Tankless water heaters - 09/01/05 01:00 AM
I have a customer requesting a price to hook up a tankless water heater. I know a service upgrade would be involved so I told him to get me the specs on the unit before I submitted a bid.
He called back and said the unit is 28.5 KW ! At first I thought he was mistaken on the load but after doing some searching I found that they actually draw that much for a whole house unit.
My question is, I don't see where the code actually adresses this type of unit, so what is the normal way to figure this into your service feeder calc ?
I see if I use the optional method I can put it in as the water heater load but would hardly make sense since it is almost 3 times larger than the central heat of the next step in 220.82 (c)
Any ideas or suggestions from people who have installed these would really help
He called back and said the unit is 28.5 KW ! At first I thought he was mistaken on the load but after doing some searching I found that they actually draw that much for a whole house unit.
My question is, I don't see where the code actually adresses this type of unit, so what is the normal way to figure this into your service feeder calc ?
I see if I use the optional method I can put it in as the water heater load but would hardly make sense since it is almost 3 times larger than the central heat of the next step in 220.82 (c)
Any ideas or suggestions from people who have installed these would really help