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Raritan water heater connections
- hlfm
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Raritan water heater connections
The new heater has much more separate ports, and I assumed the hose coming from the front of the engine would be the supply and the return would be going to the top of the engine. But after running engine, the lower heat exchange hose heats up before the upper, which makes me think I am wrong. The supply should go to the upper port on the tank says the instructions, and if so does it make a big enough difference for me to gush coolant out again and switch them?
- km1125
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Re: Raritan water heater connections
If it was the other kind of heat exchanger, where it's basically one tube inside another tube, then direction would matter as you want to keep the temperature delta between the two flowing liquids as high as you can across the whole length. In your application, the whole heat exchanger is sitting inside the tank and there's no appreciable temperature difference from top to bottom.
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