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| Thread ID: 93661 | 2008-09-26 08:10:00 | HW cylinder temperature. | martynz (5445) | PC World Chat |
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| 708009 | 2008-09-26 08:10:00 | I'm installing a wetback in my kitchen with the HW cylinder in the roofspace over the bathroom. It would be useful to be able to know the temp. of the HW without climbing up into the roofspace or running the hot tap over a thermometer. Anyone know of a suitable system using a sensor in the thermometer pocket in the cylinder with the temp. readout being wired to a meter on the kitchen wall. Martynz |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 708010 | 2008-09-26 08:40:00 | My experiance with a wet back is that you will not need a temprature gauge as the wetback will quickly take the water temp to 100C and you will hear the water boiling and bubbling in the HW cylinder. | tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 708011 | 2008-09-26 09:34:00 | solar water co's will have the proper ones but a DSE etc remote temp guage will do, just fit the sensor on the hot water pipe or near the element where there is no insulation. if your installing the weback yourself just watch the red tape, you will need a water temp mixer valve (sorry can't remeber the right name) so it regualtes outlet temp to a safe temp (more PC bull :( ) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 708012 | 2008-09-26 16:09:00 | I'm installing a wetback in my kitchen with the HW cylinder in the roofspace over the bathroom. It would be useful to be able to know the temp. of the HW without climbing up into the roofspace or running the hot tap over a thermometer. Anyone know of a suitable system using a sensor in the thermometer pocket in the cylinder with the temp. readout being wired to a meter on the kitchen wall. Martynz If you aquire a solar hot water system you will get all that. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 708013 | 2008-09-26 20:29:00 | My experiance with a wet back is that you will not need a temprature gauge as the wetback will quickly take the water temp to 100C and you will hear the water boiling and bubbling in the HW cylinder. Yep. And the fireplace won't give out so much heat in the room and the hot water will be spewing out the overflow on the roof all the time. |
pctek (84) | ||
| 708014 | 2008-09-28 19:37:00 | Thanks for the info. everybody....except for the rants about pc bull. Martynz |
martynz (5445) | ||
| 708015 | 2008-09-29 08:13:00 | Yep. And the fireplace won't give out so much heat in the room and the hot water will be spewing out the overflow on the roof all the time. I had the overflow routed into the header tank so the water did not spew onto the roof. |
tutaenui (1724) | ||
| 708016 | 2008-09-30 07:36:00 | I had the overflow routed into the header tank so the water did not spew onto the roof. Very sensible idea and if the shower has been plumbed in properly it means you don't use so much hot water. |
mikebartnz (21) | ||
| 708017 | 2008-09-30 08:13:00 | I had the overflow routed into the header tank so the water did not spew onto the roof. does the header tank feed the hot water cylinder ? it would have to be a big header tank otherwise it will just heat up to hot water temp. for houses with outside water tanks an overflow on the roof is ok as the hot water simply flows back to the main tank which is big enough to handle the hot water. the problem we have is the pump pressure is enough to keep the valve open so it constantly pumps water out the overflow. valve won't reset till pump is turned off. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 708018 | 2008-09-30 23:34:00 | We have a DSE in/out temp guage, with the Out temp sensor taped to the cylinder outlet as close as possible to the cylinder. Just dont make the mistake some have of running a cylinder on it's side, for lack of headspace. It doesnt work well... |
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