Features

• Marathon Electric Series offers a lightweight tank and an efficient design that ensures it can easily be carried anywhere and makes it one of the most portable water heaters.


• The durability and long lasting ability of the tank is ensured through the seamless polybutene material that the tank is built with. This prevents any kind of rust and corrosion.


• Preventing dents and scratches is the molded polyethylene outer shell and this depicts the robustness of this particular Rheem hot water heater model.


• The highest energy factor is available with Marathon Electric Series.


• The water heater is insulated with polyurethane Envirofoam that helps extensively in minimizing energy consumption.


• The bowl shaped bottom does not allow settlement of sediments.

Specifications

• This electric water heater tank is made from blow‐molded polybutene.


• The water heater comes with pipe wrap energy saving kit.


• It features bowl shaped bottom and polyethylene outer shell.


• This particular model of water heater comes with factory installed vacuum relief valve, temperature and pressure relief valve.


• The gallon capacities available are 40, 50, 85 and 105.


• Marathon Electric water heaters come with an energy factor of 0.94


• This Marathon water heater includes a lifetime limited tank warranty and a six year limited parts warranty.


• The heavy duty Marathon series that features 85 and 105 gallon capacities comes with 10 years limited tank warranty and 5 year limited parts warranty.

Performance

This is one of the lightest hot water heaters that one can ever purchase and therefore the portability and durability that it offers is quite excellent. That's not all even the energy savings one can derive through this unit is unbelievable because it comes with a pipe wrap energy saving kit.

There's another feature too that further checks energy consumption and that is the Polyurethane Envirofoam™ insulation. The factory installed temperature and pressure relief valve automatically keeps the temperature in control.

Undoubteldy the pros outnumber the number of cons any day and the only con one can think of is that since the water heater supports a plastic body therefore it does not use an anode rode. Though even with plastic built, the water heater does offer long lasting durability but with the anode rod the lifecycle of this series would have been much more.

Conclusion

This particular model of hot water heater is excellent where performance, reliability and quality is concerned. The presence of superior quality materials has undoubtedly made this model of Rheem water heater a robust and a sturdy option.

It contains a thermally fused element that offers protection from dry-firing while the stainless steel incoloy prevents the lower element from lime sediments.

The Marathon Electric water heater comes with automated pressure relief valve and vacuum relief valve therefore it doesn't require one to adjust the valves manually. Overall, the features of Marathon water heaters make it one of the most desired water heater systems.