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All-Purpose OWF Discussions => Plumbing => Topic started by: american-pacemaker on November 03, 2014, 04:30:49 AM

Title: Wye strainer in supply
Post by: american-pacemaker on November 03, 2014, 04:30:49 AM

Should the wye strainer be installed before the pump or after the pump on the supply line to the flat plate heat exchanger ?
Thanks

Title: Re: Wye strainer in supply
Post by: slimjim on November 03, 2014, 04:34:11 AM

I like to put them after the circ, I find that after they are installed, nobody ever cleans them and then as they get dirty the circ starves for water and destroys the circ.

Title: Re: Wye strainer in supply
Post by: american-pacemaker on November 03, 2014, 04:42:13 AM

I am going to plumb a bypass around it so I can clean it when the boiler is running. I will install it right next to the exchanger with the pump pumping into it. Does it matter how close the pump is to the heat exchanger ? Thanks Slim.

Title: Re: Wye strainer in supply
Post by: mlappin on November 03, 2014, 06:50:38 AM

Quote from: slimjim on November 03, 2014, 04:34:11 AM

I like to put them after the circ, I find that after they are installed, nobody ever cleans them and then as they get dirty the circ starves for water and destroys the circ.

Agree with this a hundred percent, a pump can force water the an less than clean screen, however trying to pull water thru it is another story.

Title: Re: Wye strainer in supply
Post by: LittleJohn on November 03, 2014, 07:58:44 AM

...as long as you are on the supply side of the FPHE you are good.

But I do agree, easier to push thru and pull thru with pump  :thumbup: :thumbup: