a beautiful boat should sail forever.
BEYOND THE ACCUMULATOR
So the accumulator has an initial Charge of pressure - which may or may not be correct for your pump on/off pressure range. What should the initial charge be? Consider a system with only the pump and the accumulator - if the accumulator were set at the cut off pressure of the pump, or higher, the pump might not come on, and if it did the accumulator would not store much energy. If the charge was below the cut in pressure of the pump it would be pointless because the pump would cut in before the energy could be used. So the correct setting, from what I have gathered, is a pound or so above the pump cut in pressure. If it is right at the cut in pressure the pump and accumulator pressure may oscillate back and forth, i.e. the pump might stutter as it tries to cut in.
H) Beyond the accumulator the "trunk" branches into hot and cold water. Before the cold water enters the water heater there is a check valve to keep the hot water from expanding back into the cold water. Some systems show a thermal expansion tank identical to the accumulator, but on the other side of the hot water heater to accommodate the expansion of the volume of heated water, but I am TRYING mine with out it.
J) The two tools for PEX installation. The crimper is under $100 or can be rented. The cutter is $13.
I) now we have two parallel trunk lines. One cold and one hot. We simply "T" off to the various sinks and showers, wiith the "trunk" line ending at the last "branch".
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