Measuring Gas Pressure Setting; How To Check Inlet Gas Pressure - Navien NP-180 Service Manual

6.2. Measuring Gas Pressure Setting

6.2.1. How to Check Inlet Gas Pressure

The Navien water heater cannot operate properly without sufficient inlet gas
pressure and volume. Below are instructions on how to check the inlet gas
pressure.
THIS SECTION IS ONLY TO BE DONE BY A LICENSED
Procedure to measure the inlet gas pressure:
1. Shut off the manual gas valve on the supply gas line.
2. Open a hot faucet. The unit should turn on and the gas in the gas pipe line should purge.
Leave the faucet on to keep the unit running until the unit shuts down due to lack of gas supply.
Then shut off the hot faucet.
3. Remove the screw for the pressure port located on the gas inlet of the water heater.
Pressure test port on gas line
4. Connect a manometer to the pressure port and reset it to zero.
5. Re-open the manual gas valve. Check to see that there are no gas leaks.
6. Open multiple fixtures that have high flow rates (bathtub, showers, kitchen sink) to ramp the
water heater up to its maximum burn.
7. When the Navien water heater is at maximum burn, check the inlet gas pressure reading on the
manometer; it should read between 5"(6" 180 model) ~10.5" W.C for Natural gas between 8.0"
(9" 180 model) ~13.5" W.C for Liquid Propane.
8. The maximum inlet gas pressure must not exceed the value specified by the manufacturer
and that the minimum value listed is for the purposes of input adjustment.
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