How to tell when water heater is at max?
When using the electric heating element is there a way to tell when its reached max temp and shuts off? (besides trying to listen) I keep meaning the buy an instant meat thermometer. I suppose i could...
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wopachop wrote:
I turn my water pressure down too. Just enough to make it come out.
Does anyone have a rough guess of how much propane is used to heat up the tank? There are times, like this morning, where i forgot to turn my electric element on. Wanted to flip the propane on too to hurry up the process but also hate having to go refill propane.
Not a tremendous amount of propane. Burning propane produces 91,500 BTU per gallon of propane (or 21,591 BTU per pound). Do some division with the BTU rating of the burner in the water heater to get the propane consumption per hour; the burner's BTU rating is technically a BTU per hour rating. If it's 12,000 BTU (which is the rating for the first 6 gallon RV water heater I found data on), twenty minutes of burn time would use about 3 ounces (by weight) of propane, or 1/22 of a gallon.
