Bath using warm water does provide its own pleasure. Moreover, if winter comes, or you come home late at night after work. Warm water seemed to be a refresher for the body to re-excited. Therefore, the trend in home water heater installation began to spread. Maybe you’re one of them, who want the water heater in the bathroom in your home. Maybe sometimes you need to learn from the professional .
Before taking the decision to buy the water heater, you should know the types of water heaters, as a reference for you to so that later you can choose the most appropriate heating devices, both in terms of economy and functionality.
Water Heater Type
Basically, all the heaters have the same function, which heats the water. The main thing that distinguishes between different types of water heater is the source of heat generation energy is used to heat (increasing temperature) water. In the modern era today with the technology has grown by leaps and bounds, water heater increasingly practical to use and the price is becoming increasingly cheap. There is a wide range of heating tools that we can meet, among them:
Electric Water Heater
Electric Water Heater is a water heaters rely on electric energy to produce heat. Have the same basic principles such as electric irons, hair dryers and other electrical appliance that produces heat.
There are two kinds of electric water heater, with tank and without tank. Electric heater water tank has a price variation is determined by the size of the tank. The greater capacity of the tank, generally more expensive. The other is the type electric water heater without tank. The main drawback of this type of heater is the electric power consumption is quite large, about 2000 watts. But the market is also circulating water heater tank with electricity without power requirements of about 300 watts. However, it takes about 3-4 minutes to get hot water when using this tool.
Water heater without tank can be obtained with a relatively cheap price, around 400-600 thousand. One of the concerns in the use of electric water heaters are accidents due to electric shock. Actually, in all electric water heater safety is always included anti contacts MLCB (Main Line Circuit Breaker) point cut off electricity in the event of a short circuit or electric shock. However, cases of accident occurrence electrocuted in the bath with electric water heater is not unheard of.
There are so many brands available in the market for electric water heater, with a wide price range, but relatively affordable, such as electric water heater Ariston, Rinnai, daalderop electric water heater, water heater gainsborough, Rheem, paloma, wasser etc. Electric water heater is widely used in homes as a means to a hot bath, hotels, apartments, hospitals, villas, and others.
Portable Water Heater
Actually, the main electrical components in electric water heaters are expensive (with different variations of the price) is the same, the shape of the heating element. Only after in-packaging in such a way, added a water storage tank that is impermeable temperature with different levels of quality, as well as the added temperature sensors and automatic switches, these are expensive. If your primary concern is the price issue, the choice of using the Portable Water Heater quite cheap, price is only around 50 thousand – 70 thousand.
How to use was fairly easy. Prepare a bucket of water, dip the water heater and plug into the mains. Check if hot water is sufficient, if it is, unplug the power jack and can begin a bath. Note also the water heater is also available from the “energy-saving” the 350 Watt to 2,000 Watt that. The difference is the same as described previously, the greater the power, the electricity consumption of hot water (in equal amounts) will be quickly obtained.