Instructions / Assembly

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Installation
Disconnect all electric power to the water heater.
Remove the front cover panel on the water heater.
Install the recirculation pump on the return line
according to the pump manufacturer installation
instructions. Install a check valve in the return line
as shown in typical recirculation pump installation
if one is not integrated into the pump. See the
bottom of page 63 for Typical Recirculation Pump
Installation.
* Check valve is included in Rheem recirculation
pump kit.
The wire harness for the recirculation pump is
bundled with the wire harness from the control
board. Find a blue connector with a black and a
white wire.
To connect to the pump, cut the blue connector,
splice the wires, and add a 4 amp fuse to the hot
wire of the pump.
Connect the ground wire from the pump to a screw
at the base of the water heater cabinet.
NOTICE:
Follow any applicable electrical code and the pump
manufacture installation instruction referring to the
Pump Electrical Connection Diagram in Step 5 of these
instructions.
Find DIP Switch 2 in the top-right portion of the
control board. The switch labeled “DIP 2” is the
bottom switch.
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INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
Recirculation Control (cont.)
Control Board
Dip Switches
7
Control
Board
Blue
connector
BK
W
4
3
Control
Board
PUMP
Add
4 Amp
Fuse
Blue
connector
Cut blue connector
and splice wires.
BK
W
5
Ground
6
Recirculating Pump