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Allow instantaneous water heaters w/ larger tank volumes #1858

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shorowit opened this issue Oct 15, 2024 · 2 comments
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Allow instantaneous water heaters w/ larger tank volumes #1858

shorowit opened this issue Oct 15, 2024 · 2 comments
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shorowit commented Oct 15, 2024

For example, this product is called an instantaneous water heater but it has a 34 gal tank:

Presumably it's considered instantaneous because of the large burner rate.

We previously assumed that instantaneous water heaters have tank volumes <= 2 gal and thus insignificant standby losses. To handle products like this, we should allow tank volume as an input and, if it's greater than 2 gal, model it as a conventional storage water heater.

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We should also allow HeatingCapacity for instantaneous water heaters.

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And we should probably replace "tankless" with "instantaneous" in our code.

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