Last Electrical AssKick

Feels like ten hours under waterheaters. 7 foot to base of shelf
measured from floor. 30 inch top is at the ceiling. Low and Fat Boy
mounted over a sink at 40gal.

Had leg cramps from up and down a ladder and shoulders were sore from
all the fitting tightening and moving tanks around on a small
platform.

Did a "controlled drop" on the old unit, 240V 2 elements, 125lbs new.
Probably 200lbs, easy, after all the years use. Plywood on the floor
and pulled the water heater over the shelf edge, w/out chipping the
concrete.

To hell with that. Replacement unit is a 120V unit that's 65lbs
packaged new. Harder look this time, I also got to learn everything
I'd done wrong with water heaters before; Even got to do the nipples
two, three times before I got the Teflon threaded right.

Grabbed some spare wire I'd saved, found an old screw-down contact
120V plug from like the 1940s, but none of it is hot to touch. Looks
adequate for new with no wear on the element and resistance changes.
20 amp service for sticking a KiloWatt on the element, reading
12.2AMPS and 1450Watts.

Also have an old and unused First Alert appliance timer, rudimentary
with the back of unit printed for 12.8W Tungsten and 1875W resistive
rated loads.

Sounds like a fast, wham-bham Tungsten thing load, whereas it'll do a
water heater, then that's also basically free.

On Tue, 10 Dec 2019 18:51:22 -0500, Flasherly
wrote:

Mistyped - should be 1280W for Tungsten load.