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Home Wind And Solar Power
Adding an additional power source to your home or even replacing a traditional gas or electric system with solar panels or wind turbines is an alternative for many homeowners today.
Installing Solar or Wind power units for your home can not only help save you dollars on your heating and electric bills, but help save the planet. As more and more people use greener solutions for energy production in the household, it is creating a more sustainable ecology for the world.
One of the options that many people are looking into is building your own windmill or wind power system. The DIY or do it yourself models have been big sellers and are quite popular, as they provide the means to getting your own home wind power but also can save on the cost significantly as well.
The range of the cost varies greatly and can be anywhere from several hundred dollars to over $20,000 for a particular system, depending on your needs.
It all depends on how much energy you are using and where your home is and the environment of your area in particular. In a very urban and crowded area it will not be as effective as it would in a rural and more open environment as the city and urban areas tend to limit the amount of energy that can be created by such windmill units.
Very rarely, if ever, do these home wind turbines generate enough power to eliminate the need for gas and oil, but they can reduce your bills and also lower your carbon footprint significantly, which is important to many as well as saving money.
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i know this may sound dumb but the first thing to always check first is the breaker or fuse.
another thing to check, (its happend at my house) is there anything else in the house that uses hot water that is running non stop and emptied the tank,(again this happend to me when washing machine kept running hot water),
if this doesn’t fix it, it is quite possible that your heating element went out. there are two elements, upper and lower.
these are not hard to change out and can be bought at most hardware stores that carry water heaters.
just remember to kill the power first.
enis32 is right.
If you are going to diy make sure the power is off and have a multi-meter or ohm meter. You can check the heating elements with an ohm meter with the power off.
Put one lead of the ohm meter to one side of the the heating element and the other lead to the other. You should get a very low reading .3 to 1.9 if you get nothing the element is dead. Do the same to the second element if there is one. They are behind a panel on the water heater usually held on with 1 or 2 screws.
Be careful.