Atwood water heater VS Suburban
Our last couple of trailers had Suburban water heaters and my new one has an Atwood. What an unbelievable difference! For starters, even when trying to run the heater out of hot water in the shower ...
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edatlanta wrote:
Doug, I think what this poster meant was that if you turn on a water heater with an empty tank, you will destroy the tank. It has to have water in it or the heat will damage it unless full of water. Apparently the new Atwood heaters have protection from this.
Well, they DO NOT. I want the person who stated it to explain why he thinks this. IF the 120 element is exposed to air and NOT immersed in water, it will burn up and NO RV water heater has ANY such protection to prevent this. THIS is how false ideas get out on the Internet. Doug
