07-12-2008, 06:58 PM
Mark has a point, shelter your water tanks... We rented a house in HPP that had a electric water heater in an outside west facing closet.... we had forgotten that the breaker was 'OFF' on it for almost 3 days (sunny days) as every evening our showers were hot.... until a grey day... then we realized our error.... but we utilized that to our advantage on sunny streaks... breaker was switched & our west facing "solar closet" was put to work....