On Apr 13, 11:52*am, AZ Nomad wrote:
On Sun, 13 Apr 2008 16:05:08 GMT, Wayne Whitney wrote:
On 2008-04-13, AZ Nomad wrote:
And it loses due to startup time and people turning on the tap and
doing something else waiting for the hot water to be generated.
Startup time for hot water is dominated by the piping length between
the heater and the point of use. *The tankless adds at most 2 seconds
to the startup time. *For a 2.5 gpm shower, that's less that 0.1

bull****. *It adds about a full minute.

Really a full minute, not on mine, mine fires in 2 seconds after water
is turned on, probably another 3-5 seconds to fully heat output. I say
you are unqualified to respond to tankless. I dont realy notice a
difference from the changeover, Pipe length from heater to faucet is
the issue. Your Full Minute statement is untrue, the issue is cold
water in the pipes already. Im now at a tank location, about 40
seconds I need to get HW out of 50 ft of pipe. The tankless location
with about 15 ft is maybe 10 seconds 10 or so to push out cold water.