Water heater thermostats are a joke. I've noticed this my entire life, which is getting to be quite long... At first, I thought there was something that needed to be fixed.
Brand new water heaters, old water heaters, fixed water heaters. Usually gas, but I think I recall a couple of electric ones doing that, too. I always put them on 120, and sometimes the water is almost scalding, other times barely warm, depending on whether it's fresh off a burn. When I run the hot water out, and it fires up to re-heat, after that, the water is really hot for awhile. If it's been sitting, nobody using hot water for awhile, then it's more likely to be cool.
Seems to me the manufacturers just don't put a real thermostat in them, and nobody cares enough to force them to.
Joy
--- In DoIt_Yourself@yahoogroups.com, "The Shadow" <bobtail26us@...> wrote:
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> my hot water is super hot one time ,warm the next time .
> some times it my stay hot or it may stay warm for a few days or might change with each use. never know.
> I replaced the bottom element a while back but not the top,it was still working.
> Thanks for any help
> JP
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