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I’ll guess that the new high efficiency water heater the original poster mentioned probably does run on propane, but it needs electricity to start it (gets rid of the pilot light). The newer high efficiency products are great to reduce energy consumption but they are a pain if the power goes out.
I have a similar issue with a high efficiency furnace – it’s supposed to be drained from any residual water condensate if it will be cold and the power out. What a pain! It was much easier with older furnaces.
Back to the original poster – you are missing some information such as thermal resistance, but you could make some measurements when you are there for a time. Turn it off, take a sample out of the drain every couple of hours for some period of time and plot the result. Extend the line out and let us know what you find. That’ll be some real data.
We got a text around 6:20 last night that power was back on, but the PG&E outage line still reports it’s off. Did it go out again?
…and if you have a propane water heater, I’ve found that it’s more than adequate to set the control to “pilot” when we leaving during the Winter…That little flame protects the tank from freezing, just fine.
Then we simply turn it to “on” when we arrive.Everything is back on in the area of Ottawa/Crow. Nest thermostat and Arlo cameras all came back on without issue. I have a battery backup for the Comcast router and the camera base station. It can generally run a day or so, but not 4-5 like this time.
I’ve been a service and repair plumber up here since 1979 and have never run into a frozen water heater in Big Trees that was in an enclosed sub-area. Cottage Springs and higher elevations can have extended low temps enough to cause problems.
It took 3 hours for our furnace to get the cabin back up to 45* and it’s been running 15 minutes every hour to keep it at 45*. bbbrrrr!
Our webcams came back up at north end of murriettas roost a little after 6. Now hoping the heater kicks on! This is the side deck taken last Thursday and tonight.
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Yahoo, power is back on at our cabin in the 3000 block of Shoshone!! Lucky for us, the webcams are both up and running, which means Comcast is working too.
Now to go up and see if there is any damage. Good luck everyone…Wow,
I do not like living off the grid!!!
it will take a while to get BigTreesTech all back up and working and a while longer to get through all the registration requests (including the ones from Trump’s home town in Russia)
Bear with us pleaseI am at Meko and my power and Comcast is up. Looks like it was a little before 3:00PM today. My cameras and weather station are back working.
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http://theplace.likescandy.com:32001/jpegpull.htmWeather station
https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=KCACAMPC2#history-Brian
I had Sandi from Sierra Sentry check on our place and it appears that the Comcast cable coming into the house has snapped. I just put a call into Comcast to schedule a repair.
too many missing terms to complete calculation, but 40 years of repairing split pipes; 3 days at 18 will split improperly drained lines. I would drain out hot and cold lines and ignore tank or maybe drain 25% off to allow expansion. If you are not local then stop by the hardware store for a supply of 1/2 and 3/4 elbows, several tanks for your torch, sleeves and couple of feet of pipe.
