Installing collectors
3. Guide the connection pipes into the flow and return
connections.
4. Hook in the next collector.
5. Push the next collector carefully against the first
and insert the connection pipes.
Distance to the lower edge of the fitted collector
21 mm.
Fitting the connection set and collector temperature sensor
Observe the following when installing the locking ring
fitting:
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All pipes must be cut at right angles and deburred.
Push the union nut and locking ring onto the pipes.
■
Lightly lubricate the threads with oil.
■
Push the pipe into the locking ring fitting as far as it
will go.
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Initially tighten union nut by hand, then tighten with
an open-ended spanner by a further
(cont.)
revolution.
¾
6. Install additional collectors.
7. Tighten all clamping brackets.
8. Fit the caps (part of the connection set).
Never fit annealed copper pipes onto the locking ring
fittings.
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