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This is hard to give an exact quantity due to the variable habits of people's hot water use. Some people take a 10 minute shower others 2 minutes. Amount of people using the hot water tank in the family. To make an accurate assessment there would need to be a hour meter installed on the tank over the month's use and to calculate the final answer the wattage size of the elements would be needed.

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How long should you wait before you have hot water since you reset the water heater and reset the breakers?

As you say you had to reset the circuit breakers, the water heater's heating element may have "died" by shorting to Ground or Earth. This could be the reason why its circuit's breakers tripped to cut off the power. Time to buy a new water heater...? <><><> Typically, you should be able to tell a difference as quick as 15 minutes or so, but it may take well over an hour or two for it to reach "operating temperature". Some electric hot water heaters, you can even hear them as they heat, and you typically can the gas ones. Your biggest variables, assuming you're not using hot water as it heats, is the amount of water that is in the heater, as well as the heating power the heater puts out into the water. Electrics are practically 100% efficient, but gas ones are not even close, but they do operate at higher heater temps and can heat the water faster. <><><> It takes about an hour for a fifty gallon electric water heater to heat up.


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