Titan Tankless

[Rowena]

Anyone using this tankless water heater. My husband looked into and it says the ambient ground temperature has to be 70 degrees, that won't work even here most of the year? Anybody out there with experience?

[Nevada]

Originally Posted by Rowena

Anyone using this tankless water heater. My husband looked into and it says the ambient ground temperature has to be 70 degrees, that won't work even here most of the year? Anybody out there with experience?

It's my understanding that tankless water heaters work on a temperature rise basis. In other words, at a certain flow rate it will raise the temperature of the water passing through the heater a certain amount, say by 100 degrees. So at that flow rate, if the inlet water is 70 degrees then it will make the exit water 170 degrees, and if the inlet water is 40 degrees it will make the exit water 110 degrees.

Do you have a link to the information that says the ground temperature needs to be at least 70 degrees? That doesn't sound right.

[painterswife]

My incoming water temp. is about 50. My takgai propane heater has no problem rasing the temp to 150.

The think with ours is that we now have the temp at 104-110 degrees and do not need to ad cold water to cool it down.