[mgba_78]

Right i have took the plunge and ordered a water heater.

Whilst i am waiting for it to be delivered i just need to check best way of setting up for 2 hose reels. Do I :-

Go from water tank to heater, from heater have a Y connector and go to each pump individually

or have it after the pumps but i cant work out how i plumb in keeping 2 pumps and controllers?

As we run 2 pumps with 2 controllers which is confusing me on how to set it up


Any help appreciated

Ta
Andy

[bobplum]

i dont have one but i thought it would be
tank-pump(1)-heater-y piece-reels

i dont think the heater as a built in pump so you need your pump to pump the water to the heater and then split the hot water in to two and send to the reels

[mgba_78]

Cheers, that makes sense

Anyone else that has actually done it??

[MNWC]

Tank-pump-heater-twoway splitter-hosereels

[Scrimble]

your better off with 2 heaters instead of bodging it with 1

[Lee GLS]

your better off with 2 heaters instead of bodging it with 1

We use one heater 1 pump and 2 reels and it works perfectly.

[steeley]

Dont think you can split the water from one pump to two reels, tried this once and one had an okish flow rate and other was really bad id say if you have two pumps installed and two reels get two heaters.

[paul13]

What size of pump is best?

[Lee GLS]

Dont think you can split the water from one pump to two reels, tried this once and one had an okish flow rate and other was really bad id say if you have two pumps installed and two reels get two heaters.

like i have already said we are running 2 reels with 1 pump and it isnt even of full, and there is plenty of flow, both reels have the same flow rate, there is no need for 2 pumps if you want to run a hot water system.

[steven ainger]

Dont you get a really high flow of water Lee from 1 pole when the other user stops their flow ??
Or do you have a bypass

[Mist A Bit]

i do the same as lee gls and it does work fine , yes if one user is turned off his flow the other user will get a greater flow but its something you get used to. doesnt cause a problem imo.
however with 2 pumps and 2 controllers set up then two heaters would be nessesery.
 The only other way is on pump one fit a y piece after the heater and run half of the flow back into the tank which would gradually warm the water that pump 2 with the cold feed would use.

[Lee GLS]

Dont you get a really high flow of water Lee from 1 pole when the other user stops their flow ??
Or do you have a bypass

if one pole is stopped for more than 20-30 secs you do, but when you have 2 people working then both poles are on for pretty much the whole house, so it isnt an issue, oh and no bypass

[Lee GLS]

there was a guy that used 2 pumps and 1 heater, but the pumps went after the heater, so it had to draw the water through the heater, but unless is is set up really well, you will run the risk of airlocks in the system.

[Mist A Bit]

there was a guy that used 2 pumps and 1 heater, but the pumps went after the heater, so it had to draw the water through the heater, but unless is is set up really well, you will run the risk of airlocks in the system.

i can imagine that would be a nightmare with airlocks