Thanks for the information, pictures,results, and link to the ebay site on the A7. Mine arrived a week ago and two days later the water heater I was going to use started leaking on its own--I promise I hadn't touched it yet. Just got it all hooked up in its new spot with its new tank today and have warm'ish water so far. Will post some pictures and results soon.
Only unique thing that I did was to put the heat exchanger coils in the drain port since the tank I ended up using had the annode on the hot water port--instructions of removing the dip tube didn't make sense to me. With the elements out I could see the copper tubing forming a 'pile' in the bottom corner, which is where I wanted it. Only took a little coaxing at the start with a length of th 1/2" PVC pipe to keep it from walking up the side of the tank. After that, putting the copper tubing in went surprising well.
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