Tankless Water Heater without pilot [RE-wrenches]

[Frank Fowler]

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Wrenches,
I have some customers who have purchased the Infinion brand tankless water 
heater with no complaints so far. They offer standing pilot, or battery 
operated spark control. They require a minimum 3psi, and 0.66 gpm flow. They 
are marketed by a firm called Akwakai out of Mercer, Wash. For contact info, 
contact me offline.
SUNcerely,
Frank Fowler
Crystal Pines Alternative Energy
530-532-1972
cpae1 at direcway.com
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From: "Ray Walters" <ray at solarray.com>
To: <RE-wrenches at topica.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2004 4:17 PM
Subject: RE: Tankless Water Heater without pilot [RE-wrenches]




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Maybe the Rinnai I measured wasn't up to temperature. I just had it on for
about 10 minutes, and it was in an unheated room in the house with an
outside door. The measurement of 100 watts was made with a Brand meter.
Phantom loads of any sort usually scare me off, and if on continuously
would be 2400 watt hrs/ day which is devastating. I wonder what the duty
cycle in the winter would be and whether the thermostat was adjustable?

Ray



>I just measured my Rinnai water heater's electrical consumption at 4
>watts standby, 30 watts running. They do have an internal heater to
>prevent freezing that probably draws 75 watts or so,
>
>Brad
>
>
>
>Solar Ray wrote:
> >
> > Hi Scott;
> >
> > We've seen this scaling problem here with Aquastars. I quit selling them
> >
> > for the most part, because of the scaling problem and the fact that they
> >
> > don't fire at low flow rates. Nothing like selling a good customer a
> > Staber
> > washer and an Aquastar and then the Staber doesn't use enough water to
> > get
> > the Aquastar to fire! Or the frugal old lady on a rain catch cistern
> > that
> > washes dishes with a quart/ minute and it won't fire either.
> > I recently had a customer with a "Rannai" hotwater heater. It had an
> > almost
> > 100 watt draw while in standby!  It must have had a glowbar or something
> > in
> > there. It also was not mod sine friendly. It was replaced with an
> > Aquastar,
> > since there wasn't space for a regular hotwater heater.
> >
> > Ray
> >
> >
>
>
>Brad Bassett
>AEE
>
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Ray Walters
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President, SolarRay, Inc.
NABCEP Certified Solar PV Installer
BS Mechanical Engineering, UT Austin 88
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