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Okay guys, so we've had this tankless hot water heater installed for about three and a half years
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Bringing over some refreshments. Refreshments. Just the one that I need. Yes
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We promised. With vodka. And we've got a few questions on it
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There's over 200 or 300 comments on this thing. Most of them saying I'm not a licensed electrician. No, I'm not. This is a DIY
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We're not showing you how to do it, but just saying we did it and this is how we did it
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You take your own precautions. teenage fan. We're gonna mount it up
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We're in a... You keep wiping the teeth. Yeah, you're sweating on everything
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The whole floor. I can't step up. Okay, we didn't have to move the exhaust
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We didn't have to jack up. We didn't have to do anything. Look at that. We're gonna go over a few questions
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we got in the blog, about four, and we're going to combine the two
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And we're going to talk about our user experience. And she's going to tell you
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all the cool stuff about it. I'm not even too much. So she's giving me about
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a minute per question, so I don't think I can do that
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But we'll try. No, no. No, I'm giving you 30 seconds. 30 seconds
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To answer the question. So. I know we'll go into some detail, but like just get it out, you know, just get it out
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I'm long-winded. I work, you know, my job as a project manager, you would talk a lot
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See, and you're doing it again. Here we go. So, okay. So, the first question is, can you use the existing connections of your old tank wire heater
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and we'll just work on the 100-amp breaker box. Well, the tank water heater usually uses about 30 amps, so that's a no
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This uses three breakers at 40 amps. And then can you use this on the 100-amp breaker box
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No. You have three 40-amp breakers. That's 120 amps. so a lot of juice is coming through this thing
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just for this not your appliances or anything in your house or running your AC
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just for this so this uses more than double our AC so
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that gives you a perspective of how much power this thing sucks
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we just went through a hurricane we didn't go plug this into a generator
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and get hot water while the power is out Well, we didn't get any power average this time, but I don't think a generator would have powered that
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A big generator would, but it's 120 amps. It's a lot of amps
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A household generator. 2024K. Right. That's a lot of amps. So, yeah
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Okay, so I probably went way over. Okay so the next question is will this work in cold locations And how fast do you get the hot water
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So, how fast do you get the hot water? Well, it's installed in the same location as your old hot water heater
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So you get the hot water at the same speed that we got the hot water from the old water
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You're like warming up your water? Yeah. It takes that long to clear the cold water out of fire
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So it just takes a while. It is endless. So if you've got kids, they will probably take them endless hot water showers
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And you've got to knock on the door and say, hey, it's over
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They take an hour-long shower. You just spark 24 kilowatts. Right. Let that sink in
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That's a lot. And how much money that can be on your electric bill
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Oh, yeah. every month. And every day showers, that's a lot. That's another question
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Does this lower your electric bill? Yes and no. If you use it
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like you use a tank, it could lower it. Yeah, because when you run out of water..
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When you use it, you're thinking, well, you've got to pay for it
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You've got to pay for it. I think it could actually up your water
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your water bill for one and your electric bill if you are just thinking that it's just endless well
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it'll cost you it will fill up the entire garden tub with boiling hot water so you'll be nice and
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toasty and then if you need to warm up the water you know while you're taking a bath
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just yeah it's kind of dangerous in those situations well i'm practicing sailboat living
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so I'm taking them cellar set showers so I turn off the water
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this is why I said we're okay what's the next question well we already have a question
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how do I work in home locations oh yeah I'll leave a link down below to
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I wrote an article on this that includes the graph or you can look at
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Altimore's website and they have a nice lovely graph it shows your gallons per minute
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per location. So the colder your location, the colder your ground temperature, of course
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the less gallons per minute it's going to make. So yeah, it's going to happen. But here in Florida
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in the wintertime, well right now in the summertime, I have this set to 109, and that's 110
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But usually in the wintertime I throw it up to about 120. Right
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Because I like to sit at half between cold and warm and get that nice comfortable shower
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But in the summer, what we've noticed is that the groundwater is so warm here in Florida
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that you literally turning it on to cold. All cold. Because it's like a warm shower
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And you're just like, why don't we even have this on? Maybe we should just turn it off and just suck up from the water
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Now she's sucking up all the time. Maybe, I don't know, we've been doing this wrong
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But in the wintertime, it gets down to the 40s, even sometimes the mid-30s
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It does. And that day is a bit frigid to take just a cold shower
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No, you usually put more. But see, it goes with its season
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And that what I saying I mean people always ask well what about the temp And I like it really depends where you live what your temperature stays in your groundwater and what your summers and your springs and your falls and your winters are like It different everywhere
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Well, right now you can tell it's right now in Florida, it's 70 and she's wearing a coat
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It's cold. so yeah so and you'll climatize to whatever your temperature is you might take cooler showers
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so now we're going to go into our user experience and me and like i said i'm trying them them uh
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baby showers so she's going to go more into the experience and when i get in there and get
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you doing the dishes and stuff and what her experience is like in the shower because
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I'm not considerate well that is another question but it kind of goes back
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to the I guess the temperature so if I'm in the shower
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and somebody decides to go take another like another there's another shower going
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or somebody turns on the washing machine or the dishwasher what happens is that it gets cold
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and so then you turn it back up and then all of a sudden
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like a minute later it's scalding hot because it's plain ketchup but you do have to adjust
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but then it goes back and then everything is getting what it needs
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that's my experience with it but I think you get that even with a tank sometimes
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if somebody else is taking a shower you're constantly having to adjust well you won't get the temp spikes
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but they're not like boiling your skin off spikes no No, no
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I mean, they're just, you notice that there's a difference in temp, and you know that somebody else is using the water heater
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Yes. So, yeah. So, Chris, don't do the dishes while Danielle's taking a shower
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because it affects her happiness. I don't know how many times we've had this little discussion
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But, no, this tankless home water heater, you know, when we had all the boys in the house, they'd have three showers going
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I'd be in there doing something in the kitchen. Not cooking, of course, because she's the cook
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And, you know, and we'd still have a plane of water. And this is in Florida
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So that has been a great user experience with this. Now, what else would you say
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Well, we've had questions. Well, I already kind of went into that earlier about the whole money thing
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It really depends. I think I like it better than the tank because with the tank, you know, when you get cold water, you can't wash your dishes
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Like, okay, so if you want to wash your dishes in the dishwasher and you want to get them, like, really sterilized, clean
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you really can't get that with the tank because it, like, pretty much takes all of it
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And it takes a while to heat it back up. So another pro is she can fill up her entire bathtub
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Oh, is it instant? It's not. No. We went over that. It's not instant
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But she can fill up her whole bathtub and have, because the tank wouldn't fill up the whole bathtub
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So this will fill up the tank. Plus I can, you know
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What do you mean the bathtub? This will fill up the whole bathtub
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Plus you know if somebody else wants to take a shower after that there plenty of hot water So that is another pro the cons i haven seen any cons i know that people say this uh you know you have to uh to clean it and stuff but we have a whole house
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filtration system well that could be why we don't have to clean it and we have a filtration system
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of water that comes through here so our whole house has got um you know filtered water coming
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into it. So if you don't, I would probably do the cleaning thing every year
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Yeah, so, and just the clean valves, they're just these two valves. They each have plugs
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on. You just flip these to the off position. You plug this sucker in, and then it just
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runs water through. I know I had somebody say, well, you don't have the cleaning valves
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and stuff. Well, there they are. They've been installed. They won. So, and then another
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and you have a little yeah see yeah well that's just if it if it if it over pressurizes it would
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just shoot out the garage and not blow up the pipe and shit like that so all that's there all
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the safety precautions are there i know di wise most people don't want to touch a breaker box
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so if you're not like I said I did this you don't have to
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call on that patrician do everything else and then call on that patrician
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to do the rest do what you can do if all it is is just putting this thing
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hanging this thing on the wall just do that I'm not recommending you do anything
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that you are uncomfortable doing and I do not want you to get hurt
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so you take the precautions for you. And with that, we are going to close this video
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After all this talk, I'm waiting for this girl to cook one of her lovely recipes
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If you want to see her recipes... I can't have some more humor right now. If you want to see some of her recipes
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you go out there and check out that blog. It's down down below. ChrisDoesWhat.com. Go to the recipe section
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You can see all her yumminess. It is good. He's really hyper right now
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Right. We'll do another video on that. See if we can answer them. See what you guys are looking for
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And constructive criticism. I know in the first install I got lots of you suck and did it wrong
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So don't do that because three and a half years later, my day at wrong is still doing it right
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And we've got lots of warm water in the house. And y'all please take care
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Bye. Y'all stay tuned. Meanwhile, cat littered all over
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That's one of the greatest, clean up the grease
