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- From: jgd@dixie.com (John De Armond)
- Subject: Re: No Hot Water!
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 05:34:47 GMT
- Organization: Dixie Communications Public Access. The Mouth of the South.
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- garyp@rmtc.paramax.com (Gary Palangian [RMTC/ISP]) writes:
-
- >|> >In the middle of my shower, the water went from "nice" to "cool." I have
- >|> >a 40 gallon Bradford heater that has a 30.5 gallon/hour recovery rate.
- >|>
- >Hey Now,
-
- > Is 40 gallons to small for a water heater for 3? I thought that
- >the rapid recovery heaters are capable of near complete recovery in
- >10-15 minutes. Is this adequate for most? I would think you could
- >have a family of 4 take successive showers (near successive) without
- >a problem.
-
- He noted that his heater was a 30 gph unit. See above. Not a fast
- recovery unit.
-
- > When I talked to the utility company about it, they said
- >that if a 40 gallon was not sufficient, the desireable solution was
- >to purchase an additional water heater and plumb it in with a switch
- >over valve. The reasoning was that it would not be used too often and
- >that it is much cheaper to keep reserve water at a constant temperture
- >than to recover in a larger tank.
-
- This does not make much sense. Except for the utility :-) Two heaters
- will have more surface area to lose heat from and the second heater
- will almost never be used. You'd get to heat two heaters all the time.
-
- John
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