Almost time to go to shop too. Waiting for some daylight. Motor coming out of my gmc today.
Hope to have it running tomorrow.
Hope to have it running tomorrow.
Stop in for a cup of coffee
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But isn't it box day? You need to celebrate
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For coffee...
Good Morning
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Haven't tried to get in my car. I went for the brush on the grill last night and the doors were iced shut. LOL
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22 here
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Not sure if I will get it installed today, but gonna go get a water heater. Old one was 80gal. I think I'm going with a 50 this time.
Keith look at the instant heat ones also they are tankless and work great, way less on the electric also. Had a paloma and loved it. When this one goes in this house will be getting one.
HD has some rheem which is a good one also.
Search Results for water heater at The Home Depot
Search Results for water heater at The Home Depot
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I helped a friend put one in several years ago, but he has natural gas. To do whole house on electrical ones draws a lot of juice. Would need to do breakers wire etc. Just going for cheapest basic old tanker this time.
I went from a 60 to a 50 and it works great. My youngest stays in the shower until the hot water runs out.
Sucks to take a shorter shower. 
He is ready for the Navy then? 3 Minute rule in effect?I went from a 60 to a 50 and it works great. My youngest stays in the shower until the hot water runs out.
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The 11 a smallest one there only gives a little about 1gpm for 120F temp and draws 57amps...
I wish I had a booster for the kitchen sink. It's a long way from the water heater and on a north wall. Some simple 110 volt unit. I thought I saw one for sale somewhere.
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I do like a long hot show occasionally. Hope I don't run out. I have never run out on the 80 even with more people in house taking showers one after another...I went from a 60 to a 50 and it works great. My youngest stays in the shower until the hot water runs out.
Sounds like a lot of amps but only when there is water flow through them. You need at least a 3GPM for a small house of two people. Tanks heat all the time. Insulate the crap out of it helps.
They have them look at the link I posted. Dad did that also. Nice thing is when the hot water from a tank reaches it it shuts off the boost.
We had a gas one in Hawaii and a 5 gallon tank of propane lasted four months on it.
There's only 3 of us now with different schedules so our smaller one works fine. I'm surprised they don't have setback thermostats like furnaces so you could shut them down during the day when no one is around. May be they have them and I haven't noticed.
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I didn't check the details, but they have them for single sink applications. Don't know how much a regular 110 will do. Just think what it takes to boil a few cups of water. But, if you are already feeding it warm water, it doesn't take much to get it hot.
They should. That would sane some watts for sure. I use a single 110 1800W element from a water heater in the parts washer the lights dim when it is turned on for sure.
No they dont boil has a thermostat built in. They would get sued if it went that hot.
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Yeh, looks like that would be the 18. Draws 75amps! And yeh I get that it isn't a lot of KWs on the bill, but it still needs big wire and upsize the breaker.
They are a savings but like Keefer said you need a lot of amps to make them work. And have to plumb a bit they are wall mounted also.
That's like our boiler for our heat. Our old cast iron boiler was couple hundred gallons, 60,000 btu if I remember. The new one is a Weil McClain energy efficient boiler that heats a gallon and a half at a time. It reduced my winter natural gas bill by $100 a month as soon as it was installed.
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