Background: Hot water heater goes out
Wife: can you re-light the water heater?
Me: I’ll take a look at it
Later after looking at issue and finding it was a bad FV sensor. I’m searching on my phone to try and find the sensor that can get here in a day or two. Or bypass it somehow.
Wife: Is it fixed yet
Me: [Kind of pissed at the question] No. I would have told you.
Her: I only asked a question. What’s wrong?
Me: The FV sensor is out.
Her: How do you know.
Me: it says it on the display and I checked its resistance. It’s the sensor.
Her: what’s the sensor for?
Me: It senses combustible gases and vapors.
Her: Did you check it with a gas monitor?
Me: I can smell that’s there no gas.
Her: So you didn’t check it with a gas monitor?
Me, reaching my limit: No. no I didn’t. I don’t have a 4 gas monitor 1. and 2 I know it’s the sensor. And how TF am I supposed to manifest a fucking 4 gas monitor? Have you ever seen me with a gas monitor? Where would I bump test said monitor to maintain it?
Her: why do you talk to me like that? I’m just asking questions. I live here too. I can ask questions.
Me: But that’s all you do. I’m trying to fix this shit and all you’re doing is second guessing me and distracting me from finding the part to fix this.
Her: Slams door to bedroom.
And thanks to YouTube I was able to temp bypass that shit so she’s now enjoying a hot shower. Crazy.
FYI: the sensor has a resistance between 7 to 25 k Olms. so it was showing 350 k olms. There’s a silicone with carbon dialectic coating on it or something. So I cleaned it off and used a pencil while hooked up to a multimeter to get it back to 9 k Olms. Then put it back in. Reset the fault. Bam! Worked. YouTube is amazing when it isn’t brainwashing my kids.