I’m aware but I haven’t heard people’s experiences with them. I ask because I’m shopping for water heating right now and debating the expense of getting 240 run to the water heater for a heat pump.
Electric tankless sounds impossible (yes, I know they exist, I just mean they don’t sound like something that should be able to), since the amount of BTUs required to run a gas tankless at peak is absolutely nuts – tankless gas water-heaters run on 3/4" pipe instead of the normal 1/2" since they need to have so much burst heat. That doesn’t sound possible for electric.
People that cheer about tankless have never had a tankless. They’re awful. They can’t hold a temperature and are a great way to get scalded then frozen. Tanks are very efficient these days and have none of the usage downfalls, besides being a quarter of the cost.
I have a gas tankless, and it works really well. When we moved in, I needed to turn the temperature down to prevent the issue you described; It was set at 65C.
Tankless systems should be set to 50C/120F, whereas tank systems are supposed to be hotter to prevent Legionnaires’.
A whole house model will need a 100A circuit to itself. You could install small units in each location that needs hot water but that is also expensive.
Holy crap like 24000W of juice on tap. That is not screwing around. Awesome. A neat option but sounds like something for new builds not retrofitting an older home.
What kind of usage do you have? We’ve got a 120v 40 gallons tank at our cottage and it’s more than enough for three showers, worst case it takes about an hour to heat the whole tank. My father in law has an 80 gallons unit and he’s never ran out of hot water even with people visiting.
I don’t understand how people cannot believe that heating things with electricity works well, it’s the norm in Quebec (and anywhere where electricity is cheap really).
Sure where it’s cheap here it would cost more to move to electricity. Yah Alberta Advantage /s
