Baumgrenze
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Our house is a single story on cement slab post-and-beam built in 1955. The copper water lines are in/or under the slab floor, and emerge through holes in the wall sill for connection.
My venerable UP10 16B5/TLC (P/N 96433895) seems to have finally died. I simply ran it on a 20" on/20" off cycle during the hours we thought we wanted hot water 'on demand' in a very remote master bathroom. We have a dedicated, insulated return
I'm having trouble installing a replacement.
I picked up the current pump, UP 10-16 PM, which uses temperature to decide when to run rather than a timer. It came with a 'pictographic' installation manual. I must be 'image challenged' but what I am too do with what I believe is the 'detector' that tells the pump when to run. The drawing on page 12 of the manual seems not to account for my dedicated return line.
Should the detector really be on the water line that leaves the top of the water heater? I'd be more inclined to put it near the pump, which returns water to the water heater. If water at that point in the loop is hot, I know I will have hot water in the master bath.
Page 13 of the manual shows the power cord emerging towards the floor and seems to say, you can only run the detector cable off horizontally; there is a red X on a pictograph with the cable going towards the floor.
Does this 'detector' system really work? Could I install a clock timer on the power and set the pump to 'run 100% during the hours I want service (like in the past.) I'm pretty sure that I'd need to be careful that the timer could take the inductive load presented by the pump motor, 1/25th HP.
Has anyone else had experience with an installation like mine?
thanks
baumgrenze
My venerable UP10 16B5/TLC (P/N 96433895) seems to have finally died. I simply ran it on a 20" on/20" off cycle during the hours we thought we wanted hot water 'on demand' in a very remote master bathroom. We have a dedicated, insulated return
I'm having trouble installing a replacement.
I picked up the current pump, UP 10-16 PM, which uses temperature to decide when to run rather than a timer. It came with a 'pictographic' installation manual. I must be 'image challenged' but what I am too do with what I believe is the 'detector' that tells the pump when to run. The drawing on page 12 of the manual seems not to account for my dedicated return line.
Should the detector really be on the water line that leaves the top of the water heater? I'd be more inclined to put it near the pump, which returns water to the water heater. If water at that point in the loop is hot, I know I will have hot water in the master bath.
Page 13 of the manual shows the power cord emerging towards the floor and seems to say, you can only run the detector cable off horizontally; there is a red X on a pictograph with the cable going towards the floor.
Does this 'detector' system really work? Could I install a clock timer on the power and set the pump to 'run 100% during the hours I want service (like in the past.) I'm pretty sure that I'd need to be careful that the timer could take the inductive load presented by the pump motor, 1/25th HP.
Has anyone else had experience with an installation like mine?
thanks
baumgrenze