| Hot water heater and water pump acting strange [message #248395] |
Thu, 24 April 2014 19:26  |
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Last year I put one of the hot water heater bypass valves with check valve on the water heater for winterizing. All went well. Now Spring is here and I turn the valve and fill up the heater. Great! That was easy. The strange thing is, now it's acting kind of like a pressure tank. The pump cycles real fast, and when you turn the water off it cycles slower and slower until it stops. If I switch the pump off, the water will run for a long time with just the pressure from the tank. If I switch it to bypass everything works normally.
So what's going on? Is there just air in the tank? Does not seem to be any air coming out of the faucet. I've never had this problem without the bypass. Doesn't seem to make a lot of sense to me.
Anybody have any thoughts?...Thanks all
1975 Eleganza II
Hudson Valley NY
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