The Rheem Performance 40 Gal. Natural Gas Short The Rheem Performance 40 Gal. Natural Gas Short Water Heater comes with a 32 000 BTU/hour environmentally friendly Low NOx burner that provides ample hot water for households with 2 to 4 people. The push button ignition system ensures safe.

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General Electric Water Heater Age De-Coding Guide

GE water heater data tag example

Shown here, the data tag for a G.E. brand (General Electric) water heater.

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A close-up photo of this GE water heater data tag is given below.

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Serial No. GE A511315388

We format this GE water heater serial number as GE AWWYYnnnnn where 51 is the week (December) and YY is 13 or 2013.

The enlarged view of this data tag given below confirms this guess as it tells us explicitly that the Manufacture Date for this water heater was 18 Dec2013.

GE Water Heater serial number formats

GE MMYY1234567 where MM indicates month and YY year of manufacture encoded numerically

GE AWWYYnnnnn

GENG MMYYP12345 where the NG refers to Natural Gas

GERNMMYY123456

GE Furnace Age Query: (Nov 18, 2012) Lyn said: I am trying to determine the age of my electric f.a. furnace.

It is a General Electric made in Toronto, Ontario.

The Serial number is Ser# 398 870 T21
The model number is BWL730G172B.

If someone could please advise the age of my furnace, it would be greatly appreciated.
Thanking you in advance.
Lyn

Reply: You've sent us a warm air heating system code not a water heater code. This article and comment page are for water heaters. For details on age determination for heating boilers & furances see AGE of HEATERS, BOILERS, FURNACES.

But I make your code as March 1998

For a complete guide to GE or General Electric HVAC and other equipment you will need to see the pages of data on GE found in Carson Dunlop Associates Associates comprehensive Technical Reference Guide.

Generally for GE water heaters the first one or two digits are the month and the next two the year of manufacture.

So your heater was made in month 3 and in year 98 - March 1998.

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  Tel: 1-800-432-2737 (GE Appliance Servicve)
• G.E. Water Heater warranties and other water heater information can be found online at Website: http://www.geappliances.com/

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