Recent content by jim1450

Mine is a few years out of warranty & I'm mounting it 4" from a subpanel so I'm not going to use 2 short pieces of romex. When it dies I won't replace it with another Rheem ot Titan The other units I've had say if being used with a tank style mount it before but I've mounted them after because...

That's how it was explained to me but there's still a 20 amp circuit with a 30 amp breaker. I bought a commercial 20 amp outlet & #10 wire I guess my ***** is the way it's designed someone could have an older garage with #14 wire & stick a 30 amp breaker in the circuit because of the vague...

Instructions say use a 30 amp breaker. 1 of the reasons I bought it is the 25% duty cycle @ full power, most of the other units I looked @ were dual voltage but multiprocess & since I already have the 210 EXT I just went with the 120 volt 140

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I don't understand some of the things manufacturers do. Besides the water heater my Everlast 140 mig welder came with a 15 amp plug, #12 wire cord & instructions say to use a 30 amp breaker. They said there's something in the NEC about welders & start up draw.

Menards or Lowes didn't have #3 copper SER, I knew about the smaller ground & Menards didn't have it either, I'll have to find it someplace else. I live in a small rural vacation town, all the stores here are much smaller than the stores in the Cleveland area but Cleveland doesn't have Menards yet

So I'm guessing the THWN is easier to work with. Use the 90°column for RHW-2 & the 75° for THWN?

Yesterday I ordered some 1 1/4" FMC & bought #3 THHN for the 100 amp subpanel, got it @ Menards. I was looking @ the other wire they carry, no THWN but they have RHW-2. Since I'll have plenty of FMC left over I might try to use it for the barn from the main panel to where the run exits the house...

A few winters ago propane was 2.5 times what it is now & was hard to get, I was running low & was worried about running out so I turned down the temp of my heat pump compressor lockout. I own my own 500 gal tank, they normally will only put 400 gal in it but the min fill is 250, if I do 250 in...

I emailed Rheem on Wed night, reply had the manual attached & a phone # to call. I called the tech support & got transferred a few times & was told by the last clueless rep I talked that he had to put me on hold & check on it, I waited a long time & finally hung up. I'll get a 6' piece 6/2 &...

Thanks again, plan on calling Rheem tomorrow. Was a brand new unit, I bought plenty of stuff from Amazon Warehouse deals but not this & I believe if it was a return they would sell it as open box through warehouse. Guess they could've mistakenly used the Romex from a RTE9 on my 13 The whip is...

Thanks It's been sitting in my basement for a few years & I never got around to using it but since I'm getting a new barn built I thought I should. After looking closer @ the whip it's #8 with a 10 ground, tag on it says 54 amps. It's not as bad as I 1st thought but #8 seems small for...

Opened up, funny the mounting holes are all blocked by the chambers.

Amazon, I usually try to get it from them even if they're a little more.

Bought it new from Amazon, other 2 ebay heaters I had were wired different. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B003UHUSGQ/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Sorry about picture size