Lee, I never thought of that thats a good Idea. I was very hesitant to install a water heater because of that reason, 500 watts is plenty enough for a small water heater.
TURBO!!!!!cause bottles are for babies and superchargers blow!!! Which would you rather have, go fast goodies or shiny shoes? Your feet may look good, but if your engine blows up, you ain't going anywhere. Yanni Marinated S/V Princess Thalia Columbia 8.7 #73 On the Hard Mayo MD ________________________________ From: Lee Haefele <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2009 7:07:09 AM Subject: [Liveaboard] Hot water heater I have been very successful heating hot water with 120V inverter power from battery, restored by excess solar power. I changed the element in my junky 10.5 gallon Atwood water heater to a 2000 Watt/240V, at 120V this is just 500 Watts. This does not overload my 1700W inverter or wiring. Anyway, what I found was that 1/2 hour a day of heating gives me hot shower water. A smaller tank would take less time and a more insulated tank (Mine has 1/2" fiberglass insulation) might hold this for 2 days. Adding up the BTU input does not give these figures, there must be some carry over day to day. I use a 1 hour home depot bath fan timer so that I don't forget to turn it off. Lee Haefele Leopard 38 Alesto 2 moored at Jalousie, St Lucia _______________________________________________ Liveaboard mailing list [email protected] To adjust your membership settings over the web http://www.liveaboardnow.org/mailman/listinfo/liveaboard To subscribe send an email to [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] The archives are at http://www.liveaboardnow.org/pipermail/liveaboard/ To search the archives http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected] The Mailman Users Guide can be found here http://www.gnu.org/software/mailman/mailman-member/index.html
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