Woohoo! I have hot water again!

Now powered (mostly) by the sun since it's an electric heater and I have lots of solar panels. 🙂

(It'd be helpful if the sun came out, though.... just sayin...)

@bigzaphod Did you get anything fancy like those heat pump water heaters? We have a hybrid one.
@a no just normal electric this time. The heat pump ones cost too much extra still, imo.
@bigzaphod There was some rebate program going on when we bought ours which made it worth it, but I otherwise agree. We’ve also had terrible reliability issues with ours; the manufacturer replaced it once, but the replacement had the same problem, just delayed by a few months, and of course now it’s out of warranty.
@a oh geez. I've heard a lot of people complain about the heat pump making their basement/room super cold too. Seems like these are solvable things... but... maybe they just don't care enough to fix them yet.
@bigzaphod The cooling has been good for us. It it wasn’t for the reliability issue I’d be happy with it.