"Tall" Water Heaters are not taller?

[kevharper]

Lowes has a big selection on Whirlpool water heaters. Some of them are called 'Tall' water heaters and some are just plain old water heaters. However, the only dimensional difference I see between the 'Tall' and 'standard' is in the diameter. What is up with that? The 'Tall' water heaters also seem to have a slightly higher energy factor (about 10% higher). I assume that's because they have more insulation (contributing to the larger diameter).....?

Any anyone shed some light on this for me?

[hallerb]

perhaps the display doesnt accurately reflect the height bin some way?

new heaters are more efficent having better insulation and a slightly larger diameter

[DerbyDad03]

Are you sure they are the same capacity? A 30 gallon tall could be the same height as a 40 gallon standard but would be thinner.

(Don't get pissed... you didn't post model numbers, so we don't know what you were looking at.)

[kevharper]

I should have given more info. here are the two water heaters I was looking at:

Standard:

Tall: Shows they are the same height...weird.

Thanks, Kevin

[<kjpro]

Water heaters used to be commonly referred to as Standard and Short. Today, most manufacture&#39;s refer to them as Tall and Short. That&#39;s why they are the same height.

[<kjpro]

If you look at your links (from your later post)... you&#39;ll see that the Tall version has 2" of insulation and the Standard unit has 1" of insulation. So the dif 22 - 20 is your insulation. This cuts down on the standby loss, which increases your efficiency a little bit.

Here&#39;s the info from my other post as to the height concern.

Quote:

"Water heaters used to be commonly referred to as Standard and Short. Today, most manufacture&#39;s refer to them as Tall and Short. That&#39;s why they are the same height."

[Big_Jake]

Standard:

Surprising that no one else has posted a "real" reply.

Water heaters are either "short" or "tall". Where I am, the "tall" ones are the most common. I have never seen a heater over 40 gallons that is available as a "short", so it is a little puzzling why Lowe&#39;s called the one "tall" in their info, because, to my knowledge, they don&#39;t make a 50 gallon "short".

This is probably why the 1st one you listed doesn&#39;t say short or tall.

Hope this clears things up.

JK

[<kjpro]

Standard:

Tall:

How many 50 or 75 gallon short water heaters would you like?

[Big_Jake]

Yeah you&#39;re right. I should have googled it. Just because all the 50 gallon and up water heaters that I have seen are tall (standard) doesn&#39;t mean that they don&#39;t make &#39;em.

Thanks for not calling me an idiot, although I probably deserved it.

JK

[<kjpro]

7:43 pm, " [e-mail]" wrote:

Standard:

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Tall:

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You&#39;re welcome. :-)