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MADem

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12. Not a clue, sorry. Mine was Persian or from somewhere in the region, and VERY basic.
Sun Jul 14, 2013, 10:04 AM
Jul 2013

It was a white box and hung on my kitchen wall. I hooked the propane tank to it, and when I turned on the heater (first by turning the knob to open the propane bottle, then pushing a big clunky button to ignite the flame) it would fire up the pilot (you could leave the pilot going, but it wasted fuel and we had to lug those propane tanks home). The flame would ignite when water ran through the system. The water went through a "series of tubes" that were made of metal, and hairpin-looped back and forth above the flame. The metal heated the water, nice and hot, too!

I do think, if you live in an area where it gets cold and your groundwater is very cool, that you want gas or propane to heat your water as the electric powered heaters or even a solar system might not get the water warm enough year round.

I have heard (anecdotally) good things about Rheem, but that's not first-hand.

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