Electric Hot Water Heater Connected To Oil Burner

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

Electric hot water heater connected to oil burner.

This is a separate insulated water tank that is heated using hot water from the gas or oil fired boiler. To heat water that is used for showers sinks dishwashers and washing machines. This means less cost on oil for the year. Then you have to power it of course.

Tank style water heaters electric gas or oil tankless on demand or instantaneous water heaters. Please see my other vids for burner construction and running waste oil burners. There are various ways to heat domestic hot water with oil. 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.

Today we are going to talk about the latter. Indirect fired water heaters connected to a boiler. 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. The other primary option for using a heating system to produce hot water is to install an indirect or indirect fired water heater.

There is of course a slight increase in your electric bill each month to run the hot water tank. They are normally 220 volts. The most common types of domestic hot water heaters. 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.

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.