New tankless water heater

[oprn]

Your 4 to 6 foot water table is surface run off. You might want to boil that for human consumption!

My problem with power outages is that my new 3K watt generator does not have enough jam to start a 1/2 hp pump down an 85 foot deep well. Need a bigger one than that to handle the current in rush on start up.

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[chrisflstf]

Could be your pump motor is very old, drawing too much juice

Im on my 2nd tankless water over 35 years. Cut my gas consumption 35%

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10x is a huge start current factor. You can do better than that.
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[chrisflstf]

Startup is usually 2x running current.

[cdennisg]

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[Randy in Maine]

I heat my 1500 square foot house and my 1200 square foot garage/shop with radiant floor heat in 3 zones and get all of my domestic hot water from my little wall mounted propane fired Baxi condensing boiler ~180K BTUs. A bit less than 600 gallons of propane per year. Very efficient and cheap to run over the past 10 years. If the power goes out I can run the whole thing off a small generator or my even camping battery with inverter.

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I like tanks for ease - just have the largest one...so 3 people can take shower and not have to run out of hot water.

I have a boiler for my baseboard heating the whole house - very nice and toasty in real dead of winter.

Cost is a big factor between the systems and maintenance. How much you want to do yourself or others to maintain your unit.

The more hi-tech, the more the layman is set aside.

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[cdennisg]

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Not to come off as a smart ass, but since you brought it up here’s how I stand. I’m not gonna complain about Cracker Barrel or their food. I do plumbing for a living and our local Cracker Barrels provide us with roughly 35% of our business, so I don’t care whether their food is good or not. However, while we are on the subject, I will say that compared to a lot of other restaurants I work in, Cracker Barrels almost always have the cleanest kitchens, and they do make almost all of their food from scratch. Can they beat a good mom and pop diner? Probably not. That said, there are also several other restaurants and diners that I used to eat at until I had a chance to go back in the kitchen, where I quickly changed my mind and have never eaten there again.

My boss and I actually changed two water heaters today, the second being one at (you guessed it!) a Cracker Barrel! The one in Harriman TN to be more specific. The old Bradford White unit had developed two leaks, the major one being inside the burner cavity. The store had a new one ordered and delivered for us, so all we had to do was change the units out. The ones they are currently using are Rheem “Triton” power-vent units, with this fancy smancy new “powered anode” system to help prevent galvanic corrosion and provide longer life to the unit. The old one was a conventional draft model, so we had to run new 3” PVC intake and exhaust pipes, along with a condensate drain. We also removed two very small and undersized expansion tanks and installed a 5 gallon floor mount model.

The first heater we did this morning was a 40 gallon conventional gas heater that made it to 22 years before it finally died. We upgraded them to a 50 gallon unit, so now they have a little bump in water capacity and were very happy to have hot water again.

It’s always a nice thing to have happy customers when you get finished. So I’d consider today a good day!
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[cdennisg]

Did you have lunch while you were there?
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[Zundfolge1432]

Way off topic but here you go. When I stop at Cracker Barrel I get beans and corn bread with onion and chow chow. Yankee boys, canucks and surfers probably have no idea what this is. In and out About half hour and it costs six dollars. Beans are good for you😀

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