Is ithere any advantage to useing more than 1 valve in the system?
495216
It depends. I use 2 because of the layout of the bathrooms. Put one valve at the farthest point from water heater and see how it works at other locations. You'll know if you need others
495217
One uses the valve at the faucet furthest away from the water heater. Each faucet or outlet along the line leading up to that point should have improved hot water. If there are significant side "branches" in the water supply "tree" serving the house, then using a valve at the terminus of each branch should improve heat to those areas as well.
495218
If you have a really spread out house yes. You basically will put the valve at the furtherest point and then hot water will be available to all the points between.
495219
Depends on what kind of house. We have multiple valves under sinks that are far down the line from the hot water heater, but we have a two-story house with the hot water heater in the central core. If you have a ranch house, it's probably unnecessary to have more than one valve.
495220
It certainly wouldn't hurt. I would think it might be a good idea if you have a ranch style home with faucets at opposite ends of the house. I would suggest using just the one valve initially. You could always add another. All my installs have only required one valve.
495221
Not sure why or how you would install more than one valve for this system. Read the instruction manual to understand function of the valve.
495222
There can be. The main reasons for the valves is to bring heated water to the furthestmost point of use in a system. If your plumbing system has two or more branches of hot water plumbing that are long runs then yes it could be an advantage so that hot water would be at each end of a branch. I hope that answere your question
495223
if you want instant hot water you need a valve at every sink. Our house has about a 60' run. I only installed 1 valve at the farthest point. The other sinks before it get hot pretty quick now but not as fast as the valved one.
627505
You can't use both so just install one at a time and choose whichever seems better to you. HTH
547158
Yes you do one for each valve you have now easy to install and works great I only have one on my black tank I will get 2 more next summer and do my other 2 tanks
1923952
Hi, new guy! One is dedicated intake, one is dedicated output. It makes the entire closed system more efficient. Google AC one hose vs two hose, and you will likely get more educated answers, but I hope mine helps. Two is well worth the money, over time.
695963
You can do one at a time. There is a valve selector so you can do left or right or both at once. My wife loves it and worth the money.
1678232
The people who make these valves are very nice and helpful.... check their web site for your answer... if its not on their web site drop them an email and they'll get back to you.... I have at least 10 vehicles on this product and love them... I sorry I can't give a more specific answer...
1181029
Good quetion! The only way I can think to do that takes away some of the advantage of an automated system. That would be to program days and watering times for the valves as desired, leave the system off and then turn on when needed and use the "water all zones one time (or only one zone) button", turning system off again when done. I know that's not an ideal scenario, but I think it's all the system will allow since it's based on weekly rather than monthly programing intervals.
1976391
Yes, you can. The flow is split between the two spouts so the flow is weaker, but you can use both.
1129686
Thats personal preference. I think its easier to keep all three in but it doesnt change anything if you only put two.
1649735
Yes, they can both be on at the same time. The only difference is that each hose will have a little less pressure than having only one hose on.
57301
It is possible to get them to work at the same time but only by very careful adjustment with the selection valve, the water flow from each will be low. I don't think it was designed to work that way.
361701
Yes. However, the water pressure is compromised in both zones when you do this. I run mine one right after the other and it works great!
145251
Mine came with 2 check valves. One for each centrifugal pump. Otherwise with only a single pump running it would be back flowing out the other pump. A third check valve in the line past these can't hurt but shouldn't be necessary...
56639
I installed one and it works very well. I have a total of 16 valves on it at this time.
1981539
If I understand your question correctly, you're asking if you can use one check valve for both the sump pump and the battery backup, the answer is yes, as long as the two line tie into one line, but the system won't work as efficiently, you loose pressure from either pump, I had the same configuration and added a check valve for each system and the pumps work much more effectively and less noise from the systems.
773369
My wife always use both of them at the same to save time. That is why we bought double pump.
1903252
I would not see why you couldn't plug two pumps into this control. Both pumps would need to be in the same place and both would run at the same time.. Since there is only place to plug in you would need an adapter to plug it in.