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Tankless water heaters
The tankless hot water heater activates as water demand is initialized, however, hot water output is limited by production capacity. A consideration with a tankless water heater is how many degrees of temperature the water heater can raise the water passing through it. Considering a winter climate where city water during the cold season reaches the home at 55°F, a tankless water heater must be able to heat that water to 120°F (an increase of 65°). This is true. What I have seen is you end up here in Calgary with a very low hot water output using a TLess WH. (Calgary water 55.3 f)Forget about having a long hot shower or how about 1 hour later to fill the bathtub. What I have seen is tankless HWheaters run in conjunction with large regular water heaters turned on low. Small 6 gallon water set up for small usage. So cold water runs into a 60 g WH (set to hold water temp at about 80 f) from there it goes to a TLess WH set to bring it up to shower temp; from there it goes to a 6 gal water heater designed to be used for washing hands, face, filling up a sink. So ie: scenario You turn on a tap to wash hands water goes from main to 60g WH to TLess WH to 6 g WH and you get immediate hot water. This is an effective way to get the best usage of a stong need for Hot water and the least amount of water used. (it takes about 3+ g of water run through a Tless wh before it is hot) Just my 2 cents worth. |
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Well I think we are going to go the tankless route if we can. Although I am now just going over our tankless options and the costs associated with one. As long as I have enough water to shower with, and maybe for someone else to wash their hands it will be fine.
I figure its probably appropriate to make a tank related update as well. Last time I tested the tank, which I think might have been Tuesday or Wednesday, I had slightly elevated Ammonia, along with some nitrates, and phosphates. The tank also has some beautiful stringly green hair algae with complements the brown diatomes nicely. The tank needs a water change this week, and then, provided all my levels are still good this coming weekend, I'll slowly start restocking it. I figure by the end of the month, assuming everything continues to go well, I will have my livestock back in my system and things can hopefully continue on as they were. |
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Well let me preface this with at least my house doesn't stink like clam die off anymore.
What we pulled out of the tank following the flood; The tank on October 19th The skimmer overflowed after getting things back up and running again. This was in a period of less the 10 hours. The tank on the 26th This is the surface flow now I found a creature to live in my tank for a few days Tank yesterday : ( The temporary return is a hairball now So while the tank's chemistry reads fine, it obviously isn't fine. I will not put livestock in the tank as is right now. I will have to figure out what I want to do. The basement |
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Catherine its looking great kido , i see tha the hair algae is back again there must be something wrong with something there. I have never seen some one having that much problem with their set up starting out with your experience.
good on you to have the patience. I couldn't OH YA what a great time to start dosing Vodka you wont burn anything
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Well the tank is at the point where all you can do is laugh about it.
The Dart return pump was seized again this morning when I woke up. I would also like to point out that I am getting extremely fed up with the tank. So I am proposing that sell off the 180g tank itself, and build a sweet cube in its place. |
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So I took the opportunity to do some water tests and at least I can be happy because for once my dKH isn't low! Yay!
Temp: 81.9 (I fear we have another heater disaster pending, I'm watching this) pH: 8.12 SG: 1.026 ORP: 329 dKH: 7 Nitrate: 0.02 (Elos) Nitrate: 0 Nitrite: 0 Phosphates: 0.11 I figure the phosphates are leaching from the rock and feeding the GHA. I think of the 0.11 number more so as what is leeching out of the rocks, but not being used by the GHA. I was thinking of participating in Red Coral's Rent a Seahare program starting this afternoon. I also found that with some EXTREME force you can blow off the techni-colour algae. It doesn't seem like all is lost anymore. |
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At least you can find something good in all the tragedy you have had with this tank!
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