Hot water recirculator

[Les]

After the pump has run to supply "instant" hot water at your sink, the cold faucet at that sink would then run hot water until the water line was emptied of the hot water in the loop.

[FYI]

This can occur when a recirculator's temperature sensor is cheap or is placed in an inefficient manner. Some recirculators have clamp-on temperature sensors. They are clamped on to the outside of the pipe to measure temperature. This is very inefficient and requires the pipe to also be heated before the temperature sensor measures it.

Additionally, if a recirculators pump moves water too quickly, it may result in too much hot water being placed into the cold water line before the system has time to react. Most cases of homeowners who've complained that they now have lost their cold water are a result of a recirculator NOT having two-way checkvalve crossover engineering.

When the hot water faucet is opened, it causes the hot water lines pressure to drop quickly, without a checkvalve in place, the cold water line could bleed over cold water into the hot water line and out the faucet tap. Thereby, reducing the heated waters temperature.. Engineers realized this and most have corrected this from happening. On the other hand, if the cold line faucet is opened then the hot water lines pressure can bleed into the cold line. This is where most bleedover occurs causing the loss of cold water comfort in the home.

RedyTemp uses two way bleedover prevention. Utilizing a solenoid valve which only opens when recirculator pump operates. Additionally, we utilize a stainless steel 3" scientific temperature probe which is placed strategically at the hot water entry point into the manifold so that it runs over the probe as it enters the manifold. Resulting in highly efficient temperature sensing / management.

Most would agree that the KEY to real savings is to reduce the amount of very cold city water that enters into a homes water heater, because it demands the highest amount of therms to heat that water. A properly tuned / optimized recirculation system that delivers hot water at a temperature most near the home owners desired temperature will have the greatest reduction in TIME SPENT WAITING for hot water....during this TIME SPENT WAITING is when the city is filling your water heater with the COLDEST most expensive to heat water into your water heater.

Either reduce the time you spend waiting for hot water...or reduce the amount of hot water you use. That's were the savings can come from.

RedyTemp let's the home owner OPTIMIZE their hot water system by adjusting the temperature and delivery/readiness that best fits their lifestyle. If you get more then 2 seconds of warmish water from the faucet where the RedyTemp is installed, simply turn the temperature down just a hair.

OPTIMIZE the temperature setting OPTIMIZE the schedule / delivery / readiness results in optimized comfort AND savings.

most common response on our registration cards are;

Now that they've tried it...they can't live without it.

[FYI]

An efficient / optimized hot water recirculator would have stopped pumping before hot water entered the cold water line portion of the loop.