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Originally Posted by Delphinus
Seems to me they're supposed to last longer than that, but IME anything after 10 years is "anything goes". I don't know anything about dip tubes, interesting, will have to read up on that. I just kinda thought that the tanks just got less and less capacity as they got older and then poof one day they start leaking and then you go get a new heater. 
I kind of like the idea of an on-demand/inline heater instead of a tank ... when the time comes to replace my tank I was thinking I'd look into that.
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Make sure you do your homework on that Tony, not as good as one would think......lots of problems with a lot of units.
Some are not that bad though.
You're lucky if you get 5 years out of the new tanks with out any service, but it does truly depend on the water conditions. I hooked a water softener up to my system, this is probably the best thing you can do in a household system.