We moved into a new construction home a few months ago and have two electric water heaters setup as a series in the basement. Since its just me and my wife, we don't' use need both the heaters so I turned off the upstream heater and the downstream heater has been satisfying our demand just fine. I have a few questions regarding this setup.
1. Is there a downside to leaving the upstream heater off as far as damage to the heater or any other issues?
2. I want to setup a fail safe so is there a way to set the system where if the downstream heater fails, I can simply switch to the upstream? I want to do this w/out switching to the parallel configuration. What would the approximate costs be?
Picture of the heaters is attached.
Edit: After thinking about this, I guess the only way to do what I want is to convert to a parallel system. I'm wondering how much it costs to convert to a parallel setup.
1. Is there a downside to leaving the upstream heater off as far as damage to the heater or any other issues?
2. I want to setup a fail safe so is there a way to set the system where if the downstream heater fails, I can simply switch to the upstream? I want to do this w/out switching to the parallel configuration. What would the approximate costs be?
Picture of the heaters is attached.
Edit: After thinking about this, I guess the only way to do what I want is to convert to a parallel system. I'm wondering how much it costs to convert to a parallel setup.
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