water Heaters & American Appliance Manufacturers Water Heater Age / Manuals

Here we give contact information and decoding tips for two different water heater companies: American Water Heaters and an older company, American Appliance Manufacturing Inc.

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American & American Standard WATER HEATER CONTACT INFORMATION

American & American Standard WATER HEATER AGE DECODER

Contact Information & Manuals for American Standard Water Heaters

Wiring diagram for electric water heaters Amerian Standard cited & discussed at InspectApedia.com

Illustration: a typical electric water heater wiring diagram from American Water Heaters - cited just below.

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American Water Heater Age Decoder

Amerian Brands Water Heater data tag (C) Daniel FriedmanPhoto: data tag on an American Water Heater, showing serial number 9950123040. This serial number decodes to 1999 week 50.

Check the American-brand water heater serial number, not the model number to find and decode the water age.

A TruFlo water heater was made by American (Tru-Test or Tru Value water heaters) or by U.S. Craftsmaster, then the age is encoded in the serial number as follows:

First two digits of the serial number are the year

Second two digits of the serial number are the week

Example: 9201nnnnn would translate as 1992, first week [i.e. January 1-7 in 1992]

American Appliance Water Heater Age Decoder

or for American Appliance Water Heaters or for American Water Heater Group you may encounter:

Note that this decoding won't work for older American Appliance Mfg. Corp. water heaters such as BN's water heater label shown just below and sporting serial Number A 2363113.

Older American Appliance Mfg. Corp. gas water heater serial number decoder (C) InspectApedia.com BN ... Older American Appliance Mfg. Corp. gas water heater serial number decoder (C) InspectApedia.com BN

Stating the age of the building can set some reasonable-limits on guessing at the manufacture date for older American Appliance water heaters whose serial number doesn't follow the later standard format.

What's the age of the building? That sets a reasonable floor under the question of heater age.

EG: is this a reasonable decoding: A WWYYnnn - week 23 year 63 - or is your building's age post 1963?

EG: or for a much newer age - A nnnWWYY - week 31 year 13? - No, that is not reasonable - from the brand name history as well as the label's appearance, we can be sure that this water heater is older than 2013.

The American Water Heater Company, founded around 1972, was merged into GSW in 2002 and in turn GSW later merged into AO Smith.

American Water Heater Age Decoder

For water heaters made in common by or for American and AO Smith you may encounter:

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American
Water Heater
Age Decoder: Month Table
Letter Month
A January
B February
C March
D April
E May
F June
G July
H August
J September
K October
L November
M December

Notes to the table above

Note that to avoid confusion the letter I is not used.

American brand water heaters may be distributed under any of these brand names

Amerian Brands Water Heater data tag (C) Daniel FriedmanAce Hardware, Ace water heaters, American Hardware water heaters, America's Best, Apex Water Heaters, Aqua TempWater Heaters, Aqua Therm Water Heaters, Aquamatic water heaters,

Best Water Heaters, Best DeluxeWater Heaters, Craftmaster Water Heaters, Champion water heaters, De-Limer Water Heaters, Deluxe Water Heaters, Dyna-Flow Water Heaters [maybe],

Eagle Water Heaters, Earl's Water Heaters, Envirotemp Water Heaters, ENVIROTRON WATER HEATER AGE, Flame-Guard water heaters, Four-Most Water Heaters, GSW water heaters, HI TEST HOYT WATER HEATERS, Hotmaster Water Heaters, Hotstream Water Heaters, John Wood water heaters,

King Water Heaters, King Clean water heaters, King Line water heaters, Lowes water heaters, Master Plumber Water Heaters, Mor-Flo Water heaters, Mor-Flo/American water heaters,

Nationaline Water Heaters, Neptune Water Heaters, Penquin Water Heaters, Polaris water heaters, Premier water heaters, Prestige Water Heaters, PRO-Line Water Heaters, also Proline Plus water heaters,

Quaker Water Heatersr, Quick-Flo Water Heaters, Raywall Water Heaters, Revere Water Heaters, Riviera Water Heaters,

SABH Water heaters, Sands Water Heaters, Sentinal Water Heaters, Servistar Water Heaters, Shamrock Water Heaters, Special-Deluxe water heaters, Standard Brand Water Heaters, Super-Eagle Water Heaters, Super-Flo Water Heaters, Supreme Brand Water Heaters, Sure-Fire Water Heaters,

Thoro-Clean Water Heaters, True-Test Water Heaters, Tru Value Hardware Water Heaters,

U.S. Craftmaster Water Heaters, U.S. Supply Water Heaters, Whirlpool Brand Water Heaters, XCL Energy Water Heaters, WHIRLPOOL WATER HEATERS .

Shown above: An American Water heater data tag indicating the year 98 and week 17 of manufacture.

American Water Heater Manuals

 

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Reader Comments, Questions & Answers About The Article Above

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Question: this water heater can't be from 1923 so how old is it

BN
That's not a 1923 font on the label. ASNI is 1979. What year could this be? - BN 2022/04/05

American Appliance Mfg Co Water Heater (C) InspectApedia.com reader BN

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Moderator reply: more details now at page top for decoding older American Appliance Mfg. Corp. water heater serial numbers

@BN,

Thanks for the photo.

You're spot-on that applying a sanity check such as the ANSI label, and even better, adding the age of the building, set some reasonable-limits on guessing at the manufacture date for older American Appliance water heaters whose serial number doesn't follow the later standard format.

What's the age of the building? That sets a reasonable floor under the question of heater age.

EG: could it be A WWYY - week 23 year 63 - or is your building's age post 1963? = best guess

EG: The answer would be NO, for a guess at much newer age - AnnnWWYY - week 31 year 13? - Not at all likely given that the company was not longer doing business under that name in that year.

We've added and expanded this discussion now at the top of this page.

Question: American Water heater model HEFR22STRL manual

2020/04/29 chris said:

Im looking for a service manual that covers the American 19 gal. electric water heater model #HEFR22STRL serial # 8926200688 its been in use less than 1 month and stopped heating the water. any help would be welcome, thanks

Moderator reply:

Chris,

I've searched for an American Water heater model HEFR22STRL with no success. That model is not even listed at the American Water Heater co's website listing all of their water heater manuals.

Please post a photo of the water heater's data tag as that may help me look further.

The only 19-gallon American water heater the AMERICAN 19-GALLON ELECTRIC WATER HEATER E61-19L-045DV [PDF] we've found has this service manual:

Question: is this American Appliance Mfg. Corp. water heater from 1985?

American Appliance Mfg. Corp water heater Model 66 AMG probably from 1985 (C) InspectApedia.com Ian(Feb 25, 2020) Ian said:

Thoughts about this water heater? Is it from 1985?

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Moderator reply: decoding the water heater age on an American Appliance Mfg. data tag

Ian

That's a reasonable guess.

The serial number of your water heater is given as

A854892

AYYWW1234 where YY is year of manufacture and WW is week of manufacture

So our guess at the date of manufacture and thus the age of your water heater is week 48 in the year 1985.

Question: Dyna-Flow American Appliance Manufaturing Water Heater age

Dyna-Flow water heater, American Appliance Mfg. (C) InspectApedia.com E

I own a house that was built in 1971. I've owned it for over 3 years and the previous owners used it for a summer home for 10 years. I was trying to find the age of my water heater. I was wondering if you could help.

It's an American Appliance Mfg. Corp. Closest I got was the company in Santa Monica, CA is permanently closed. Picture is attached. - Anonymous by private email 2018/03/01

Dyna-Flow water heater, Data tag, serial number, age, American Appliance Mfg. (C) InspectApedia.com E

Reply:

I see a serial number A 1381859 on a Dyna-Flow water heater.

The Dyna-Flow water heater is made by American Appliance Manufacturers, Inc. - I have placed this information here under Amerian Water Heater. Co. pending more information.

A plausible guess is that the age of this water heater is encoded as A WWYY123

If that's correct the heaer was made in the 13th week of 1983. I'm researching the question further.

The original American Appliance Manufacturing Company was founded ca 1952 by Everett S. Todd and Bert Sutton in Santa Monica California in 1952. the company later became Mor-Flo American, or Mor-Flo Water Heaters. Mr. Todd passed away in California in April, 1990.

In 1981 American Appliance Manufacturing Company, in Santa Monica CA, was focused on solar water heaters until 1992 when the company left that city.

The currennt (2018) American Water Heater Company (described above) includes in the company's current product line the DynaClean™ Automatic Sediment-Cleaning System** that may be a coincidental use of the Dyna- phrase or might be a descendant of Dyna-Flow water heaters.

The current (2018) American Appliance Manfuacturing Co., a producer of appliance parts, and given below, is a different company.

 

American Appliance Mfg. Corp. Water Heater Data Tag (C) InspectApedia.com IanOn 2020-02-26 - by (mod) -

Ian

That's a reasonable guess.

AYYWW1234 where YY is year of manufacture and WW is week of manufacture

On 2020-02-25 by Ian

Thoughts about this water heater? Is it from 1985? [Click to enlarge any image]

On 2019-12-09 - by (mod) -

Linda you can contact

American Brand Water Heaters, Warranty and Service Support P.O. Box 1597 Johnson City, TN 37605, USA, Tel: 800-999-9515, Website: http://www.americanwaterheater.com/

but first let's be sure of the brand and model. Can you attach a photo of the data tag on you water heater ? - use the "add image" button

On 2019-12-08 by Linda

I have an American Appliance Water Heater with a serial that reads ER42-10. Where can i find replacement parts?

On 2019-09-30 - by (mod) -

American Appliance Mfg. Corp. Water Heater Data Tag (C) InspectApedia.com Tim RTim

That looks to me like an American Appliance Water Heater data tag, Tim.

Look around on that electric water heater for a brand name and logo - and attach those photos and it'll make it more-likely that we can find the manual.

Meanwhile, for most water heaters the testing and repair of the heating elements themselves is pretty standard - you'll see electric water heater test and repair articles in the ARTICLE INDEX found just above.

On 2019-09-29 by Tim Ratican

I can't find this anywhere. Need to troubleshoot.

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On 2019-07-06 - by (mod) -

Anon

I'd like to see a sharp photo of the data tag.

Above we give the formats for decoding the common American Appliance water heater serial numbers into date of manufacture. Often it's YYWWWnn where that's year and week number

On 2019-07-06 by Anonymous

I have an American Appliance Mfg. water heater, model G53H-6, serial no. A 1929771. Manufactured at Plant A. How old is it. None of the age calculators using the serial number seem to work.

On 2019-06-24 by Doug

I have an old American Appliance electric water heater that has a reset button that trips every few days. The serial number is 01459-10-14-9 and the model number is 30 AMGH. Could you tell me how old it is and who I might get in touch with to perhaps find new controls with a new reset button?
Thank you,
Doug

On 2019-01-09 - by (mod) -

Debbie

Based on the decoding tips in the article above reasonable guess for your water heater would be either week 4 or the month of April 1979.

Does that make sense vs. the age of your building?

On 2019-01-08 by Debbie

I have an old American Appliance Water heater that just gave out yesterday. The Serial number is S047939 and the model number is 27000. Could you tell me how old it is and what would be a comparable replacement? It is a 115 lb capacity tank.
Thank you,
Debbie

On 2018-07-13 by George Pritchett

Can I determine the model number for an American Manufacturing electric water heater from the serial number? C1482072 is the serian number?


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