Hybrid Water Heaters

Save Money • Save Energy • Quicker Installation

A Hybrid Water Heater represents the latest in cutting-edge technology. It combines the best attributes of conventional and tankless technologies to provide the best of both worlds. Most Hybrid Water Heaters are also ENERGY STAR® rated and may qualify for Federal tax credits. Additional state and local incentives or rebates may also be available – visit www.dsireusa.org to find out what your state offers.

Hybrid Water Heaters come in both electric and gas solutions – whichever best suits your need.

Arrow Plumbing installs and services most major Hybrid Water Heater manufactures, including but not limited to:

• Eternal Hybrid Water Heater
• Stiebel Eltron Heat Pump Water Heater
• AO Smith Hybrid Water Heater
• American Hybrid Water Heater
• State Premier Hybrid Water Heater
• Rheem Hybrid Water Heater
• GE Hybrid Water Heater

The Old Way

Tank

In a tank, heat is generated from the bottom of the tank and rises through the centrally mounted exhaust. Cold water enters from the top and deposits sediments at the bottom.

Over time, the efficiency of heat transfer is reduced as the burner has to work through the build-up before heating the water. As heat passes through a large body of water just once, the tank is limited in its ability to produce continuous hot water.

 

Tankless

In a tankless, heat is also generated in a bottom up fashion. Cold water passes through a series of coils that reduce water pressure in order to heat water quickly. However, the coils clog up over time with scale build-up that reduces efficiency, and eventually causes the heat exchanger to fail.

Because tankless is activated by flow alone, every time a faucet is opened and closed, the heating cycle must start over again. This on/off behavior causes “cold water sandwich” that impacts temperature consistency as well as delay hot water delivery to your applications.

The Hybrid Way – Gas

(based on Eternal Hybrid™ and Eternal Condensing Hybrid™ other brands and models vary on how they function)

In Eternal’s Counter Flow design, cold water enters from the bottom up as a way of self cleaning the sedimentation, while heat is pushed through 44 radiating transfer pipes.

The Eternal Condensing Hybrid’s innovative 3 cycle process pushes heat in 3 directions through the water and maximizes energy transfer. In simplest terms, our patent slows the exhaust of heat by reusing the energy multiple times, rather than reducing water pressure.
The end result is a small heat exchanger that is capable of replacing multiple tanks, while supplying endless hot water with consistent water pressure and doing it efficiently time after time.

The Hybrid Way – Electric

(based on Stiebel Eltron’s Hybrid, other brands and models vary on how they function)

Hybrid Electric Water Heaters feature heat pump technology that makes it over TWICE as efficient as standard electric water heaters. That means if your annual energy cost for hot water is around $520, you could save as much as $286 per year!

At Arrow Plumbing we can help you decide which hybrid water heater is best for you, based on your needs and location.

Call us today at 281.240.6868. Or click here to schedule your Water Heater Consultation.