30 yr old HP water heater?

[Ben H]

Ever seen one of these? Install date was 1987. Looks like an old heat pump Water heater. Didn't know they went back that far. Prototype model perhaps?

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[Trent Tarter]

Wow that's a sweet find, is it an early heat pump model.

[Ben H]

Looks to be. I was hoping one of you find gents could say you've seen one before. The story I got was the owner used to be some suit for a plumbing supply house. Might me some classified stuff from back in the day!

[mlparham]

Looks to be. I was hoping one of you find gents could say you've seen one before. The story I got was the owner used to be some suit for a plumbing supply house. Might me some classified stuff from back in the day!

It's just an old engineer having fun playing with his house.

[Chad Fabry]

In my area, extracting heat from conditioned space to heat domestic water is dumb 8 months a year.

Super cool vintage HW set-up though.

[Ben H]

Looks to be. I was hoping one of you find gents could say you've seen one before. The story I got was the owner used to be some suit for a plumbing supply house. Might me some classified stuff from back in the day!

It's just an old engineer having fun playing with his house.

The model number is SSV 82 HP4. Says on the data label it's a Heat Pump Water Heater.

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[Tom Raymond]

Why are all the valves closed?

[Ben H]

Dunno. I didn't touch it. The house had hot water though. Bypass for the HP feature perhaps. I was at the end of a 6 hour inspection that was not going well by the time I got to it. Seeing a nearly 30 yr old water heater was enough.

[Les]

Thirty is just getting broken in!

This one is at least 65yrs old.

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