Water heating????

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Originally Posted by reptilian74

You wouldn't want to pay the bill for a tankless water heater running with a constant flow. That means the heater would never turn off. Another problem with constant flow is that the water temp would be falling much faster, therefore the heater working more, thus using more energy. Also if you have a constant flow how will the temps be regulated?

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I should be more specific when I say water heater I mean some sort of water heating element. lol. Damn me and my generalizations hehehe.
I am going to have a holding tank with i will say 20 gallons. The holding tank will have a water heater such as a fish tank heater but the one i am going to get is actually stronger (block heater for a truck) I will have my t-stat probe in the holding tank and the heater controlled by the t-stat. Then I will then have a 120 low pressure pump pumping the already warmed water through the tubes that I will route and back to the holding tank. This way I only have a low voltage pump and one heating element rather than alot of flexwatt.

Hi,

How feasable would solar heating for the water be? I always heard that works quite efficiently - don't know if I'd trust the batteries in an extended light drought though.


del

Yeah I was looking at that while trying to track down a motorized ball valve its a bit expensive. Other than that it seems like it would work pretty good.