[C38] FW: Water heater plumbing

[Tom T.]

>From the looks of these drawings, it appears that the valve in between the two hoses going to the hot water heater allows a bypass if you don't want to heat the hot water heater.  I can't imagine how that could be beneficial.

If the heater core in the hot water heater failed, the bypass wouldn't help.

If the engine was overheating, the hot water heater actually adds cooling to the system until the hot water heater is fully heated. Again, no benefical benefit that I can see.

As Steve Peregrine said, Catalina no longer uses that valve so I guess they came to the came conclusions.

I am a dedicated member of the KISS program whenever possible.

Tom Troncalli



----- Original Message ----- 
From: Steve Smolinske 
To: Catalina 38 Listserve
Sent: 8/23/2009 6:12:24 PM 
Subject: [C38] FW: Water heater plumbing


Tom, these are from Max, this is what I have, I cant figure out what the use is




From: Max Soto [mailto:maxsoto at gmail.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 1:45 PM
To: Steve Smolinske
Subject: Water heater plumbing


Hi Steve,

Just in case, here are a couple of water heater plumbing diagram. Your valve seems to be original equipment.
Hope this helps,

-- 
Max Soto
C38 #198 ESTANCIA
Puntarenas, Costa Rica

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