But would the temperature drop like that even if it was set too low,
shouldn't it be more constant?

"nick hull" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Al Franz" wrote:

Have a 50 gal hot water heater that was not producing much hot water. I
replaced the Dip Tube and still not much improvement. The manufacture
told
me to do a draw test, measure the temperature in 7 consecutive 5 gallon
buckets drawn from hot water.

The results we 105, 111, 106, 101, 99, 96, 93

What could this mean, have not called the manufacture yet but would like
to
get other opinions. Dip Tube installed improperly, would a hot water
heater go bad like this, any information would be helpful, thanks!

Sounds like your thermostat is set too low

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