Water Heater does not heat all 6 gallons
I have a 6 gallon Suburban water heater, on the last trip we ran out of hot water much quicker than usual. When we got home I ran the water heater, made sure it was nice and hot, then measured 3.5 ...
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What's you definition of 'HOT'?
Incoming source water temperature & flow rate will affect the output temperature.
Suburban normal t-stat is preset for 130*F (OPENS) and will not CLOSE until roughly 100*F for reheating.
Recovery rate is ~10 GPH on propane and ~6 GPH on electric with 70*F inlet water temp.
Yes it's a 6 gallon tank......but flowing straight hot water out of it will not give you 6 gallons of hot water (HOT being defined as 120*F)
Not sure how you will accomplish measured test by draining via gravity....pulling the drain plug/anode rod with tank full of hot water will be interesting.
ON EDIT:
Those wondering about RV WH design.
Small curved 'dip' tubes are on cold inlet (pointed down) and hot outlet (pointed up).
One of the difference between Atwood & Suburban is the combustion/exhaust heat tube design.
Suburban combustion chamber is on bottom right side and exhaust is directly above it on right side. Heat tube is basically a straight 'U' Tube.
Atwood combustion chamber is on bottom right side and exhaust is on top left side. Heat tube goes more through 'middle' of water tank. More contact surface/more heat transfer.
Suburban
Atwood
Incoming source water temperature & flow rate will affect the output temperature.
Suburban normal t-stat is preset for 130*F (OPENS) and will not CLOSE until roughly 100*F for reheating.
Recovery rate is ~10 GPH on propane and ~6 GPH on electric with 70*F inlet water temp.
Yes it's a 6 gallon tank......but flowing straight hot water out of it will not give you 6 gallons of hot water (HOT being defined as 120*F)
Not sure how you will accomplish measured test by draining via gravity....pulling the drain plug/anode rod with tank full of hot water will be interesting.
ON EDIT:
Those wondering about RV WH design.
Small curved 'dip' tubes are on cold inlet (pointed down) and hot outlet (pointed up).
One of the difference between Atwood & Suburban is the combustion/exhaust heat tube design.
Suburban combustion chamber is on bottom right side and exhaust is directly above it on right side. Heat tube is basically a straight 'U' Tube.
Atwood combustion chamber is on bottom right side and exhaust is on top left side. Heat tube goes more through 'middle' of water tank. More contact surface/more heat transfer.
Suburban
Atwood
