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Oh, an electric boiler, that's the first I've ever heard of that. Yeah, I'd be a little concerned on that. That's better be copper. I know why they do it. They do it to save money, you know, with the aluminum. In the electrical industry, you know, they do it. But, you know, when they do stupid things where you're just using one foot, maybe 18 inches of aluminum wire, compared to copper wire, it could cause the whole house to burn down. Under a writer's lavatory, those are the people who accept this. Those are the ones I think are being paid off or something. Because anybody with any common sense would know that's not a good decision to use that sort of stuff. Okay, you know, I've done places where it's, you know, aluminum up to the cutoff beside the boiler and then copper from the cutoff over. Anytime possible, I've made my boss's place as a living with copper. Now, copper, aluminum is easier to work with. It bends easier. I understand why the guys want to run it. But you've got to run bigger gauge for the same current. It's just easier to work with copper. You're safer. But yeah, electric boilers, man. We put them into houses. The biggest one we put into houses for a small house, up to, God, we had them in single 100 amp breakers that have had duals where each side of elements is pulling 80. But commercial, dude, we did boilers up to 600 volts. And those things were just monsters and had scary as crap to work on when they fire up. You'd swear they were going to vibrate right off the floor.