Propane or Electric water heater
We recently acquired a 2014 fifth wheel. During the walk around, the tech showed us it had switches for gas and electric water heaters. He said the electric heated faster, but over a longer period ...
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Old-Biscuit wrote:
Suburban or Atwood (based on initial startup temps)
Electric has the slowest recovery rate (~6 gal/hr)
Propane has a higher recovery rate (~11.5--13.5 gal/hr depending on burner btu)
Electric/propane together (~18--20 gal/hr)
Atwood uses SAME set of 12V DC t-stats for both electric/propane (since 2004) so they both turn on/off at same time (ON ~110*F OFF ~140*F)
Suburban has separate sets of t-stats..120V AC for electric and 12V DC for propane ----SAME set point (ON ~100*F OFF ~130*F)---might be slight delay between the two due to +/- variances from mfg.
My 6 gal Atwood takes 20 mins from cold water start up to hot water shutdown on propane. I have no idea how long on AC as I am always boon docking.
