hurleyjd
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Any one using one of the tankless water heaters. Prefer electric. Pros and cons please and what brand if any.
I priced one a few years ago . The units are reasonable. Its the wire requirement that turned me off iirc you have to have 4awg wirehurleyjd":17byay9p said:Any one using one of the tankless water heaters. Prefer electric. Pros and cons please and what brand if any.
hurleyjd":19y7ki4i said:Propane is not an option was more interested in the electric.
greybeard":1vvtod0t said:hurleyjd":1vvtod0t said:Propane is not an option was more interested in the electric.
Good idea! But is that legal to wash at such a low temperature there?pdfangus":1ipnv1sb said:the best hot water heater I have seen on a dairy was somewhere up in Pennsylvania years ago. The guy had a small boiler...he had it valved so that he could run hot water from the boiler through the plate cooler on the water side, during the wash cycle....he could wash all day at 145 degrees.
for dairys in Michigan you will get fined if it's under 160pdfangus":2g6ly2jw said:back in those days....late nineties....I was a Diversey territory manager.....we struggled mightily with having enough hot water to keep systems clean....we had all the heaters cranked up as high as they would go but the wash water cooled off so quickly it was problematic....
we were actually ecstatic that we had a system that could maintain 145...and that system stayed clean....
ez14.":29xrboiw said:for dairys in Michigan you will get fined if it's under 160pdfangus":29xrboiw said:back in those days....late nineties....I was a Diversey territory manager.....we struggled mightily with having enough hot water to keep systems clean....we had all the heaters cranked up as high as they would go but the wash water cooled off so quickly it was problematic....
we were actually ecstatic that we had a system that could maintain 145...and that system stayed clean....
We got a hot water heater that heats the water to 180 degrees and have it very close to the wash system which is in a heated part of the barn (not real warm but always above freezing) I don't know how other farms do itpdfangus":39y5w0oe said:ez14.":39y5w0oe said:for dairys in Michigan you will get fined if it's under 160pdfangus":39y5w0oe said:back in those days....late nineties....I was a Diversey territory manager.....we struggled mightily with having enough hot water to keep systems clean....we had all the heaters cranked up as high as they would go but the wash water cooled off so quickly it was problematic....
we were actually ecstatic that we had a system that could maintain 145...and that system stayed clean....
I would be interested to know how producers keep the wash water that hot especially in a cold climate.
most good dairy cleaners will work very well at 145.....many will struggle when the dump temp sinks below 110.
in food plants and commercial facilities like receiving stations steam can be added to the wash water to keep it hot but in those days very few dairy farms had steam.