Adding an accumulator tank
I'm going to put in a 2 gallon residential accumulator tank. Went looking for the parts to hook it up. Couldn't find what I was looking for so I asked the Lowes guy. He told me that RVs usually hav...
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Lynnmor wrote:BFL13 wrote:
There ought to be a way to use the hot water tank as the accumulator, but it would need some creative arrangements.
But it already does if the air pocket is maintained at the top.
The air pocket (at least on my RV water heater) is pretty small, and doesn't provide for a whole lot of accumulation. If, however, you use the entire tank for an accumulator--which of course precludes having hot water--it can indeed be quite effective and of a sizable capacity. I found that out, and in the process made myself rather befuddled before I figured it out, by wrongly resetting my bypass valves a year or so ago.
