Some of you have a power vent water heater in your home.
You will notice that the venting is white plastic, with a motor attached to the top of the unit. It's important to know that the correct replacements come as a complete unit. It's not something that you can buy in parts.
An atmospheric tank can't use the old fan system and plastic piping from before. Very dangerous.
Here is a job I ran into, homeowner replaced with water streaming from an old expansion tank that had rusted through.
They had taken the old fan system, with dangling wires and screwed it on the top.
The expansion tank was installed on the hot side. should have been on the cold incoming water.
There was no place for the wires on the fan system to connect on the replacement.
Wrong pump for the wrong tank, wrong brand and wrong decade.
The expansion tank had rusted through, and was spraying water, drenching the new tank.
I removed the homeowners tank and replaced with a Power Vent model.
When installed and connected up, it's plugged in and self lights.
The fan knows when to come on and go off. It saves about $100 a year over an atmospheric heater using propane, which this was.
That winds up buying the new tank in time.
New Power Vent
Rheem PROG50-42P-RH67-PV, Propane
Rheem PROG50-42N-RH67-PV, Natural Gas
New expansion tank
You will notice that the venting is white plastic, with a motor attached to the top of the unit. It's important to know that the correct replacements come as a complete unit. It's not something that you can buy in parts.
An atmospheric tank can't use the old fan system and plastic piping from before. Very dangerous.
Here is a job I ran into, homeowner replaced with water streaming from an old expansion tank that had rusted through.
They had taken the old fan system, with dangling wires and screwed it on the top.
The expansion tank was installed on the hot side. should have been on the cold incoming water.
There was no place for the wires on the fan system to connect on the replacement.
Wrong pump for the wrong tank, wrong brand and wrong decade.
The expansion tank had rusted through, and was spraying water, drenching the new tank.
I removed the homeowners tank and replaced with a Power Vent model.
When installed and connected up, it's plugged in and self lights.
The fan knows when to come on and go off. It saves about $100 a year over an atmospheric heater using propane, which this was.
That winds up buying the new tank in time.
New Power Vent
Rheem PROG50-42P-RH67-PV, Propane
Rheem PROG50-42N-RH67-PV, Natural Gas
New expansion tank
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