vic46
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Turn up the t-stat.
Navy shower as previously stated. This conserves hot water and space in the gray tank!
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javaseuf
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outdoorsman2007 wrote:There is a pressure valve on the hot water tank outside. Let the pressure in the tank out. Please be careful if the tank is on. Very hot water will come out. You don't need to hold it open for long, just until water comes out.
 and this does what to gain more hot water? Just curious.
Also, if you have a DSI (electronic spark ignition), the thermostat will NOT be adjustable.
Also check your outside shower, if so equipped, to be sure the valves aren't in the "on" position with the shower head turned off. This scenario will mix your hot and cold water together and will only give you warm water from the water heater.
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javaseuf
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Polishnurse wrote:I don't know how the other rigs work, but say in my rig, I can't run the electric side and the gas side of the hot water heater together, it shuts off and get a red flashing light at the switches. So I go with either electric or gas. But I get a lot more the two minuets in the shower. I have yet to run out of hot water and only have a six gallon tank. I do take short showers and my wife will be taking before or after and neither has ever had a problem.
As mentioned above check the air space in the tank, don't think that will help much because you draw from near the top of the tank anyway.
You might want to check and make sure you drawing for the outlet side of the tan and the inlet is the inlet. If there reversed you will be drawing water from near the bottom of the tank which would the coldest spot and the water wouldn't have had time to heat up.
JMHO Bill
Bill, if you can't run both gas and electric together at the same time, something is wrong. The heater control doesn't care where the heat comes from. it only cares when that water temperature reaches it's limit or when it gets too cold.
Very possible that you have some wires from those switches connected incorrectly.
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bcckphillips
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I went to the dealer today they said I suhould get way longer then 2 minutes and with the gas on it shouldkeep up. he did tell me about a check valve on the inlet supply line going in the back of the heater. Has anyone heard of this.
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Dustytuu
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Quote:You probably just need to learn to take a military type shower where you spend about 15 seconds wetting everything down, turn off the water while you soap up then spend about a minute washing off the soap. It'll get you clean but recreational showers just aren't an option in an RV. Good luck / Skip
I disagree. We have always took a shower without turning hot water off and on in the shower. Even when we had 5th wheels with smaller water heaters than what we have now.
Our hot water heater is larger now but when we had a Wildcat trailer we took our showers without turning water off and on.
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outdoorsman2007
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javaseuf wrote:outdoorsman2007 wrote:There is a pressure valve on the hot water tank outside. Let the pressure in the tank out. Please be careful if the tank is on. Very hot water will come out. You don't need to hold it open for long, just until water comes out.
and this does what to gain more hot water? Just curious.
It will relieve pressure and air from the hot water tank.
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javaseuf
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outdoorsman2007 wrote:javaseuf wrote:outdoorsman2007 wrote:There is a pressure valve on the hot water tank outside. Let the pressure in the tank out. Please be careful if the tank is on. Very hot water will come out. You don't need to hold it open for long, just until water comes out.
and this does what to gain more hot water? Just curious.
It will relieve pressure and air from the hot water tank.
So does opening a hot water faucet. I also thought that the water heater manufacturers require this air-gap so the pressure control valve doesn't weep when the water is heating.
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javaseuf
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bcckphillips wrote:I went to the dealer today they said I suhould get way longer then 2 minutes and with the gas on it shouldkeep up. he did tell me about a check valve on the inlet supply line going in the back of the heater. Has anyone heard of this.
Check valves will not affect how much hot water is delivered. They will keep water from flowing but if your heater has a check-valve on the inlet side, and many do not, if it was bad, it would be closed and you would not get any water into the tank.
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bcckphillips
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I looked on the Suburban water heater web site and they do say you can use elec. and gas at the same time for a faster recovery rate. Still does not help me just thought some of you would like to know.
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2-MTnesters
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Do you have an outside shower? sometimes if the faucet on the outside shower is turned on but the shower head is off then the the hot and cold water will run together and cool the entire system. Just a thought. Good luck and happy camping.
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