Suburban IW60 Nautilus Tankless Water Heater?

audiodane wrote:
ScottG- can you link the reviews you’ve found? I haven’t found any!

To everyone trying to convince me rather than provide useful information:

- it’s less about 30min showers than it is about two things:
1) tank maintenance
2) the fact that we DONT need hot water that often and see no reason to be continually heating it.

Also, if our family of five does come back from a full day of hiking and all WANT to take back to back showers, we can. Most likely some will go to the bathhouse and some will use the camper.

Given that the girard, sub tank, and sub tankless are all comparable, I’m looking at all three...

FWIW, There are a few people on Facebook that I’ve spoken with who have the sub tankless and have had no complaints about it... but I like to cast a wide net for opinions. :)

Your number one reason?

Tank maintenance, just because a tankless water heater doesn't have a tank doesn't mean there is no maintenance. Tankless systems are prone to mineral buildup in the water tubes, To combat that there is a maintenance procedure that needs to be followed which flushes the mineral buildup out of the tubes.

Water naturally has minerals suspended in it, some sources the mineral content can be considerable. Municipal water systems tend to have lower mineral concentrations, water well sources without a softening system can have extremely high mineral content.

Something else to consider, you may need to make some propane system upgrades, regulator and hoses to the tanks may be undersized and the propane line to the tank may need to be upsized..

Tankless systems also have some limitations in just how much temperature rise you can get, the colder the input water the lower the temp of the output water.. The faster you draw the lower the rise in temperature and the slower you draw the faster the rise..

I will also note, I do not have to do any "maintenance" on my tank water heater, just fill and go, drain out the water at the end of camping season..