Install Instructions
Table Of Contents
- Safe Installation, Use and Service
- APPROVALS
- General Safety Information
- Introduction
- Features And Components
- Installation Considerations
- Installation Requirements
- Gas Supply Systems
- Supply Gas Regulator
- Power Supply
- Mixing Valves
- Dishwashing Machines
- Closed Water Systems
- Thermal Expansion
- Temperature-Pressure Relief Valve
- Condensate Drain
- Combustible Material Storage
- Contaminated Air
- Air Requirements
- Unconfined Space
- Confined Space
- Fresh Air Openings For Confined Spaces
- Outdoor Air Through Two Openings
- Outdoor Air Through One Opening
- Outdoor Air Through Two Horizontal Ducts
- Outdoor Air Through Two Vertical Ducts
- Air From Other Indoor Spaces
- Installation Requirements - Commonwealth of Massachusetts
- Venting Installation
- General Venting Information
- General Venting Instructions
- Intake Air Connection
- Venting Requirements
- Venting Installation Sequence
- Power Vent Installation
- Direct Vent Installation
- Vertical Termination Installation
- Sidewall Termination Installation
- Polypropylene Installations
- Al29-4C® Vent Installations
- Concentric Termination Installation
- 4 Inch Concentric Termination Installation
- Low Profile Vent installation
- Venting Arrangements
- Termination Clearances Sidewall Power Vent
- Termination Clearances Sidewall Direct Vent
- Water Heater Installation
- Temperature Regulation
- Control System Operation
- Start Up
- Troubleshooting
- Maintenance
- Diagrams
- notes
- notes
- notes
- Service Inquiries:
- Commercial
- Water Heater
- Limited Warranty
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UNUSUALLY TIGHT CONSTRUCTION
In unconned spaces in buildings, inltration may be adequate
to provide air for combustion, ventilation and dilution of ue
gases. However, in buildings of unusually tight construction (for
example, weather stripping, heavily insulated, caulked, vapor
barrier, etc.) additional air must be provided using the methods
described in the Conned Space section that follows.
CONFINED SPACE
A Conned Space is one whose volume IS LESS THAN 50 cubic
feet per 1,000 Btu/hr (4.8 cm per kW) of the total input rating of
all appliances installed in the space.
Openings must be installed to provide fresh air for combustion,
ventilation and dilution in conned spaces. The required size for
the openings is dependent on the method used to provide fresh
air to the conned space AND the total Btu/hr input rating of all
appliances installed in the space.
DIRECT VENT APPLIANCES
Appliances installed in a Direct Vent conguration that derive all
air for combustion from the outdoor atmosphere through sealed
intake air piping are not factored in the total appliance input Btu/
hr calculations used to determine the size of openings providing
fresh air into conned spaces.
EXHAUST FANS
Where exhaust fans are installed, additional air shall be provided
to replace the exhausted air. When an exhaust fan is installed
in the same space with a water heater, sufcient openings to
provide fresh air must be provided that accommodate the
requirements for all appliances in the room and the exhaust fan.
Undersized openings will cause air to be drawn into the room
through the water heater’s vent system causing poor combustion.
Sooting, serious damage to the water heater and the risk of re
or explosion may result. It can also create a risk of asphyxiation.
LOUVERS AND GRILLES
The free areas of the fresh air openings in the instructions that
follow do not take in to account the presence of louvers, grilles or
screens in the openings.
The required size of openings for combustion, ventilation and
dilution air shall be based on the “net free area” of each opening.
Where the free area through a design of louver or grille or screen
is known, it shall be used in calculating the size of opening
required to provide the free area specied. Where the louver and
grille design and free area are not known, it shall be assumed
that wood louvers will have 25% free area and metal louvers and
grilles will have 75% free area. Non motorized louvers and grilles
shall be xed in the open position.
AIR REQUIREMENTS
Breathing Hazard - Carbon Monoxide Gas
Install water heater in accordance with
the Instruction Manual and NFPA 54 or
CAN/CSA-B149.1.
To avoid injury, combustion and ventilation
air must be taken from outdoors.
Do not place chemical vapor emitting
products near water heater.
Breathing carbon monoxide can cause brain damage or
death. Always read and understand instruction manual.
For safe operation an adequate supply of fresh uncontaminated
air for combustion and ventilation must be provided.
An insufcient supply of air can cause recirculation of
combustion products resulting in contamination that may be
hazardous to life. Such a condition often will result in a yellow,
luminous burner ame, causing sooting of the combustion
chamber, burners and ue tubes and creates a risk of
asphyxiation.
Do not install the water heater in a conned space unless an
adequate supply of air for combustion and ventilation is brought
in to that space using the methods described in the Conned
Space section that follows.
Never obstruct the ow of ventilation air. If you have any doubts
or questions at all, call your gas supplier. Failure to provide the
proper amount of combustion air can result in a re or explosion
and cause property damage, serious bodily injury or death.
UNCONFINED SPACE
An Unconned Space is one whose volume IS NOT LESS THAN
50 cubic feet per 1,000 Btu/hr (4.8 cubic meters per kW) of the
total input rating of all appliances installed in the space. Rooms
communicating directly with the space, in which the appliances
are installed, through openings not furnished with doors, are
considered a part of the unconned space.
Makeup air requirements for the operation of exhaust fans,
kitchen ventilation systems, clothes dryers and replaces shall
also be considered in determining the adequacy of a space to
provide combustion, ventilation and dilution air.