Thread Number: 69633
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Rinnai gas wall heaters |
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Post# 925371 , Reply# 1   3/6/2017 at 21:31 (2,579 days old) by panthera (Rocky Mountains)   |   | |
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May have electronics which reset to 'off' when there is a power interruption. Don't know if that's the case with these - should be easy to find out. If it is, then of course you couldn't depend on them to prevent pipes freezing in a house which is empty. Otherwise, I've only heard good things about them. Seem to be popular in the northern part of our state. |
Post# 925379 , Reply# 2   3/6/2017 at 21:45 (2,579 days old) by wayupnorth (On a lake between Bangor and Bar Harbor, Maine)   |   | |
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Those Rinnai heaters work fine as as long as you have power. Even with a generator they have to be reset in those few minutes no power to generator. Their electronic controls are so sensitive with no battery backup stops and beeps when power comes back and then it has to be reset again. Panthera is right.
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Post# 925380 , Reply# 3   3/6/2017 at 21:46 (2,579 days old) by Jmm63 (Denville, NJ)   |   | |
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I have a very good friend that retired to his parents "summer home" in northern New Hampshire. It was built with all electric everything since they only used it 8 months out of the year and closed it for the winter. After he lived there for a couple of years and got tired of having $1000 a month electric bills in the winter, he put in 3 Rinnai LP direct vent heaters, I guess that was about 5 years ago. He had one put in the living room on the main floor, one put in the family room lower level, and small one put in the attached garage (all the utilities are in there) I was VERY impressed by them. Very quiet and the electronic controls were very accurate. And really they heated the whole house, with the exception of still using the electric baseboards in the bathrooms and bedroom. They run off a 300 lb propane tank in the back of the house. They certainly have paid for themselves.
I say go for it, you won't be dissapointed. |