Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ttidcc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!cmcl2!philabs!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe From: hollombe@ttidcc.UUCP (Jerry Hollombe) Newsgroups: net.consumers Subject: re: Info on hot water heater gizmo? Message-ID: <208@ttidcc.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Feb-85 17:34:44 EST Article-I.D.: ttidcc.208 Posted: Fri Feb 1 17:34:44 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Feb-85 08:47:06 EST Organization: TTI, Santa Monica, CA. Lines: 34 >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. -- ============================================================================== The Polymath (Jerry Hollombe) Citicorp TTI If thy CRT offend thee, pluck 3100 Ocean Park Blvd. it out and cast it from thee. Santa Monica, California 90405 (213) 450-9111, ext. 2483 {vortex,philabs}!ttidca!ttidcc!hollombe