Group: alt.energy.renewable
From: "daestrom"
Date: Friday, August 31, 2007 1:25 PM
Subject: Re: Recuperate some of the heat from a group of showers


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> >The $185 Mec-O-Matic (love that name :-) D75 uses about = 86
> >watts
>>moving 75 gpd, so it might use 74 moving ...
>
> Oops. It uses about 86 W moving 97 gpd, so it might use 57 moving .
>

Are you saying it uses 86 W * 24 hours =>2064 watt-hours to move those 96
gpd? So with a float switch it would run only /97*24= ~16 hours a day
and use just 1368 watt-hours a day?

Seems a bit much (about $ worth of electricity a day).

daestrom