Hot water heater question

I agree there is water waste using the water heater, first in waiting till you get warm water, then in fiddling with the temperature. I added an adjustable thermostat that keeps the hot water at just the right temp for our showers. We turn on the water heater once a day, wait half an hour or so, start washing dishes with the cool water in the lines, finish and rinse with hot water. Then take our “navy” showers and shut off the heater. Or you can run water into a pitcher and pour it back into the fresh tank later. Another way to solve the same boondocking problem, either will work.

Originally posted by lostagain    Water heater/hot water heater, who cares?  We all understand you won't have a nice hot shower if it doesn't work.

Not everything can be evaluated on a binary basis.  Sometimes things must be evaluated on a continuum of values between zero and one, or degrees of truth rather than being either off or on.

Perhaps I should have said "for" hot water lines.  I don't know about other travel trailers, but in mine, when I turn on the valve that has the H on it, water goes through the tank where the fire is and comes out nice and warm.  So the water in the hot water system is heated by the hot water system heater, or, for short, the hot water heater.