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Clean
water filter monthly
Error
P1
Warranty does not cover failure due
to water problems
Symptom can include low water flow
Turn off tankless at remote control, Turn off water, release pressure
at faucet, remove and clean filter, or
replace filter.
Check for other filters on household water line.
Also check for crossflow and crossover:
Read typical maintenance pdf
Maintain water heater 2012/ pdf
Crossflow |
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How to drain tankless
How-to-drain-tankless.pdf |
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Tankless Warranty:
1 year labor, 6
year parts
Same
as ordinary tank-type heater
Rheem tankless warranty 2013
Paloma tankless warranty
Rheem tankless certificate of warranty 2008
Rheem tankless warranty 2006
Paloma limited warranty /
Limited warranty? No labor?
Wait a minute. Why doesn't warranty match the claims of 20-year
lifespan?
Oh that's right, Rheem is a special category of 'person' called a
Corporation, so they allowed to lie you up to get money, and
it's protected by law !!
Of course it's fraud if you do it to them. And they got laws
for that too.
Don't forget, you have no hot water while waiting for warranty claim.
Install tank-type heater for $600 from Lowes and get your money back. |
wear safety glasses |
Avoid warranty claims: install
tankless according to product manual
Make sure unit has adequate clean air supply ... install louvered door,
don't insulate doors, open windows and let the fresh scent of
deregulated business fill the house.
Avoid dust, lint, grease, damp and dirty environments.
Avoid installing any gas appliance in areas with bleach, pool
chemicals, process chemicals etc. Chemicals get sucked into air intake,
and will
corrode combustion parts and cause early demise of water
heater.
Vent must have condensate drain to prevent acidic water from dripping
back down the vent pipe
into the combustion chamber where it will eventually burn a hole
through the heat exchanger.
Tankless generally require dedicated vent and cannot be vented into a
shared vent with other gas appliance such as furnace, stove etc.
Having
a vent fan, such as bathroom vent fan etc, cannot be installed in same
room. A vent fan, whole house attic fan, or other vented appliances can
prevent proper venting of tankless (or any gas water heater).
Read the manual.
Protect your warranty rights,eliminate common error codes by following
advisories, maintenance, and installation.
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Venting:
Vertical and horizontal kits
& Condensate drain
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Tankless venting/ pdf
Bradford White venting .pdf |
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Venting
Black soot indicates
improper vent on any type gas appliance.
All gas appliances must be properly vented or the combustion by-product
can kill.
Evidence
of bad vent can be headache that goes away when you leave house. Also
lethargic, unresponsive people. Immediately remove people from home and
lay on side. Do not lay on back. Call emergency. Open windows. Call
plumber to check vent.
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Venting a tankless
Tankless venting
Read your manual for specifics
Use category III or schedule 40 pvc as shown in product manual.
Ordinary 3-4" galvanized vent pipe will NOT work.
Aluminum vent that is typically used for clothes dryer will NOT work
for any type gas appliance, unless you're under water financially and
intending to set an illiquid asset afire.
Venting is important for the higher heat from tankless, since larger
gas line supports larger burner and more-high-temperature toxic
by-product must be vented outdoors where it can assist nature.
Must have condensate drain so acidic combustion by-product does not
drip into heat exchanger and burn hole through expensive metal alloy
heat exchanger,,, of course you don't know if condensate drain works
until heat exchanger gets a hole a few years from now. Oh well, it's
only money.
If condensate drain works right, the acidic water goes into your floor
drain, drain lines and sewer connection ... which will deteriorate
materials not made of PVC or stainless. Do not use with cast iron
plumbing... any non-stainless metal will corrode with the acidic water
vapor.
Bradford White venting .pdf |
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Condensate
drain
Burning hydrocarbon produces combustion by-product including CO2 CO NO
SO and acidic water vapor. These respiratory poisons are puffing out of
every vent stack across
globe.
To
offset this reality, a bunch of special people call corporations are
puffing out a slogan that says 'natural gas is clean burning'
...
well, er uh,
except you can't breathe the clean-burning poison....
which is why there is a vent.
Tankless
burn more fuel per gallon of heated water than tank-type heater. This
is necessary to raise temperature as water quickly passes in a pipe.
This is why adequate incoming air supply is important and why tankless
require
larger vent pipe. The pipe must be made of material resistant
to acidic water vapor, such as PVC or stainless steel. The acidic water
vapor will
condense inside vent
pipe, and drip back into tankless unit.
To prevent acidic water from dripping down a burning a hole in
the heat exchanger, a
condensate drain is required.
The condensate drain redirects
acidic water away from the tankless and down into a nearby sewer drain,
where the acid will
destroy vulnerable types of pipe, before emptying into your drinking
water and oceans that
contain your food.
As a result, the 'clean burning poisons' end up in your body one way or
the other.
Buy:
High temperature Tankless condensate drain
Resources;
Rheem condensate drain /pdf
9 ways to save with water heater |
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Gas line
Connect tankless with at least 3/4" black pipe or equivalent. For
adequate gas supply, run 1" gas line to within 10' of tankless. Look at
specs in product manual. Why so much gas? Tankless consume
more gas to heat one gallon of water as
water rushes past in pipe, making it hard to believe endless hot water
will save money vrs
tank-type heater.
Do not use flexible gas
line. Flexible gas line works with ordinary tank-type water heater, but
tankless can shut down or issue error codes if gas flow is restricted
by flex line.
Error code 11 or C11 can be associated with undersized gas line, and
using flex line. To prevent problems,
replace flexible line with 3/4" black pipe. Do not use copper pipe
unless local codes allow, and then use only approved pipe
that is non-reactive with local gas supply.
Use yellow teflon tape, or approved sealant. Do not let excess teflon
tape or sealant enter pipe. Keep pipe connections clean.
Install sediment trap in gas line to keep water and other debris from
reaching gas valve inside tankless.
Sediment trap is usually a 3" long piece of pipe pointed downwards with
a cap on the end.
Check gas pressure. Make sure gas meter is large enough to support all
the gas appliances connected to meter. If tankless consumes
more gas than meter can supply, it will starve other appliances, and
cause shut down of oven,
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No
Service Manuals?
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NO service
manuals ?????
Gas appliances are dangerous, BUT... wait ... How do service
technicians know how to fix your
tankless if there are no service manuals? By
guessing?
How
do qualified service technicians exchange information with each other
and with customers if only certain people have repair
information? How do young people get enthusiastic about a field if full
information is not available?
Call Rheem before you buy and ask why they
refuse to
provide clear repair information to consumers.: 800-432-8373
How to de-lime tankless/ pdf
Read typical maintenance pdf
Maintain water heater 2012/ pdf
Whoops,
Liam sent 2008 Rheem Tankless service manual !!
Rheem Ruud tankless service manual 2008
Rheem tankless service manual/ possible 2011
He said he contacted Waiwela
General guideline: Probably won't apply to your
tankless unit |
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