Megaflo cl170 advise

jbondo

Good evening,



Were moving into a property which has a megaflo cl170 water tank and ibwa wondering if anyone else has one and could provide some information on how this works as the manual is not very clear!



From what I can gather, the water can be heated either via the boiler or via the water heater on/off switch next to the water tank but from what I've been reading, they shouldn't both be on at the same time.


Does anyone know the best way to use these? Should it be mainly used via the boiler or just switched on at the switch?



I was reading in the manual that the manufacture thermastat is set to 60c. I take it I'm being stupid if I ask whether the water will still heat up if the switch if off and water off at the boiler?

fred246

It's a storage tank with 170 litres of water. It can be heated by your gas boiler or an electrical immersion heater. Heating is much cheaper by gas than electricity so the electric immersion heater should only be used if you have a boiler problem. There is normally a timer for the boiler. The boiler will be on when the hot water is less than 60 degress AND the timer is on. So if you NEVER want to run out of water you can leave it on. We have it on between 7am and 11pm so we could run out of water in the middle of the night but we don't have multiple showers in the middle of the night. If you use minimal hot water you might get away with an hour in the evening and an hour in the morning. 60 degrees is recommended to kill legionella. The water is heated via a heat exchanger so the same water that goes through your radiators heats the water up but never comes into contact with your fresh hot water.