Time for New Hot Water Heater

[dremd]

Originally Posted by elhigh

Plumb the dump loop to your biodiesel processor. Why pay for heat when you have a convenient fusion reactor beaming power directly to your house?

In the works. there is no hot water plumbing anyplace near where the bio processor will live. I'm definitely planning on using it at lest for drying. I will however need a circulation pump, any ideas?

Originally Posted by elhigh

Damn I've got to build one of these things. And the place I want the water heater is under the house. Sure, it'd put it outside of the insulated envelope, but where I live winters aren't that bad, and even if I wound up dumping some amps into it once in a while, it'd still be way ahead of dumping amps into it all the time. It'd also take it out of the air conditioned space, and that's more important to me.

There is very little heat coming off of the tankless heater; it is in my old insulated water heater cabinet, and it isn't warmer than outside of it (was blistering with propane.
IMHO not worth moving . . . .

[ttoyoda]

I have been running all PVC for a while now, so nothing I can do about past lead exposure. All I can say is that we never drink the water here, other than Ice which is on the cold side anyways.

I think it is only a big issue (well, depending on HOW much lead) for little kids.
Older kids are killing brain cells with booze etc. anyway, so really, who cares about lead.

[COMP]

Originally Posted by dremd

If you want I can take some exact measurements/ better pics of mine so you can build your own. I wouldn't bother "buying" one like this, they are to easy to build.

yes,, please

[dremd]

Just boarded up the glass of the Solar heater. I also lowered my elevation all the way flush with the roof top. It is bolted down with 8 3/8" 5" lag bolts through a 2x12 and in to a 5x9 beam on one side. On the elevation side it is held by 2 1/2" all thread rods with washers on the heater side.

I'm not terribly worried about it; I'm more worried about the 4 Dishes (1Starband + Dish network; 1 dish 500; 1 dish hd; and WildBlue) up on my roof.

[dremd]

Made it through ~ 100 mph winds no problem what so ever.

Wild Blue Dish didn't fair so well. . . . . Back up now.

[boxchain]

Originally Posted by dremd

Made it through ~ 100 mph winds no problem what so ever.

Wild Blue Dish didn't fair so well. . . . . Back up now.

Glad to hear Gustav wasn't too bad to you...my neighbors were nice enough to send over my roof vent :O

[BrianAbington]

so let me get this straight dremd...water goes through the solar heater and into the bosch unit...but because its already heated your bosch just maintains a steady temp...thus using less propane because it knows the waters already heated? correct?

[dremd]

Originally Posted by boxchain

Glad to hear Gustav wasn't too bad to you...my neighbors were nice enough to send over my roof vent :O

For the third hurricane in a row we have been incredibly fortunate.
This one was looking bad, but it wasn't bad at all at my house, my camp 20 miles away got hit fairly bad. If anyone is incredibly interested; check out MobileMe Gallery

[dremd]

Originally Posted by Binger

so let me get this straight dremd...water goes through the solar heater and into the bosch unit...but because its already heated your bosch just maintains a steady temp...thus using less propane because it knows the waters already heated? correct?

98% correct; the only difference is I have switched from propane over to Electric.

Some days the bosch doesn't even switch on, somedays it does some work, and sometimes it is darn near the only source of heat.

[BrianAbington]

wow...definatly a system worth considering