New Water Heater & a LONG Cautionary Tale

Mark Lloyd posted for all of us...

Ya think?

Ok, you lost me on this one. What good is a water detector to tell me the power is out and the sump pump runs on electricity?

Let's you turn off the water to the water heater or furnace, whichever one is leaking.

Oooooooh ok, thanks!

In a modern house with multiple ones, it can take some time to locate which one is beeping. My beef is I've seen new ones that are AC wired with battery backup where the things start chirping in about a year. I don't understand that. You would think the battery would be there only if the AC is lost, and that the battery would last many years. Given the choice, I'd prefer ones that are just AC.

Great, now Russia and NK can hack your WH too.

Except when the power is out is when some people need it the most. They bring in the charcoal grill and kerosene heater to get by.

Yes, I'm willing to live with that, because it's my house and I'm not that stupid. But if it's a rental, etc, then I agree, there are plenty of stupid people out there.

If I remember correctly it was 1994 and the Southeast was hit with a huge ice storm and brutal temperatures and loss of power. In my case it was two weeks without power and though I had gas heat even then my furnace has an electronic ignition.

But I digress. A man was house sitting for a friend who was out of town. He was there to see that the ostrich eggs the friend was hatching were ok and he brought along his brand new puppy, too. He started the generator in the basement/garage and he, the puppy, and the eggs were found dead the next day due to carbon monoxide poisoning.

So Darwin takes out a few stupid lazy democrats. What's the problem?

you can fire up the generator to run the sump to tell the wi-fi HWH to beep ya to wake up from the CO caused by the generator and ..... actually a clean burning HWH should not be putting out any CO ... enough combustion air and blue flame, you have to work at it to get into trouble, everyone gets a Darwin participation trophy.

On Tue 18 Jul 2017 07:17:27a, Ed Pawlowski told us...

The new ones that they instaled in every rom of our co-op are AC with "permanent" rechargeable lithium-ion batteries. No chirping. They come around and check them once a year, which you're supposed to do anyway.

ItsJoanNotJoann posted for all of us...

It is a WATER detector, not a power detector, the sump pump most likely run s on electricity. Storm damage=a lot of water=power lost=water detector alert. Leaking pipe, water heater, flood, act of of God=water detector alert. Co uld be tied into home alarm if you wish.