Troubleshooting guide
Girard GSWH-2 no hot water or lockout
Use this when a Girard GSWH-2 does not heat, shuts down, locks out, or displays a control-panel fault.
Use this atlas to identify likely meaning and prepare for service. Shut off power, LP gas, fuel, or water when a listed appliance condition involves flame, gas smell, exhaust, generator shutdown, high temperature, moving jacks/slides, refrigerant, 120 VAC, control boards, repeated ignition failure, or a persistent lockout. Call the appliance maker, RV dealer, or a qualified RV technician for repair.
Owner-safe checklist
- Confirm the user control panel, exterior on/off control, water supply, LP, and 12V power are on from normal RV controls.
- Turn the hot-water faucet off and back on once only if the manual describes that reset for the displayed condition.
- Stop repeated restart attempts if the heater locks out, overheats, smells like gas, leaks, or shows the same code again.
- Record the code, set temperature, displayed temperature, water-flow state, and conditions for Lippert/Girard or qualified service.
Code tables for these appliances
Related fault codes
- Lippert water heater code E1: Ignition failure or accidental flame off during ignition
- Lippert water heater code E2: Flame sensing interrupted during normal operation and the buzzer will sound
- Lippert water heater code E5: Blower motor failure because no motor signal was detected before ignition or during operation
- Lippert water heater code E7: Linear valve failure detected in the control circuit before ignition or during operation
- Lippert water heater code E8: Air pressure switch not detected before ignition or cut off during normal operation
- Lippert water heater code E9: Flame sensor error because flame is sensed before ignition and the buzzer will sound
- Lippert water heater code En: System timer because the water heater ran longer than 20 minutes