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    Posted: 15 Aug 2019 at 11:23am
Originally posted by GlueGuy

Originally posted by Kenlw

I assume keeping the fresh water tank filled will satisfy the hot water tank.
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Not exactly. You do need to get the water into the hot water tank. So if your source is the FWT, then run the pump, and open the kitchen faucet until it stops sputtering. Then you know you have water in the water heater. Alternatively, of you are hooked up to a fresh water source, just run the kitchen hot water faucet until the sputtering stops.


Actually.. No.

If the WH is in bypass.. and empty, and you pressurize the system in either manner, just because the water flows freely from the hot tap, does not mean the WH has any water in it.

To insure the WH has water in it, pressurize the system, and open the emergency blow valve on the WH. If the WH is in bypass mode, there will be no pressure or flow. If there IS pressure at that valve, then you KNOW the WH has water in it.

Many a WH element dies every spring because of this misunderstanding.


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Forgot about the bypass. We live in a zone where we actually have never needed the bypass.
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Originally posted by GlueGuy

Forgot about the bypass. We live in a zone where we actually have never needed the bypass.


Yeah, my dad lives just north of Sacramento.. in 50 years he has never winterized.. LOL
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