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On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 20:08:40 -0500,
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On Sat, 06 Jan 2018 19:05:16 -0500, wrote:

If I ever have to do this again I think I would wire my elements in
series and let it just loaf along at ~1.1 KW until the tank was hot.

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That will work as long as Ohm's law does not get overturned in the
courts. Of course if your elements are in parallell, you could just
lift a wire to one of them as a temporary expedient.

Water heaters just use one at a time. The top stat keep the top
element going until it makes the stat (the "quick recovery" thing)
then it switches to the bottom ones to heat the rest of the tank.