Hybrid heater
AssigneePentair Water Pool and Spa, Inc.
InventorAzur Dzindo
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Abstract
A heater including a housing, a first tankless heater, a second tankless heater, a first and second flow directing elements, the first flow directing element in communication with the first tankless heater and the second flow directing element and the second flow directing element in communication with the second tankless heater, and a controller in communication with the first and second tankless heaters and the first and second flow directing elements, the controller configured to control the first and second flow directing elements to control flow to one or both of the first and second tankless heaters.
Claims20
A heater, comprising:
- a housing;
- a first tankless heater;
- a second tankless heater;
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- first and second flow directing elements, the first flow directing element in communication with the first tankless heater and the second flow directing element and the second flow directing element in communication with the second tankless heater, wherein the first flow directing element is configured to direct flow in one of the following manners at any given time:
- (1) only to the first tankless heater, (2) to the second flow directing element and, thus, the second tankless heater and bypassing the first tankless heater, or (3) to the first tankless heater and the second flow directing element.
A heater, comprising;
- a housing;
- a first tankless heater;
- a second tankless heater;
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- a first and second flow directing elements, the first flow directing element in communication with the first tankless heater and the second flow directing element and the second flow directing element in communication with the second tankless heater;
- a controller in communication with the first and second tankless heaters and the first and second flow directing elements, the controller configured to control the first and second flow directing elements to control flow to one or both of the first and second tankless heaters.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.