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First time ever installing a water heater, or doing any plumbing... (lemmy.world)

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is interesting. Rheem used to be seen as a premium brand in Australia... I wonder if they've gone downhill.

Keep it on the "High Demand" mode so that it's always using electricity + heat pump to heat the water.

How much more electricity does this use?

[–] teejay 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I don't have historical data for the initial time period where I was trying to use this "normally" / using the default mode. However, here's a screen shot of last month's usage. Two adults in the house.