Tankless Water Heater Wires Installation

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Tankless water heater wires installation.

Wires to the tankless water heater reviewing the electrical question. Community answer you will probably need 220 volt service as with an electric dryer with at least 60 amps. Subscribe to this old house. Tie in new hot and cold water lines to the existing water lines with copper pipe and run the lines to the new water.

If you need additional space in the panel for the circuit breaker then a quad circuit breaker may be allowed as specified by the make and model of the panel. This will also make it easy to apply pipe insulation. A tankless water heater will require a dedicated circuit as specified by the installation manual of the unit that has been selected. I bought an ecosmart 18 tankless water heater.

This video is an instructional video that gives you insight how to install tankless. This electrical wiring project is about how to connect the wires from the circuit breakers to a ecosmart 18 tankless water heater. Clean the pipes and connectors before soldering to remove.