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Originally Posted by Pete::51
Before you buy an accumulator, you can test to see if it will help by draining your water heater, the refill it from the fresh water tank. Don’t open any hot water faucets, you want the HWT to have extra air it. Then run cold water from the faucets that have had the most pulsing. The air on top of the HWT will dampen the pulsing just like an accumulator would. If that works to reduce the noise, bleed the excess air off the HWT through one of the hot water faucets to see if the noise comes back. RV water heaters are supposed to have air on top to allow for expansion but that air also dampens vibrations that travel through the water in the piping. If you somehow lost that air, you would experience more noise from your water piping
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Thanks for the suggestion. I will give that a try!