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From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: re: Info on hot water heater gizmo?
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Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 17:34:44 EST
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>From: brian@ut-sally.UUCP (Brian Powell)
>Subject: Info on hot water heater gizmo?
>Message-ID: <775@ut-sally.UUCP>

When I lived in London, I frequently had to deal  with  these  things.  The
British call them geysers (pronounced geezers).  There's a lot of variation
in quality among them and the convenience is dubious.

Because of the design,  the  temperature  of  the  water  varies  with  the
pressure  and  quantity  of water going through the device.  In the smaller
units, just a slight adjustment of the flow makes  the  difference  between
scalding  and  luke-warm.  It  also takes a while to get a lot of hot water
from them.  The larger units can actually generate live steam through  your
sink  faucet.  The  smaller  ones typically aren't routed through a faucet.
They just hang on the wall with an "S" shaped pipe  leading  to  the  sink.
(Not very aesthetic.)

Modern  energy-saving  tank  water  heaters  are  probably  not  much  less
efficient  if you use a lot of hot water (a lot = daily bathing and washing
up of an average family).  They are vastly more convenient in most cases.

I think that, unless you live alone and only bathe weekly (which  tends  to
insure living alone (-: ), you're better off getting a water-heater blanket
and insulating your pipes if you're interested in efficiency.  The  geysers
are a lot more trouble than they're worth.

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