solar water heater

Hi BFL13,

I find that the ten gallon tank is still warm enough to have two brief showers in the morning.

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BFL13 wrote:
There has to be something else to do with "extra solar" than heat water you can't use before it gets cold again.

People have different lifestyle routines so who knows? but we only use hot water first thing in the morning. No time that day to heat it up with solar, and no way to keep it hot from the day before.

The only way to use solar hot water would be in the evening. That would turn our lives upside down. Not worth it, but YMMV. Right now at our seasonal site, we need a 30 pounder of propane about every three weeks at $29 a bottle. That covers furnace, hot water, stove, outside BBQ.

We fire up the 10 US gal water heater in the morning, it runs for about 40 min or so and then we turn it off. That's it. Water is still warm at lunchtime after morning shower, shave, shampoo, wash dishes. (all dishes get washed in the morning after breakfast, not after every meal---had to get DW sorted out on that one :) )