Eastman 60069 Water Heater Element, EASX1, 240V X 5500W Fold Back (Pack of 2)

The element went out in my 2021 camper and this arrived quickly and I was able to make the switch in minutes. The water is really, really hot.

Love these. I use them for off grid systems as a load dump.

DO NOY BUY THESE, I repeat. DO NOT BUY THESE. I ordered 6 of these elements as I do service work and look for good quality parts so I can stand behind my work. it took over 4 weeks after I received these before I could install one. after installing the first one I found out it blew out within 48 hrs of being installed. I was reluctant to try a second but did a few weeks later it also lasted less than 48 hrs. I now tried two of them in my own water heater and both it appears lasted only the initial heat then blew out. 4 out of the 6 lasted no time at all in two different water heaters. Both water heaters are working fine now with regular water heater elements in them. I will not be using the last two elements at all, I have no reason to believe either of them would work any different than the first 4. I am an experienced repair man who has been doing this for over 30 years I have never had an experience like this. Do not buy these.

Fit perfectly in 40 gallon heater. Water gets hot fast. What else do you need.

I used this to make a bucket boiler for cooking shrimp and crawfish boils in a 5 gallon bucket. To get it to fit through the 1" EMT coupling, I had to use a vise to slightly narrow the gap in the element at the end. The only challenge I ran into was that the supplied gasket deformed with even a little pressure applied and I couldn't keep it water tight. I removed the gasket and used a ton of teflon tape on the threads and got it water tight. After hooking up the lamp cord, I used hot melt glue to cover the wire and screws. Using a normal house 120v circuit and water that was 150 degrees out of the tap, it took about a half hour to achieve a solid boil with a half filled bucket.

Screws right in and simple to wire

I used 2 of these in my short 40 gallon 240 volt water heater that had 4500 watt elements. I recently installed a 5000 watt Inverter to use with solar and Lithium battery backup. I tried to figure out how to use the solar to heat my water heater and run several other things with only a 5000 watt inverter and 3 lithium batteries of about 15,000 watt hours. I replaced the 4500 watt with these 1500 watt, and its working just fine. They take longer to heat the water, but that's not been a problem--so far. I hope to add a high efficiency mini split heat pump that the inverter should be able to handle, since I only have 1500 watt elements now, and the other loads are not that great, being 3 small refrigerators, and a freezer, and some other items, such as lights and computer equipment.

I bought 2 of these and installed them in my water heater. About a week later we realized that we were running out of hot water relatively fast. After further troubleshooting I discovered that the lower element was not working. It was past the return period so I had to buy another. This one seems to be working well. Maybe I just got a bad one the first time.