JaseZA
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Potentially the temperatures on the thermostats are slightly different? Or the water flows more easily through one so it supplies more of the hot water and has to reheat more frequently?
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Geyser timer solution for solar
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Let me just give clarification as well.
There is a heat pump connected to this whole shebang. That does not work. It has not worked since I bought the place. So I switched it off and only run the geysers.
It could never get the temps high enough at the start, and now it just gives an error whenever I try to start it up.
I have RTFM and cannot get it to work. POS.
There is a heat pump connected to this whole shebang. That does not work. It has not worked since I bought the place. So I switched it off and only run the geysers.
It could never get the temps high enough at the start, and now it just gives an error whenever I try to start it up.
I have RTFM and cannot get it to work. POS.
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After I ran troubleshooting with Thermowise a couple of years ago, they gave me this schematic for the correct installation.
But as I said, there's basically no space to get the work done.
And if my installation is like below, I don't know.
But as I said, there's basically no space to get the work done.
And if my installation is like below, I don't know.
JaseZA
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Yup, they're in parallel according to that drawing. So water runs through both geysers at the same time. So yes, the easiest solution is to block flow in or out of one of them and turn off that element. Unfortunately means crawling around to find a tap or if there isn't one, adding it. But if you're getting a plumber to install a tap then it might be worth getting them changed to run in series rather. Or getting your heat pump replaced.