atuel
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Anyone make a horizontal tank electric water heater? Preferably a heat pump hybrid based unit.
Lots of reasons I dont need to bore you with why I want to put it where I do, but the ideal space for this would be about 5' from where my new geothermal exchanger is going. I cant put it immediately next to my geothermal exchanger cause my breaker boxes are there and code wont allow it to fit.
That space feet away is under a small deck like area that leads up to my back door... approx 3' height clearance, but its about 6' wide and 8' deep. Its a 4 bedroom house, so the low boy units arent really big enough and would be harder to service with multiple of them under this deck.
I'd like to setup two tanks under this space... one that is fed off the geothermal as a pre-heat tank (no power), that ultimately feeds into the other that is powered. I should be able to easily fit a couple of 80 gallon tanks in this space if anyone made them in a variety than can be mounted horizontally.
I have no access to gas at my place, but also considering an alternative to use a tankless electric heater in a booster fashion. Its less than 10' from my breaker box and I have 400A of service, so wiring would be easy. I'm in a cooling dominated area and the geothermal unit i'm going with is known to produce 100-115 degree water pretty easily at more than 20 gallons per hour, so hopefully wouldnt even have to run the tankless unit most of the year (only during the cold months maybe if the geothermal doesnt produce enough heat to both heat the house and the water).
Anywhere have efficiency comparisons of electric tankless vs standard electic vs heat pump hybrid?
Lots of reasons I dont need to bore you with why I want to put it where I do, but the ideal space for this would be about 5' from where my new geothermal exchanger is going. I cant put it immediately next to my geothermal exchanger cause my breaker boxes are there and code wont allow it to fit.
That space feet away is under a small deck like area that leads up to my back door... approx 3' height clearance, but its about 6' wide and 8' deep. Its a 4 bedroom house, so the low boy units arent really big enough and would be harder to service with multiple of them under this deck.
I'd like to setup two tanks under this space... one that is fed off the geothermal as a pre-heat tank (no power), that ultimately feeds into the other that is powered. I should be able to easily fit a couple of 80 gallon tanks in this space if anyone made them in a variety than can be mounted horizontally.
I have no access to gas at my place, but also considering an alternative to use a tankless electric heater in a booster fashion. Its less than 10' from my breaker box and I have 400A of service, so wiring would be easy. I'm in a cooling dominated area and the geothermal unit i'm going with is known to produce 100-115 degree water pretty easily at more than 20 gallons per hour, so hopefully wouldnt even have to run the tankless unit most of the year (only during the cold months maybe if the geothermal doesnt produce enough heat to both heat the house and the water).
Anywhere have efficiency comparisons of electric tankless vs standard electic vs heat pump hybrid?