This company coded its water heaters by style.
Ao smith water heater age by serial number.
Check to see if the installation date is noted on the sticker.
The year of manufacture is noted by the first letter of the serial number and the month is the second letter.
Each manufacturer uses different formats and you need to de code the water heater serial number.
Read below how to determine the age of your unit.
Based on your device s serial number the manufacturing date is easy to determine.
For instance the picture below shows that this rheem water heater was manufactured in december of 1991.
How to determine the age of your water heater.
It is probably time to get it serviced.
Please help me find the american water heater age model eg2 50r 9450 serial number 9919123173 product number 0920588.
On older models you can determine the age of your unit by decoding the water heater serial number.
On 2018 07 13 1 by kc.
If not then write down your serial number as it usually indicates the year and month of manufacture of the water heater.
The first two digits of the serial number are related to the manufacture year of the device the next two digits are related to the manufacture week.
The first two numbers in the serial number which may appear after one or two letters are the year of manufacture of an a o.
So the data plates shown below indicate that the water heaters were manufactured in 1989 and 2004.
Some manufacturers including rheem made it easy by incorporating the month and year built into the first 4 digits of the serial number.
How to determine the date of production manufacture or age of a o.
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Smith will have celebrated 145 years in business and continues to be one of the world s leading manufacturers of commercial and residential water heaters and boilers.
Would that indicate the heater was manufactured in 2000.
Product setup smith product such as your product s model serial number barcode and software version.
Model number serial number type of installation and date of installation.
If you ve got a water heater that is considered by ao smith to be current style 1 locate the first 2 numbers in sequence to identify the year of manufacture.
If you serial number starts with mg then the manufacturing age is 2015 july.
Bradford white s serial numbers are a little less straightforward.
Month b february year 00 2000.
Smith water heater s from the serial number.
How to determine the age of your ao smith water heater.
On 2018 07 07 by mod yes that s how i d interpret it as k dec and 05 the year.
Kc i would decode an ao smith water heater serial number mb00 0070742 as follows.