Electric Hot Water Heater Connected To Oil Burner

This is how i made a water heater from an old gas hot water service and converted it to run on waste oil instead of gas.

Electric hot water heater connected to oil burner.

This means less cost on oil for the year. You can have a heating coil inside your furnace an indirect fired water heater connected to your furnace or a stand alone oil fired hot water heater. There is of course a slight increase in your electric bill each month to run the hot water tank. You could also preheat the water going into the water heater but after a while the coil may get clogged up and your water pressure would be suffer.

To heat water that is used for showers sinks dishwashers and washing machines. The other primary option for using a heating system to produce hot water is to install an indirect or indirect fired water heater. The hot outlet from the tankless coil would be connected to the hot water side left of the water heater. Please see my other vids for burner construction and running waste oil burners.

Indirect fired water heaters connected to a boiler. Circulator pumps relays may be used if the water heater is connected to a continuous hot water loop plumbing system or in more rare cases where an oil fired water heater is being used as a building area heating device usually not code approved. Today we are going to talk about the latter. Then you have to power it of course.

When you disconnect your hot water from your oil boiler it reduces the need for the boiler to cycle and burn oil in the warmer months of year. The most common types of domestic hot water heaters. Tank style water heaters electric gas or oil tankless on demand or instantaneous water heaters. All water heaters have one job.

The indirect tank is usually plumbed to be a separate zone on the heating system.