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How to Replace a Circulator Pump on a Boiler
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00:00:09.450 all right YouTube we're going to replace 00:00:11.79000:00:11.800 a circulator 00:00:12.88000:00:12.890 today in fact we're going to 00:00:15.44000:00:15.450 this circulator pump so this pump for a 00:00:19.25000:00:19.260 little while has had bearing noise and 00:00:21.17000:00:21.180 it's definitely sounded like it was 00:00:22.49000:00:22.500 failing so I'm gonna swap it out today 00:00:24.01900:00:24.029 and I'll show you how so to do this job 00:00:26.54000:00:26.550 we're gonna need a few tools I've laid 00:00:28.97000:00:28.980 out and they are right here so we've got 00:00:33.77000:00:33.780 a towel some wrenches couple of 00:00:35.45000:00:35.460 screwdrivers and a pair of wire cutters 00:00:37.46000:00:37.470 so I'll take you through what you use 00:00:39.50000:00:39.510 each of these for the pump that we're 00:00:42.50000:00:42.510 going to install today and replace the 00:00:44.29900:00:44.309 existing one is with this unit this is a 00:00:47.51000:00:47.520 tako three-speed ECM pump and what that 00:00:50.60000:00:50.610 means is electronically commutated motor 00:00:53.00000:00:53.010 and all it really means is a new style 00:00:55.52000:00:55.530 of motor and no longer uses traditional 00:00:58.70000:00:58.710 I guess you'd say like magnetic brushes 00:01:01.16000:01:01.170 so these save a lot of power they're 00:01:03.05000:01:03.060 supposed to be the future I hope they 00:01:04.39900:01:04.409 last as long and this pump actually is 00:01:07.16000:01:07.170 kind of unique and I'll pull this over 00:01:09.49000:01:09.500 take a look at the top so this actually 00:01:12.28900:01:12.299 has four bolt holes on it and what's 00:01:14.92900:01:14.939 pretty neat about this is depending on 00:01:16.55000:01:16.560 your installation you can have the pump 00:01:18.98000:01:18.990 rotated this way well that way so 00:01:22.21900:01:22.229 sometimes you need to have a pump in a 00:01:24.41000:01:24.420 different configuration so tako makes 00:01:26.74900:01:26.759 this pump and it's fairly universal so 00:01:30.44000:01:30.450 if you're going to buy one pump this is 00:01:31.76000:01:31.770 a good one in addition if you look 00:01:34.76000:01:34.770 closely here you're gonna notice that 00:01:36.69900:01:36.709 there is a low medium and high zoom in 00:01:41.88900:01:41.899 low medium and high on this and that's 00:01:44.95900:01:44.969 how you can actually dial in the speed 00:01:46.27900:01:46.289 so you can get it exactly how you want 00:01:47.98900:01:47.999 it and actually one other thing I should 00:01:49.91000:01:49.920 point out too if you notice that little 00:01:51.98000:01:51.990 thing that says status that's actually 00:01:53.95900:01:53.969 an LED so sometimes these pumps are 00:01:55.99900:01:56.009 actually so quiet you can hardly hear 00:01:57.52900:01:57.539 them running so it's very important to 00:02:00.01900:02:00.029 have that light and actually if you look 00:02:01.03900:02:01.049 at the picture here you can see that LED 00:02:02.69000:02:02.700 in addition in the box you also get 00:02:05.41900:02:05.429 obviously instructions you get all rings 00:02:09.32000:02:09.330 and the last piece you get is this 00:02:11.48000:02:11.490 little check valve and this little check 00:02:13.40000:02:13.410 valve will actually get installed into 00:02:14.87000:02:14.880 the pump and I'll show that in a minute 00:02:15.98000:02:15.990 so talk about these o-rings for a second 00:02:18.94900:02:18.959 when you go to supply houses a lot of 00:02:21.94900:02:21.959 professional plumbers do not like these 00:02:23.42000:02:23.430 o-rings and they're actually pretty neat 00:02:25.39900:02:25.409 they sit directly into the 00:02:28.89000:02:28.900 grove and push them in there a little 00:02:31.08000:02:31.090 bit and take those directions 00:02:35.19000:02:35.200 specifically say do not use any other 00:02:37.80000:02:37.810 kind of sealant or any other kind of 00:02:41.33900:02:41.349 oring 00:02:41.85000:02:41.860 so traditionally plumbers like to use 00:02:44.13000:02:44.140 the large square sealing pads and I 00:02:47.39900:02:47.409 think that you see that all the time so 00:02:49.64900:02:49.659 the only comment about that is that 00:02:50.94000:02:50.950 these directions specifically say not to 00:02:53.84900:02:53.859 do that 00:02:54.39000:02:54.400 they say the warranty is voided if you 00:02:56.03900:02:56.049 use any other roll ring except for that 00:02:57.83900:02:57.849 one so I'm not saying it's right or 00:03:00.27000:03:00.280 wrong I'm just telling you what it says 00:03:01.50000:03:01.510 so let's move on so on my particular 00:03:03.50900:03:03.519 installation I've actually got two shut 00:03:06.83900:03:06.849 offs here on my circulator so again this 00:03:09.89900:03:09.909 is the circulator I'm changing the 00:03:12.05900:03:12.069 electricity to the boiler is off so at 00:03:15.62900:03:15.639 this point what I've got to do is two 00:03:17.81900:03:17.829 things I've got to remove the pump 00:03:19.41000:03:19.420 physically to get the water pump portion 00:03:22.37900:03:22.389 of it out and then I've got to do this 00:03:23.87900:03:23.889 electrical piece to connect the new pump 00:03:25.58900:03:25.599 so I'll show you a few steps so on mine 00:03:27.83900:03:27.849 I am very fortunate and I have these 00:03:29.25000:03:29.260 shutoff valves so I'm going to turn each 00:03:31.17000:03:31.180 of them all the way off so you may not 00:03:34.71000:03:34.720 have shutoff valves and if you don't 00:03:37.22900:03:37.239 what that typically means you've got to 00:03:38.72900:03:38.739 do is you've got to show all the power 00:03:40.22900:03:40.239 off and then you've got to drain the 00:03:42.18000:03:42.190 water out of your boiler some people 00:03:44.18900:03:44.199 will drain as much as they can they'll 00:03:45.62900:03:45.639 use these types of drains and then 00:03:48.03000:03:48.040 they'll just go for it they'll unbolt 00:03:49.64900:03:49.659 this and they'll try to catch the water 00:03:51.53900:03:51.549 it's a little bit more complicated to 00:03:53.52000:03:53.530 drain your boiler out but I'll show you 00:03:55.53000:03:55.540 how it's done on mine and you can see if 00:03:56.93900:03:56.949 you can find your own way or if you have 00:03:58.31900:03:58.329 shut offs you can do the same that I'm 00:03:59.87900:03:59.889 doing so next thing I'm going to do a 00:04:03.27000:04:03.280 point of the towel obviously is to catch 00:04:05.15900:04:05.169 some water so even though I have this 00:04:07.17000:04:07.180 water these water valves shut off all 00:04:09.03000:04:09.040 the way when I take this out and I 00:04:10.77000:04:10.780 loosen these bolts I'm gonna lose some 00:04:12.75000:04:12.760 water and it's gonna come down on this 00:04:14.18900:04:14.199 this can be really hot water I know this 00:04:16.40900:04:16.419 zone has been off for a while so it's 00:04:19.02000:04:19.030 actually fairly cool but again if you've 00:04:21.02900:04:21.039 got boiling water coming out you got to 00:04:22.74000:04:22.750 be careful so next thing I'm gonna do is 00:04:25.83000:04:25.840 that each of these flanges has two bolts 00:04:28.52900:04:28.539 and I've got to remove those so I'm 00:04:31.86000:04:31.870 gonna put a wrench you need two wrenches 00:04:35.82000:04:35.830 for this you have an upper bolt and a 00:04:38.85000:04:38.860 lower 00:04:40.43900:04:40.449 wanna loosen each of these I'll take 00:04:44.55900:04:44.569 them both off and you'll see that the 00:04:45.96900:04:45.979 water is going to come off both of these 00:05:01.76900:05:01.779 your bolts have been on here a long long 00:05:04.11900:05:04.129 time can actually be pretty tricky you 00:05:08.76900:05:08.779 can start to see the water's coming out 00:05:10.08900:05:10.099 now and then the power is off I have the 00:05:11.98000:05:11.990 breaker off as well so I shouldn't have 00:05:14.23000:05:14.240 any problems with that take these bolts 00:05:16.77900:05:16.789 out and then I'm gonna get the bolts in 00:05:19.57000:05:19.580 the back as well said one more to go all 00:05:36.99900:05:37.009 right you can see a bunch of water 00:05:38.82900:05:38.839 coming out hopefully these valves will 00:05:41.29000:05:41.300 hold but there's a good amount of water 00:05:43.51000:05:43.520 in this little section so that's why I 00:05:45.51900:05:45.529 put the towel better catch it this pump 00:05:51.21900:05:51.229 is gonna be free when I lift this so you 00:05:53.37900:05:53.389 want to be ready to catch it so I'm 00:05:55.86900:05:55.879 gonna lift this pipe a little and 00:05:57.87900:05:57.889 there's the water I don't I might have 00:06:01.74900:06:01.759 to support that a little bit so you 00:06:06.49000:06:06.500 gotta be careful with plumbing because 00:06:08.21900:06:08.229 sometimes if I just let this go that can 00:06:11.82900:06:11.839 actually break off so what I'm gonna try 00:06:14.05000:06:14.060 to do this isn't necessarily the most 00:06:17.40900:06:17.419 amazing thing in the world is you're 00:06:19.02900:06:19.039 gonna place this wrench here just 00:06:20.23000:06:20.240 temporarily just to hold that I'm gonna 00:06:23.67900:06:23.689 get to make sure these o-rings if you 00:06:25.30000:06:25.310 notice right here this all ring is still 00:06:27.82000:06:27.830 seated so we got to get that out of here 00:06:30.51900:06:30.529 so we're gonna take that out and the 00:06:33.30900:06:33.319 next thing actually I'm here it's gonna 00:06:35.95000:06:35.960 clean these flanges a little bit it's 00:06:38.82900:06:38.839 important with these new seals 00:06:42.34000:06:42.350 I think you get a clean base you can see 00:06:45.34000:06:45.350 quite a bit of buildup there I'll do the 00:06:48.34000:06:48.350 same with this trying to tighten that a 00:06:53.56000:06:53.570 little bit more there we go 00:06:56.41000:06:56.420 I think that'll actually hold a little 00:06:57.91000:06:57.920 better so again I'm going to check to 00:06:59.77000:06:59.780 make sure that there's nothing coming 00:07:02.47000:07:02.480 out I'm gonna just brace that just a 00:07:10.33000:07:10.340 hold down tighten that a little bit so 00:07:12.39000:07:12.400 again I wouldn't want to leave this like 00:07:14.44000:07:14.450 this but that's long enough just to keep 00:07:16.24000:07:16.250 the plumbing from falling now we're 00:07:17.65000:07:17.660 gonna work on the wiring for the pump 00:07:19.71000:07:19.720 the next thing we're gonna do is we're 00:07:22.51000:07:22.520 going to take this little cover off to 00:07:23.74000:07:23.750 get the wiring exposed all right 00:07:40.47000:07:40.480 so for electrical wiring this is 00:07:42.82000:07:42.830 something you may want to watch another 00:07:43.87000:07:43.880 video but in my case there's two wires 00:07:46.09000:07:46.100 in here you've got a hot in a neutral 00:07:48.04000:07:48.050 and all I've got to do is undo these 00:07:50.35000:07:50.360 wire nuts you actually want to support 00:07:52.45000:07:52.460 this a little bit I'll do this undo 00:07:59.65000:07:59.660 these 00:08:07.83000:08:07.840 all right hot the neutral the next thing 00:08:13.00000:08:13.010 I've got to do is there's a little 00:08:14.68000:08:14.690 nuttin here you can see that little knot 00:08:16.45000:08:16.460 in the back again make sure your wire is 00:08:20.20000:08:20.210 off I mean you're on power is off 00:08:22.81000:08:22.820 obviously all right 00:08:32.11000:08:32.120 the old pump is completely off just to 00:08:35.83000:08:35.840 make sure okay so the next thing I want 00:08:38.08000:08:38.090 to explain is if you look on the base of 00:08:41.17000:08:41.180 this pump you're gonna see a little 00:08:42.94000:08:42.950 dirty thing in there and that's okay 00:08:44.68000:08:44.690 that it's not so clean that is this and 00:08:51.64000:08:51.650 this is that check valve that I talked 00:08:53.08000:08:53.090 about earlier so what happens what they 00:08:55.36000:08:55.370 what they do is they generally will 00:08:56.77000:08:56.780 supply this with certain model pumps so 00:08:58.93000:08:58.940 that's why it's important to take your 00:09:00.10000:09:00.110 old model number and give that to your 00:09:02.23000:09:02.240 supply house so that they can help you 00:09:03.70000:09:03.710 so what we've got to do now is take our 00:09:06.79000:09:06.800 new pump and put this in the same 00:09:08.56000:09:08.570 location for the directions so again in 00:09:11.11000:09:11.120 my case my pump was installed like this 00:09:12.94000:09:12.950 the check valve was in the bottom so 00:09:14.68000:09:14.690 that's exactly how we're going to 00:09:15.64000:09:15.650 install the new one so I put the old 00:09:17.86000:09:17.870 pump aside take the new pump which is 00:09:21.49000:09:21.500 right here and I might just put a little 00:09:24.61000:09:24.620 bit of water on the inside to help 00:09:26.26000:09:26.270 lubricate it a little bit and we are 00:09:30.52000:09:30.530 gonna put it in the way this goes it 00:09:32.05000:09:32.060 actually installs just like the old one 00:09:33.64000:09:33.650 gonna put it in just check the spring a 00:09:38.59000:09:38.600 little bit if you notice on this if you 00:09:40.06000:09:40.070 push this in a little bit a little 00:09:42.07000:09:42.080 spring action so we're gonna insert this 00:09:44.41000:09:44.420 in the bottom and press that in all the 00:09:47.95000:09:47.960 way let's go with it alright sometimes 00:09:49.60000:09:49.610 to rotate just gently to make sure it's 00:09:51.34000:09:51.350 in all the way and again that goes in 00:09:54.07000:09:54.080 far so when I just first push that in it 00:09:56.83000:09:56.840 didn't feel like it went in all the way 00:09:57.94000:09:57.950 and I just pushed it in the extra 00:09:59.44000:09:59.450 distance and now it really is in so 00:10:02.11000:10:02.120 that's as far as it's gonna go so now 00:10:04.21000:10:04.220 you can see we have our new one in so 00:10:06.52000:10:06.530 now at this point I actually can install 00:10:08.56000:10:08.570 the pump into the location and we can do 00:10:11.65000:10:11.660 the wiring after so I think that's 00:10:13.48000:10:13.490 actually what I'm gonna do so I'm gonna 00:10:14.77000:10:14.780 take this little cover off and if you 00:10:16.69000:10:16.700 notice they've already got this 00:10:18.51900:10:18.529 on the bottom so what I'm gonna do now 00:10:21.22000:10:21.230 is give you a shot of this I'm going to 00:10:26.86000:10:26.870 just unscrew this lip this is for the 00:10:28.21000:10:28.220 electrical let's cover off that little 00:10:34.68900:10:34.699 screw aside and that's our electrical 00:10:37.48000:10:37.490 and these new ones are very very easy so 00:10:40.44900:10:40.459 put that cover aside and the next thing 00:10:43.15000:10:43.160 we're gonna do is get our pump ready to 00:10:45.54900:10:45.559 install so the next thing we want to do 00:10:47.86000:10:47.870 is take our brand new o-rings and we 00:10:49.78000:10:49.790 want to put them on the pump so what I 00:10:51.69900:10:51.709 personally like to do I like to put them 00:10:54.61000:10:54.620 in place on the pump first and they do 00:10:57.93900:10:57.949 push into these grooves pretty well so 00:10:59.86000:10:59.870 I'm going to set these in now this is 00:11:02.01900:11:02.029 where you can get into trouble because 00:11:03.97000:11:03.980 when you're going to install these it's 00:11:05.67900:11:05.689 very very easy to have these fall off 00:11:08.49900:11:08.509 while you're working and you can also 00:11:13.21000:11:13.220 knock them out knock them out of place 00:11:15.34000:11:15.350 while you're putting them on so you want 00:11:18.67000:11:18.680 to make sure they're set in there pretty 00:11:19.78000:11:19.790 well you've got your check valve in 00:11:21.73000:11:21.740 place the other thing that's incredibly 00:11:24.16000:11:24.170 important and I have a mentioned to get 00:11:26.35000:11:26.360 is these pumps have a direction and the 00:11:29.59000:11:29.600 key you can hardly see this but there is 00:11:32.43900:11:32.449 an arrow right there and that arrow is 00:11:34.15000:11:34.160 pointing down so the only thing you need 00:11:36.18900:11:36.199 to know is that these pumps have to be 00:11:37.54000:11:37.550 installed with the flow going a certain 00:11:39.42900:11:39.439 way now so make sure the direction of 00:11:42.93900:11:42.949 the pump is flowing the way the existing 00:11:44.49900:11:44.509 pump was and you should be fine so now 00:11:47.19900:11:47.209 that we've got our o-rings in place 00:11:49.13900:11:49.149 we're going to go put this back onto the 00:11:53.19900:11:53.209 pump flange and the double check to make 00:11:56.92000:11:56.930 sure our or rings are in place you see I 00:11:58.50900:11:58.519 have these first o-ring on the bottom 00:12:00.51900:12:00.529 and I have another one here and they're 00:12:02.25900:12:02.269 seated very well so the next thing I 00:12:04.74900:12:04.759 need to do is to take my little 00:12:06.57900:12:06.589 temporary wrench that was kind of 00:12:08.59000:12:08.600 holding this all up let me see if I can 00:12:11.19900:12:11.209 dry some of this water again make sure 00:12:13.90000:12:13.910 that flange is clean because if it's not 00:12:17.46000:12:17.470 that's when you're really going to have 00:12:19.29900:12:19.309 some ceiling troubles so we're gonna set 00:12:22.44900:12:22.459 this right in place where the bolt holes 00:12:25.29900:12:25.309 are so because I've got a little bit of 00:12:27.69900:12:27.709 water coming out at the end of the world 00:12:30.69000:12:30.700 but I also don't want to take all day on 00:12:32.73000:12:32.740 this either so we're gonna get these 00:12:36.12000:12:36.130 bolts going in start Breton easy let's 00:12:47.91000:12:47.920 write them all by hand the start and 00:12:51.60000:12:51.610 remember you can do your wiring after 00:13:07.40000:13:07.410 [Music] 00:13:09.65000:13:09.660 seams install our back bolts so again 00:13:22.86000:13:22.870 all I'm doing is I'm snugging it can 00:13:25.38000:13:25.390 hear my kids in the background 00:13:26.64000:13:26.650 typical typical day here alright so at 00:13:33.39000:13:33.400 this point the bolts are all in so this 00:13:39.09000:13:39.100 new pump is a little bit different than 00:13:40.80000:13:40.810 the original in the sense that you no 00:13:43.14000:13:43.150 longer need to put a wrench on both 00:13:45.06000:13:45.070 sides and it's the reverse of what I 00:13:46.47000:13:46.480 told you these bolts actually fit into a 00:13:49.02000:13:49.030 tiny little groove that is here and they 00:13:52.14000:13:52.150 actually hold it for you so now I 00:13:53.52000:13:53.530 actually have to tighten it using the 00:13:55.86000:13:55.870 top bolts so the other thing what 00:13:57.72000:13:57.730 plumbing that I really like to do is 00:13:59.73000:13:59.740 before I tighten these up you just 00:14:02.22000:14:02.230 actually loosen on that for a minute I 00:14:03.54000:14:03.550 just want to make sure I don't have any 00:14:05.88000:14:05.890 kind of tension on this so I just wait a 00:14:08.10000:14:08.110 little bit and now I'm going to start to 00:14:10.02000:14:10.030 tighten this so again you want to take 00:14:12.81000:14:12.820 the obviously have to tighten both sides 00:14:14.19000:14:14.200 front and back and I like to alternate a 00:14:16.50000:14:16.510 bit tighten this and already I can see 00:14:22.98000:14:22.990 that the water is starting to stop which 00:14:25.29000:14:25.300 is probably a good thing I'll do the 00:14:28.98000:14:28.990 bottom do the opposite side 00:14:35.44900:14:35.459 so this is where you're gonna see a big 00:14:38.93900:14:38.949 difference how people do this I tighten 00:14:42.48000:14:42.490 them pretty tight right no I'm sure they 00:14:45.48000:14:45.490 can be too tight but like I want to find 00:14:47.93900:14:47.949 any leak so the other thing to remember 00:14:50.12900:14:50.139 with a lot heating is that heating 00:14:54.26900:14:54.279 pressures by typically less than 20 psi 00:14:57.25900:14:57.269 so most often you do want things very 00:15:00.84000:15:00.850 tight but it shouldn't take an enormous 00:15:03.30000:15:03.310 amount of force to seal because you 00:15:05.46000:15:05.470 don't have as much pressure so at this 00:15:08.00900:15:08.019 point these bolts are in place I got the 00:15:13.17000:15:13.180 front and back pretty tight all right so 00:15:18.36000:15:18.370 as far as the water portion of this pump 00:15:20.00900:15:20.019 goes this parts done 00:15:22.07900:15:22.089 so now everything's tightened up and 00:15:24.96000:15:24.970 it's all in place 00:15:26.22000:15:26.230 I believe our gaskets are in good shape 00:15:28.68000:15:28.690 I didn't see anything come out I think 00:15:31.07900:15:31.089 things are pretty well sealed air in 00:15:32.43000:15:32.440 here so now these are open if you have 00:15:34.25900:15:34.269 these shutoff valves so at this point if 00:15:36.32900:15:36.339 you didn't have shutoff valves I will 00:15:38.16000:15:38.170 continue and do the electrical and do 00:15:39.72000:15:39.730 everything at the end so now we're going 00:15:42.78000:15:42.790 to move on to the electrical so the 00:15:45.72000:15:45.730 first thing I've got to do is I've 00:15:47.25000:15:47.260 actually got to put this into the box so 00:15:50.43000:15:50.440 if you notice way you do these first you 00:15:52.86000:15:52.870 put the wire in the way I like to do it 00:15:55.65000:15:55.660 is I like to get the wire in pretty much 00:15:56.91000:15:56.920 all the way and you notice this little 00:15:59.30900:15:59.319 metal part goes in but it's obviously 00:16:00.72000:16:00.730 loose so the next thing you need to do 00:16:02.93900:16:02.949 is that not that you have taken off 00:16:05.06900:16:05.079 before you put that on your wires and 00:16:07.79000:16:07.800 that gets threaded onto this which is 00:16:11.63900:16:11.649 the top of the connector these gonna be 00:16:14.81900:16:14.829 a little bit finicky to get on there 00:16:16.59000:16:16.600 real rough thread let's see if we can 00:16:19.92000:16:19.930 get this alright so once this gets on 00:16:24.42000:16:24.430 you can tighten that up a bit again it 00:16:28.94900:16:28.959 doesn't have to be blistering tight 00:16:33.51000:16:33.520 all right so now we're getting somewhere 00:16:36.36000:16:36.370 the last thing we need to do is connect 00:16:38.52000:16:38.530 the white and a black and this is my 00:16:40.62000:16:40.630 original wiring and sometimes these 00:16:43.38000:16:43.390 wires can be really beat-up they 00:16:44.85000:16:44.860 actually look pretty good to me so I'm 00:16:46.08000:16:46.090 not gonna recut them or strip them or 00:16:47.67000:16:47.680 anything I'm gonna use them just as is 00:16:48.96000:16:48.970 and then now I've got the pump wire so 00:16:51.69000:16:51.700 I'm going to show you another thing 00:16:53.07000:16:53.080 that's a little bit different instead of 00:16:56.13000:16:56.140 just using these were what was 00:16:57.72000:16:57.730 originally on there and that's fine you 00:16:59.52000:16:59.530 can use these I have another idea and 00:17:02.16000:17:02.170 I'm gonna show that to you right now all 00:17:04.80000:17:04.810 right you tube is brace yourself or 00:17:06.69000:17:06.700 something 00:17:07.19900:17:07.209 all right this is what people get upset 00:17:09.23000:17:09.240 they gonna see this little thing you say 00:17:11.34000:17:11.350 what is this piece of junk right so this 00:17:13.68000:17:13.690 thing right here I don't know how well 00:17:15.18000:17:15.190 you can say it there's actually a brand 00:17:17.22000:17:17.230 if you can hear off on my kids screaming 00:17:18.87000:17:18.880 called Wego and this is a different kind 00:17:21.63000:17:21.640 of electrical connector one of the real 00:17:23.61000:17:23.620 benefits of this they do really well 00:17:25.77000:17:25.780 when you're mixing types of wire so 00:17:28.05000:17:28.060 obviously from the pump and I'm going to 00:17:29.82000:17:29.830 just twist these a little bit 00:17:30.99000:17:31.000 it's a stranded wire and you can see 00:17:33.48000:17:33.490 that this has a bunch of strands and 00:17:35.42000:17:35.430 from your house why are you almost 00:17:37.47000:17:37.480 always going to have solid connections 00:17:41.73000:17:41.740 like this so what's really great about 00:17:44.13000:17:44.140 these they do really well when you mix 00:17:45.81000:17:45.820 solid and stranded wire which sometimes 00:17:48.06000:17:48.070 with wire nuts that can be a problem and 00:17:49.71000:17:49.720 they can come off over time the other 00:17:52.17000:17:52.180 benefits of this is when you want to 00:17:53.79000:17:53.800 remove them they come off easily and 00:17:55.29000:17:55.300 they don't damage the wire so the way 00:17:57.15000:17:57.160 these work and I like these a lot 00:17:58.83000:17:58.840 you lift these up you have to push them 00:18:01.26000:18:01.270 all the way up these little tiny lovers 00:18:03.26000:18:03.270 once those lovers are up all you have to 00:18:05.97000:18:05.980 do is set them on the wire and click 00:18:08.91000:18:08.920 this and that's it pull that as hard as 00:18:12.09000:18:12.100 I want that's not coming off so at that 00:18:14.37000:18:14.380 point I've just got to reconnect the 00:18:15.87000:18:15.880 pump and we're getting we're getting on 00:18:17.73000:18:17.740 our way so actually I'm looking at this 00:18:20.64000:18:20.650 I don't love how curly this wire is so I 00:18:22.74000:18:22.750 am gonna re strip these so I'm just 00:18:24.54000:18:24.550 gonna use my wire cutters I hold on so 00:18:26.55000:18:26.560 it doesn't go shooting across the room 00:18:28.61000:18:28.620 and what I'm gonna do is just cut each 00:18:31.02000:18:31.030 of these you don't want to do this a 00:18:34.05000:18:34.060 hundred times but that's the benefit of 00:18:35.88000:18:35.890 the way go connectors is once you put 00:18:37.50000:18:37.510 these on you'll never damage is wire 00:18:39.33000:18:39.340 again if you have to change the pump 00:18:40.65000:18:40.660 again all right so what we're going to 00:18:42.45000:18:42.460 do now we're just going to strip some 00:18:44.49000:18:44.500 insulation off these wires and 00:18:46.62000:18:46.630 we're ready to install let's take this 00:18:51.20000:18:51.210 this looks like 14-gauge to me which is 00:18:53.97000:18:53.980 how I'm going to line this out whoops 00:19:02.97900:19:02.989 it looks quite a bit better than me just 00:19:06.34900:19:06.359 nice and clean and it's straight which 00:19:07.96900:19:07.979 these connectors prefer so another cool 00:19:09.95000:19:09.960 thing about this is you could actually 00:19:11.11900:19:11.129 do some of your wiring so you can sort 00:19:13.12900:19:13.139 of split it up so one of the first 00:19:14.95900:19:14.969 things I'm going to do is I'll put one 00:19:17.20900:19:17.219 you can see there's two holes in this 00:19:18.70900:19:18.719 and they make different versions they 00:19:19.87900:19:19.889 have ones with three holes five holes 00:19:22.15900:19:22.169 and more so we're gonna just put this 00:19:24.16900:19:24.179 onto the first leg and what's most 00:19:28.07000:19:28.080 important when you look at this you 00:19:29.69000:19:29.700 don't want to see any copper insulation 00:19:31.48900:19:31.499 at the bottom of this so you shouldn't 00:19:33.16900:19:33.179 have anything exposed so again I push 00:19:34.99900:19:35.009 that down that's on there nice and tight 00:19:36.84900:19:36.859 second one I'm gonna flip these love is 00:19:38.95900:19:38.969 up like this put that on so now we've 00:19:46.24900:19:46.259 got the hot and the neutral and now 00:19:49.39900:19:49.409 we're going to take the pumps hot and 00:19:50.89900:19:50.909 neutral and I'll twist these just a 00:19:52.31000:19:52.320 little bit and I put them in to the way 00:19:54.85900:19:54.869 go lock that in and I'm gonna put the 00:19:58.07000:19:58.080 second in as well so I would say that 00:20:00.32000:20:00.330 one downside of these Wego connectors is 00:20:02.83900:20:02.849 that sometimes they're a little bigger 00:20:04.72900:20:04.739 than wire nuts and they won't fit in the 00:20:06.16900:20:06.179 box which means that when you fold them 00:20:08.53900:20:08.549 up and put them inside here sometimes 00:20:10.12900:20:10.139 they're a little tight but in this case 00:20:11.29900:20:11.309 I should have plenty of room and most 00:20:13.24900:20:13.259 modern stuff is starting to realize that 00:20:15.10900:20:15.119 a lot of people use these connectors and 00:20:17.44000:20:17.450 they they need a little bit more room so 00:20:21.34900:20:21.359 I think I find that sometimes these 00:20:22.39900:20:22.409 boxes are a bit larger so now what I'm 00:20:24.56000:20:24.570 gonna do is I'm going to tuck these in 00:20:26.40900:20:26.419 try to stay out of the angle and what I 00:20:29.81000:20:29.820 like to do is I don't just shove these 00:20:31.09900:20:31.109 in like a madman I try to curl them 00:20:33.64900:20:33.659 around a little bit and one particularly 00:20:35.83900:20:35.849 I do with all wire connectors no matter 00:20:37.94000:20:37.950 what's now there I try to point them 00:20:39.28900:20:39.299 upward because if there was ever water 00:20:41.45000:20:41.460 that came in the box I prefer that the 00:20:43.82000:20:43.830 water not go into the connector it's not 00:20:45.82900:20:45.839 always possible to do that's not a 00:20:49.54900:20:49.559 requirement that's just something that 00:20:50.74900:20:50.759 I've done over the years I'm gonna push 00:20:54.91900:20:54.929 this in so one thing that is important 00:20:58.98900:20:58.999 and I'll give you a close-up of this and 00:21:01.87900:21:01.889 these will get pushed in with the cover 00:21:03.32000:21:03.330 a little bit is you're going to see 00:21:05.28900:21:05.299 they're right here right when my little 00:21:08.93000:21:08.940 pinky is that's the screw hole for the 00:21:11.32900:21:11.339 cover so whatever you do you don't want 00:21:13.21900:21:13.229 to leave the wire right over that 00:21:16.25000:21:16.260 that cover you want to make sure you 00:21:18.68000:21:18.690 want to make sure that when you put your 00:21:19.67000:21:19.680 cover on it's going to be able to go 00:21:20.78000:21:20.790 into that screw hole 00:21:32.94000:21:32.95000:21:35.29000:21:35.300 all right cover is installed you need to 00:21:40.70000:21:40.710 put a screw on it and we'll test it out 00:21:58.24000:21:58.250 someone Heat's on you can actually see 00:22:00.80000:22:00.810 that little light as I were to go on 00:22:02.09000:22:02.100 which that means the water is running I 00:22:05.00000:22:05.010 actually have it set to low as you can 00:22:07.58000:22:07.590 see 00:22:09.53000:22:09.540 and for my installation that's fine 00:22:11.83000:22:11.840 because this is only run in a very small 00:22:14.30000:22:14.310 loop if you were running your whole 00:22:15.56000:22:15.570 house and I hope you can hear me talking 00:22:17.33000:22:17.340 over my heat if you run in a whole house 00:22:20.93000:22:20.940 you would likely increase that dial to a 00:22:23.63000:22:23.640 higher speed 00:22:28.33000:22:28.340 so at this point I'm just putting my 00:22:30.22000:22:30.230 hand on the pipe and it feels to me like 00:22:32.83000:22:32.840 this is circulating great so I'm gonna 00:22:34.93000:22:34.940 check it a little bit close to 00:22:36.28000:22:36.290 Philippe's and then we'll go from there 00:22:45.03000:22:45.040 and see anything there 00:22:49.13000:22:49.140 bottom looks good 00:22:52.62000:22:52.630 top looks good 00:22:56.88000:22:56.890 Tom's runnin eats runnin and I think 00:23:00.72000:23:00.730 we're all set thanks for watching please 00:23:03.53900:23:03.549 subscribe for more videos 00:23:06.71000:23:06.72000:23:15.02000:23:15.03000:23:18.57000:23:18.580 you
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