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In the middle of my plumbing rebuild. I had planned on changing the check valve on the hot water tank. Am I missing something as I don't see one.
Should there be one? If so on which side is it located?
Thanks
Jim
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Dara & Jim
2016 Reflection 337RLS
2014 F350
Conway, SC
jamieline
If you give us some details about your rig, we can probably help you more easily. I am going guess that you have a Kantleak brand water system, which does not use a check valve on the water heater outlet because of how the water heater bypass works with that system.
Yes I have the Kantleak system.
2016 Reflection 337RLS. Atwood 6 gal water heater.
No check valve needed !
The Kantleak valves are actually a very clever RV water control system. Much more integrated than the Nautilus system of many indivdual valves that replaced the Kantleak product because of quality problems with the Kantleak. You just have to use the main Kantleak valve more "carefully". Always relieve the water pressure before turning the valve and best to always turn the valve clockwise. And . . . keep a spare valve cartridge on hand. This is the part most likely to fail, but it is easy to change, just like a cartridge in a faucet.
Just FYI . . .
The Kantleak water heater bypass has four connections to it. 1) cold in, 2) to water heater in, 3) from water heater out and 4) to hot distribution system. In normal mode, that's the way it works. In bypass mode, cold in is connected to hot distribution and water heater in is connected to water heater out. This is why no check valve is required on the water heater output. This drains the lines on the water heater side of the valve when winterizing. As I said, the designers put some thought into this system . . . too bad the production guys reduced the quality to where there were so many problems.
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