- Industry: Household appliances
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Also known as stacking, or build-up, it is the ability of hot water to form layers of different temperatures in the tank.
Industry:Household appliances
A small electric generator. Electron flow between the hot junction (where pilot flame envelopes the thermocouple) and the cold junction (where the capillary meets the bottom of the thermocouple) creates millivoltage.
Industry:Household appliances
An apparatus that consists of a number of thermocouples combined to multiply the effect and is used for generating electric current.
Industry:Household appliances
A device which automatically maintains a predetermined temperature in an electric water heater. Most thermostats are equipped with a safety shut-off.
Industry:Household appliances
A fluid flow in which the velocity at a given point varies erratically in magnitude and direction.
Industry:Household appliances
The percentage of hot water that can be drawn from a tank before the temperature drops to a point that is no longer considered hot.
Industry:Household appliances
Recommended for installation on all side (bottom) cold inlet heaters; prevents internal vacuum conditions that could drain a system by back siphonage, eliminates burned out electric elements and collapsed tanks.
Industry:Household appliances
Materials used for evacuating vent gases from a dwelling.
Industry:Household appliances
A channel through which water can flow; connects water heater to inlet & outlet lines.
Industry:Household appliances
