Electric Water Heater or am I insane?

[Fanatical Meat]

It’s not ducted to outside?

It’s weird seeing condensate lines on a hot water heater

Not now, it’s in my basement, vendor instructions said if it’s over 700-something square feet no need to vent so I didn’t.
Works very well plenty of hot water, “talks” with the nest.

 

[paperfist]

Not now, it’s in my basement, vendor instructions said if it’s over 700-something square feet no need to vent so I didn’t.
Works very well plenty of hot water, “talks” with the nest.

Yeah I was reading the install doc. It’s pretty “techy”

I was curious to see if the ducting was for the cold or exhaust fumes. Usually electric doesn’t need to be ducted.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Yeah I was reading the install doc. It’s pretty “techy”

I was curious to see if the ducting was for the cold or exhaust fumes. Usually electric doesn’t need to be ducted.

It’s for the cold exhaust, there appears to be an intake one too but I’m not concerned about that since I need it to dehumidify too.
Basement feels a little cooler now, thermostat broke but I’ll put another down there to check.

 

[lsd]

It is & I agree with your earlier opinion of its added complexity to break however I’m set for one year with Rheem and an additional five years with Home Depot. Year 7 and beyond is the danger zone.
I do get concerned that the display is perpetually on, I’m a previous telecom guy and the screen appears to be decent quality for what it is however I’m not sold on the idea of the app being compatible with whatever device I have in 8+ years and will the lcd still function?
Overall it’s a pretty neat unit. Wife is much happier now which is priceless.
I didn’t post a picture because I need to insulate the hot water lines, it looked far too ghetto re-purposing the old pipe insulation.
I need to figure out the leak sensor thing too. HD doesn’t sell it and I’m trying to understand how a sensor turns a valve but maybe there is some valve inside the unit it trips when it detects water.

*Washer on warm and shower running simultaneously was a success

Anyway you can run a bath and shower the same time? I've been looking at the hybrids for some time now but we have a 4 person household and I want a 50 gallon model. Right now we have dual 40gal electrics and it's way more than enough.
There are 65gal models out there but its $$$$.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

Anyway you can run a bath and shower the same time? I've been looking at the hybrids for some time now but we have a 4 person household and I want a 50 gallon model. Right now we have dual 40gal electrics and it's way more than enough.
There are 65gal models out there but its $$$$.

I only have one bath so I don’t want to guess.
Four person house sounds more like a 65 Gallon tank to me.

 

[Paperdoc]

lsd said, "I've been looking at the hybrids for some time now but we have a 4 person household and I want a 50 gallon model. Right now we have dual 40gal electrics and it's way more than enough.
There are 65gal models out there but its $$$$. "

Many years ago when we replaced an old oil conversion gun system with a high-efficicency gas furnace, we also replaced the old electric water heater (50 USG) with gas water tanks we rented from the utility. The standard model, about 40 USG because the recovery rate (heating rate) with gas is faster than electric, still seemed small to me. They could supply a 50% larger model for about twice the price, so I asked about renting two standard tanks instead. Sure, they said, so that's what we did. Double the price of one tank, but double the storage capacity AND double the heating rate overall, so recovery time was still very fast. With 2 adults and 3 teens we never ran out of hot water. We ran that way for over 15 years, and finally reduced to one tank when the demand was lower and the old tanks developed leaks.

 

[Greenman]

I only have one bath so I don’t want to guess.
Four person house sounds more like a 65 Gallon tank to me.

My home had 6 people in it for years and a 40 gallon gas water heater did just fine.

 

[Fanatical Meat]

My home had 6 people in it for years and a 40 gallon gas water heater did just fine.

Gas is much better than electric, I’d love to have a gas option.

 

[paperfist]

My home had 6 people in it for years and a 40 gallon gas water heater did just fine.

I had a 40 gallon electric for a few months while I switched over my boiler and I’d wipe that thing out in 10 minutes.

 

[lsd]

Ordered the 65 gallon version today. It's on sale until the 3rd i believe.
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Rheem-P...Electric-Water-Heater-XE65T10HD50U1/303419586

 

[spacejamz]

is there an option to deactivate tractor beams on this thing?

 

[Fanatical Meat]

is there an option to deactivate tractor beams on this thing?

Nope it’s hard core 24/7

 

[spacejamz]

Nope it’s hard core 24/7