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- Page 1 Pump installation and warranty guide for the Right Pump range This document should be given to the end user and retained for future reference. Should you need to contact Salamander Pumps you will need the below information.
- Page 2 Please leave this installation guide with the customer for reference to maintenance, safety information and details of warranty cover. Thank you for choosing Salamander Pumps Safety in Operation These appliances are not intended for use by persons (including children) with reduced physical,...
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Page 3: Table Of Contents
Contents Pre-Installation Checklist General Installation Typical installations Right Pump Positive System Operation Right Pump Universal (pressure vessel installation) Typical Installations Right Pump Universal Commissioning Helpful PumpWise Guidelines Cold Water Supplies and Storage Hot Water Blending Valve Helpful PumpWise Guidelines Water starvation protection, pipework arrangements and stored hot water General Specifications Trouble shooting PumpWise and Warranty... -
Page 4: Pre-Installation Checklist
Pre-Installation Checklist Our pre-installation guidelines are detailed on the following pages, but some of the key “do’s and don’t s” are highlighted below: Do’s Don’ts • Locate the pump next to the hot water • Never fit the pump to the cold water cylinder or within 5 metres of measured mains pipe - 2m MAX of 15mm pipe on inlet... -
Page 5: General Installation
Please follow these installation instructions carefully. Failure to install your pump in accordance with these instructions will invalidate your warranty. 1. Location of the pump 2.1 For pumps positioned above the hot outlet, hot The best location for the pump is at the base of water cylinder or in a loft the cylinder. - Page 6 3. Anti-vibration couplers Multiple cold water storage (CWS) tanks must be linked top and bottom in 28mm pipework (Hoses) and fitted with float operated valves in all tanks. Always link to comply with the Water The anti-vibration (AV) couplers are designed Supply (Water Fittings) Regulations 1999.
- Page 7 5 Electrical requirements Single pumps are designed to boost hot or cold water - supplied with x1 angled, inlet hose and The pump must be connected to the electrical x1 straight, outlet hose supply using the mains cable with the attached Twin pumps are designed to boost hot and cold plug.
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Page 8: Typical Installations Right Pump Positive
Typical Installation Right Pump Positive Range The selection of the Right pump positive for a Figure 7: Typical Right Pump Installation - system will be determined by the resistance pump located above the cylinder of, quantity of and pressure required by, the outlets. -
Page 9: System Operation
Non-Return Valves Non-return valves MUST NOT be fitted in the discharge pipework between the pump outlets and the system outlets unless specified by Salamander Pumps Pressure Vessel BEFORE INSTALLATION OF YOUR NEGATIVE HEAD PUMP - Fit the pressure vessel, if packaged separate to the pump. -
Page 10: Typical Installations Right Pump Universal
Typical Installations Single-ended Right pump universal Right Pump The following systems are best accommodated Universal by using a single-ended Right pump universal which is complete with a pressure vessel. Right pump universal to boost tank fed Right pump universal to supplies to instantaneous electric showers and shower columns or steam water heaters. - Page 11 Figure 11: Pressurised cylinder or Figure 13: Typical combi boiler system Combination boiler system Tank fed (hot) with cold water mains systems MUST use Right pump universal. Never use a single-ended Right Universal pump after the shower valve or before an open outlet.
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Page 12: Commissioning
Commissioning Before you finish Figure 14 FOR RIGHT PUMP UNIVERSALS, ENSURE THAT THE PRESSURE VESSEL IS FITTED TO THE BRASS CONNECTION ON THE TOP OF THE PUMP WITH THE ½” RUBBER WASHER AND IS HAND TIGHT. • Flush inlet pipework and carefully fill pump with water by discharging water from the outlet flexible coupler into a container. -
Page 13: Helpful Pumpwise Guidelines
Helpful Formula for calculation on rectangular tank: Guidelines - Depth (15”) x width (23”) x length (36”) Cold Water Supplies and = 12,420 cu inches Storage Volume cu inches (12,420) x 0.01639 = 203.56 litres Volume litres (203.56) x 0.22 = 44.78 gallons. -
Page 14: Hot Water Blending Valve
HWS TMV blending valve controller A Salamander approved HWS Blending valve controller will protect booster pumps in systems where the temperature of the stored hot water is uncontrolled or crudely controlled via boiler thermostat only – see below. Figure 17: HWS blending valve controller to pump Usable capacity minimum 50 galls per bathroom... -
Page 15: Helpful Pumpwise Guidelines
Helpful Guidelines - Water Starvation Protection, Pipework Arrangements and Stored Hot Water Shower head size and Water starvation protection Pressure In systems where it is absolutely not possible to increase the usable cold water storage The size of a shower head dictates the bar capacity to meet the increased demand of a pressure of the pump required to deliver the pumped system;... - Page 16 Figure 19: Anti-gravity loop (AGL) Figure 21: Horizontal cylinders Approved flanges (cylinders) The 22mm No Stop Essex and the other approved top entry flanges with extension pipes into the cylinder represent the best known means of ensuring minimal aeration of the hot supply water to the pump.
- Page 17 Warix flange see Figure 23 Figure 24: Inverted loops A. The Vent connection MUST be from side in Warix Flange. B. The supply connection to the pump MUST BE FROM THE TOP of the Warix Flange via a 22mm compression elbow and thereby avoid inverted loops.
- Page 18 Pump hunting protection Stored hot water temperature In negative head systems all the discharge pipework after the pump is pressurised. In Extract from BS5546:2010 (Current) such systems there exists the possibility the pump will hunt ON-OFF-ON etc. at intervals. “The mean temperature of the stored water should not normally exceed 60°C and in a This will happen: combined central heating and domestic...
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Page 19: General Specifications
We recommend the Right pump positive is ran at least five minutes every four Applications weeks to ‘exercise’ all working parts. Connections All Salamander pumps are designed to boost low pressure hot and cold supplies from tank- 3⁄4” BSP male. fed services. Initiation... - Page 20 Pump Model RP50PT RP75PT RP100PT General Guarantee 3 Years Features Pump Type Centrifugal Mechanical Seal PTFE/EDPM Rubber/Aluminium Oxide ✔ ✔ ✔ Inlet Isolator(s) Flexible Hoses Performance Pressure @ 16lpm (8lpm for 1.2 Bar 1.9 Bar 2.65 Bar singles) Pressure @ 8lpm (4lpm for 1.35 Bar 2.1 Bar 2.85 Bar...
- Page 21 Pump Model RP50TU RP75TU RP100TU RP55SU RP80SU RP120SU General Guarantee 3 Years Features Pump Type Centrifugal Mechanical Seal PTFE/EDPM Rubber/Aluminium Oxide ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Inlet Isolator(s) Flexible Hoses Performance Pressure @ 16lpm 1.2 Bar 1.9 Bar 2.65 Bar 1.3 Bar 2.1 Bar 3.15 Bar...
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Page 22: Troubleshooting
Troubleshooting Fault Probable cause Recommended solution Pump will not Electrical Check power supply start Check fuse Check circuit breaker Inlet/outlet connections Check that connections are plumbed the correct incorrect way round and all valves are open Insufficient gravity flow Check that installation complies with Salamander instructions Check suitability of pump –... - Page 23 Fault Probable cause Recommended solution Reduced/ Incorrect or no anti- Check that installation complies with Salamander intermittent aeration flange fitted instructions flow Insufficient gravity flow See above Blocked inlet filters Ensure that all filters and shower head are free from debris Couplers restricting Ensure that all AV couplers are straight and not flow...
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Page 24: Pumpwise And Warranty
Please read the full terms and conditions support and guidance. opposite. Our PumpWise commitment Salamander Pumps operates a policy of continuous development and reserves the Our PumpWise helpline is here to help you and right to change any of the specifications of its we aim to provide a support service second to products without prior notice. -
Page 25: To The Installer
To the installer Subject as provided in this warranty and except where the equipment is sold to a person dealing as a consumer all warranties, Please follow the guidelines for installation conditions or other terms implied by law are provided in this brochure and call the excluded to the fullest extent permitted by PumpWise helpline for installation advice. - Page 26 Disposal Instructions - b. Products supplied by the company, but are not of the company’s manufacture come with WEEE Directive 30 day warranty from date of purchase. Anti- Vibration Couplers (hoses) come with 1 year from date of purchase. Your appliance contains valuable materials that could be recovered or recycled.
- Page 28 Get in touch, we’re here to help call us on 0191 516 2002 Unit 2c Colima Avenue Enterprise Park West Sunderland, SR5 3XE Register your warranty Apply online at: www.salamanderpumps.co.uk Apply by phone: 0191 516 2002...