Benze
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I've got a 60G bottom feed electric hot water tank that recently seems to be running out of hot water sooner that I would have liked. It has 2 gravity feedback loops on it that normally work fine. I checked the elements and they are both working properly, so I suspect it is more a question of water usage than anything else. The HW temp is set to be about 130-135F. The reality is that I don't have cold water coming out of the faucets; just warm. So I figure that although it is a 60G tank, I presume that under a constant use, I can't actually get 60G hot water out, but rather only 20-30G before the influx of cold water into the tank brings down the temperature too much.
If my theory is correct, I figure the best I could do would be to raise the water temp before it goes into the tank, to reduce the temperature differential and the drop. So I'm wondering if I were to add a tankless system on the supply to warm to 70-80F, it should help reduce the thermal shock and provide me with more hot water. I live in Montreal, Canada, so the supply in winter is probably somewhere around 35-40F.
Is this a logical solution? Or is this a bad concept - more of a bandaid solution but not fixing the problem itself? Is there a better way to approach the problem?
Thanks!
Eric
If my theory is correct, I figure the best I could do would be to raise the water temp before it goes into the tank, to reduce the temperature differential and the drop. So I'm wondering if I were to add a tankless system on the supply to warm to 70-80F, it should help reduce the thermal shock and provide me with more hot water. I live in Montreal, Canada, so the supply in winter is probably somewhere around 35-40F.
Is this a logical solution? Or is this a bad concept - more of a bandaid solution but not fixing the problem itself? Is there a better way to approach the problem?
Thanks!
Eric