Not sure if this goes in the "Off Topic" forum or "Workshops" forum. Our new-to-us home in NW Arkansas is about 16 years old. The water heater 30A electrical circuit goes from the subpanel, to a Paragon Model 4001 timer, to the water heater. We don't use the timer. I removed the timer's On/Off trip tabs.
I'm doing some workshop rewiring. If there's little or no benefit having the timer, I'd like to remove the timer - the tick-tick-ticking is annoying. Do those of you that have water heater timers realize financial benefit by having a timer? Or, no big deal, remove the timer? We occupy the house year round. The water heater is a temperature-controlled area.