I didn't even have to watch the video to know he was talking about a heat pump water heater. I bought one myself when it was time for me to replace the water heater in my house. I installed it myself with the help of a friend and my power bill dropped about $30 a month.
The $1,800 purchase price of the water heater was helped by a $500 cash rebate from my local power company and a $300 tax credit.
It will have paid for itself in three years, and continue working an estimated additional five years past that.
It is a few degrees colder, but I also run a home lab and the water cooler is in the room where my homelab is, so some of the waste heat gets absorbed by my water heater.
It's also in the room right next to my garage, so if I really wanted to, I could duct all of the cold air outside
Back around 2011 or so, me and my dad lived in one of those 40 foot long mini trailers you'd usually see on construction sites. It had a really small bathroom and shower, and the water heater only held 6 gallons..
Well, my dad being extra frugal on the electric bill, he decided to connect the water heater power to a light switch right next to the main light switch, complete with a red light to remind us if it got left on by accident.
Whenever it was shower/bath time, we'd go and turn the water heater on like an hour ahead of time. Only being 6 gallons, it didn't take very long to get hot, and I mean good and hot, looking past the low capacity anyways.
I have no idea how much he saved on his electric bill, but I'm sure it was a good bit, seeing as how the water heater stayed off most of the time.
Nah, my water heater is the size of several small blocks of houses, includes a large solar heat collector, gathers wasteheat from power plants and local biomass and provides warmth to tens of thousands of houses via a huge network of underground pipes.
That's way cooler than this little thing.
Edit: it apparently also includes an electric heating and storage unit that runs when there's an excess of electricity.
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My water heater is cooler than yours | Technology Connections [58:44] | Spyke
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Oh boy, a heat pump video!
I didn't even have to watch the video to know he was talking about a heat pump water heater. I bought one myself when it was time for me to replace the water heater in my house. I installed it myself with the help of a friend and my power bill dropped about $30 a month.
The $1,800 purchase price of the water heater was helped by a $500 cash rebate from my local power company and a $300 tax credit.
It will have paid for itself in three years, and continue working an estimated additional five years past that.
How much colder is your basement in winter? No one talks about this, the heat has to come from the surrounding environment.
Technology Connections did, in the video above.
It is a few degrees colder, but I also run a home lab and the water cooler is in the room where my homelab is, so some of the waste heat gets absorbed by my water heater.
It's also in the room right next to my garage, so if I really wanted to, I could duct all of the cold air outside
That sucks. Mine gets good and hot. I wouldn't want it to be cooler. Then it would be less effective as a heater.
smh! I almost replied thinking you thought the heat pumps did not work as well.
Back around 2011 or so, me and my dad lived in one of those 40 foot long mini trailers you'd usually see on construction sites. It had a really small bathroom and shower, and the water heater only held 6 gallons..
Well, my dad being extra frugal on the electric bill, he decided to connect the water heater power to a light switch right next to the main light switch, complete with a red light to remind us if it got left on by accident.
Whenever it was shower/bath time, we'd go and turn the water heater on like an hour ahead of time. Only being 6 gallons, it didn't take very long to get hot, and I mean good and hot, looking past the low capacity anyways.
I have no idea how much he saved on his electric bill, but I'm sure it was a good bit, seeing as how the water heater stayed off most of the time.
I like Technology Connections, I don't know why I stopped watching them. I start watching them again.
Was it because you saw them posting on Mastodon? Because that's why I stopped.
Nah, my water heater is the size of several small blocks of houses, includes a large solar heat collector, gathers wasteheat from power plants and local biomass and provides warmth to tens of thousands of houses via a huge network of underground pipes.
That's way cooler than this little thing.
Edit: it apparently also includes an electric heating and storage unit that runs when there's an excess of electricity.