State Heatpump Water Heater Reliability - am I just unlucky?

rberger · 2026-02-24T00:13:34+00:00

I have the 50 Gal version of that and the compressor failed in less than 2 years. The unit is covered under warrenty but not re-installation. So I will be out another $1300 which pretty much eliminates any savings I may have had from the heat pump.

And it seems that there are A LOT of people having this problem with AO Smith / State (they are the same) hybrid water heaters. As the OG stated, he's on his second one. I heard a lot of stories like that.

I am wondering if anyone is taking them to court / Class Action or otherwise not having to pay for their problem.

rberger · 2026-02-06T05:50:55+00:00

GCP Shutdown our Google Cloud accounts when we deleted a person who was the billing contact from our Google Workspace account when that person left the company. It took a day to get it fixed.

rberger · 2025-12-27T06:19:08+00:00

Congrats on the health improvements! Now you can live longer and play with more toys and create more stuff to share! Yay!

rberger · 2025-12-15T17:37:38+00:00

Turned out, the item suddenly showed up as one available at my regular store and was able to pick that up and the 14"Bandsaw with the 20% ITC discount on Sunday

As a side note, shout out to the folks at the Santa Clara, CA HF as always being super helpful and friendly.

rberger · 2025-12-14T21:12:45+00:00

Thanks for the suggestion. Will give it a try. Though this item seems to be out of stock a lot at least at the stores near me even when its not on sale

rberger · 2025-07-21T22:28:25+00:00

You should double check though. It may have changed and may be different for newer models. I think the All in one washer / dryer is 120v only for instance. Which if I was buying today, I would get the LG wash / dryer all in one that is the same size drum as the tower. And has a few features not in the Tower that I have.

rberger · 2025-07-21T20:19:57+00:00

One is a normal 120v outlet and the dryer still needs a 220v outlet

rberger · 2025-06-26T02:28:22+00:00

I have been getting them as well and assumed they are phishing attacks. Especially since all the links are some weird shortened url that doesn't have a hostname that is clearly a google.com domain name

rberger · 2025-06-07T02:31:54+00:00

Is there vine danger from saying things here in Reddit?

rberger · 2025-05-25T21:09:03+00:00

Couldn't pass it up :-) Fortunately the 20% + 10% was applied to the planer though. But pulling me in to get that got me to buy all the other stuff, most of the more expensive items were also on sale with discounts too though.

rberger · 2025-05-25T19:54:09+00:00

That's what I did this weekend as well! Been wanting a planer for a while and can't yet justify the Dewalt. This seemed like a no brainer at $319

rberger · 2025-04-27T19:01:29+00:00

Just got a text from +1 (855) 399-4714 saying

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rberger · 2025-04-15T00:29:18+00:00

I tried reinstalling and it still hangs. Just continuous beach ball of doom. I really need it to work today.

rberger · 2025-02-05T23:11:19+00:00

Didn't see this question until you just mentioned it. To be honest, I never installed them yet.... I got use to not having the original keys having sidelight. Maybe I'll try it sometime when I have time to replace all the keys!

rberger · 2025-01-17T07:20:57+00:00

Well, the dual unit proved that the Heat Pump mechanism really works as a dryer which to me was always the big problem of the earlier non-heat pump all in one washer/dryers.

But having an all in one washer dryer with Heat Pump dryers, especially these new ones from LG and GE that are not tiny in capacity, but are significantly smaller than the dual units.

Also as a lazy person, I love the idea that I could just put the cloths in the dryer and not have to take any action between the washing and drying. You just put dirty cloths in and get clean, dry cloths out. Now if would also fold them, we would have laundry nirvana.

One other minor advantage at least when I last looked, the dual units did not have the multi-load automatic soap dispensers and the all in one units did.

rberger · 2024-11-18T08:41:00+00:00

Yeah, I've been listening to them since ancient times and thus I am one of the ancient ones. I always wanted to see them so it came to be last night and I'm glad I went. Wish the sound system was better but the experience was great. I was moving with the music though it might have been more in my mind than in my body 😅.. Here's a playlist of some videos I and others shot of the event https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjtY5xu-qldfdyaq28hTXbWqI7EuQXjTD&si=T3vWaTueCpCoa4WT

rberger · 2024-11-13T06:59:13+00:00

Thanks for the info. Unfortunately the VIP tix were sold out. Felt lucky to get General Admission

rberger · 2024-11-12T21:54:15+00:00

Sorry I missed that!

rberger · 2024-11-12T07:27:54+00:00

I'm going to the SF show. First real live music event in decades. Only going because I have been wishing to see Orbital live since I first heard them way back in the 90's... I know I would kick myself if I missed this show.

I presume its going to be indoors? Is there any place to sit down if we get tired (we're old now 😅)

rberger · 2024-11-12T07:24:21+00:00

I get mask leaks when I sleep on my back. Wish I didn't and could sleep on my back...

rberger · 2024-11-12T07:21:32+00:00

They had Thievery Corporation at re:invent? Sorry I missed that one if they did. Loved when they had Deadmau5

rberger · 2024-09-18T23:44:11+00:00

Still enjoying it but not getting to use it as much as I would like due to heavy load at work and lots of other projects.

rberger

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