atwood GHC6A-10E water heater

bmwdriver2019 wrote:
this is more common than people know, imagine if you are a full time rver and you decide to stop , for lunch or what ever , you have hot water from the system, it just makes things more convienent and easy , and why it was installed in the first place , personally , i like it as well as many other people
dometic should have given it better thought then simply trashing all of atwoods product line

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but it is not as "common" as you think.

This application ONLY applies to MOTOR HOMES (IE something with a water cooled engine).

There ARE many more travel trailers and 5th wheel trailer built that motor homes and in motor homes most likely less than 1% of those will have this water heater..

As far as some sort of "advantage", there isn't.

The standard off the shelf RV water heater can bring 6 gallons of water up to a scalding 135F within 15-20 minutes.

So, if you WANT hot water at your next lunch or dinner break, simply turn on the water heater to gas, fix and eat your meal and by the time you are done eating you have plenty of hot water to clean the dishes..

With the Attwood water heaters, they have pretty decent insulation, they WILL keep that water very hot for many hrs after you turn them off. So, get it hot at breakfast, turn it off and by noon time the water will still be pretty hot.. Turn on the water heater on gas at your lunch break and within minutes you will have scalding hot water..

You just need to slightly adjust what you do and will still have hot water quickly at any stop.

The manufacturer is not going to bring this feature back no matter how many times you complain about it.. It is a numbers game and obviously if the manufacturer thought that it was cost effective to continue making them, they WOULD. The manufacture has and knows the exact numbers of what they sell, they are not stupid and when the numbers tell them to stop production they are smart to head those numbers.

If you really must have this feature, then simply by a new Dometic/Attwood and as long as it is still aluminum tank, take the tank to a welding and fab shop and have them simply weld an aluminum tube to the tank just like what you have.

OR, as I mentioned before, take your existing cracked tank to a welder/fabrication shop and have them WELD the cracks shut. Aluminum CAN be welded provided you have the correct equipment and a welder who has good experience with welding aluminum..

You are lucky to have aluminum tank, it CAN be welded, Suburbans with the steel tanks cannot be welded since the welding will damage the glass (porcelain) lining on the inside of the tank and will be subject to rust out at the weld site..