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This green box is next to the hot water heater in my basement. Any idea what it does and what the difference between the auto and manual settings are?
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well one more
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>>2976101
>hot water heater
If the water is already hot, why does it need to be heated?
Looks like an automatic water heater shutoff valve. A company called Taco makes some that use a similar color. Maybe it is an older version of that. Weil-McLain makes boilers. Did the place have a hot tub connected to that outside faucet at some point?
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You are -ALL- morons.
It's a ZONE VALVE
It's part of the home heating system as part of the boiler.
The green one and the silver one do the exact same thing, operate a mechanical controlled valve that will be connected to a thermostat.
Do not touch it.
There is never a reason for a homeowner to mess with it.
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>>2976165
> I’m a plumber, and I’m trying to drum up more business for my scammer brethren don’t touch your own property
That means: touch the fuck out of it, and save yourself the $2600 “plumber needs a new porsche” fee.
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>>2976165
OP here. Thanks, that makes the most sense. I think I was actually wrong earlier in the thread about where the pipe in the ceiling leads. The pipe actually I think leads to pipes in the baseboard heaters for the upstairs area of the house to keep it warm. So it makes sense that it is indeed a zone valve, since the wall thermostat upstairs most likely interacts with that zone valve to have hot water heat the upstairs house via the baseboards. (like if i increase the ambient temperature upstairs from 67 degrees to 70 degrees on the thermostat, it knows to kick on)
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>>2976440
OP here. Honestly I have no idea! I'm very new to this stuff and still learning. If there's any other areas you want me to take photos of just lmk, I can. The water heater is to the left and that's pretty much it, it's a small simple setup.
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these people are all annoying, you should know what you have in your home. Both of these boxes are called zone valves, its consists of two parts, the powerhead and the valve body, when the power head is supplied with 24 volts AC it opens, opening the valve in the valve body allowing water to flow to the heating zone, it also has a switch only activated when the powerhead fully opens the valve, it completes a separate circuit to the boiler control to tell it to run and activate the circulator pump (all handled by the aquastat). The little lever on the bottom is to allow you to bypass the valve forcing it open to allow water to flow without a call from the thermostat, helpful if the powerhead shits the bed or your thermostat is dead in a pinch.
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