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Rinnai Smart Hot Water Cylinders Have a 'Vacation Mode' For Your Summer Holiday

Tuesday 12 December 2017, 7:02PM

By Beckie Wright

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If you don’t already have a Rinnai Smart Ready hot water cylinder, you need to think seriously about getting one, particularly if you are going away on holiday this summer. In ‘vacation mode’, the Rinnai Smart Cylinder will keep the water at a minimum temperature (6°C) to save power. This will also prevent the water from freezing in colder areas.

All you need to do is simply select the number of days you will be away for and the Rinnai Smart Cylinder will handle the rest. After the specified time it will automatically revert to the last mode you had it on meaning  you can have a hot shower as soon as you get in the door!

Whatever your bathroom habits, the Rinnai Smart Cylinder will love you unconditionally, because this revolutionary hot water cylinder actually learns a household’s behaviour and only heats what's needed, saving you on water heating.

The way that a traditional electric hot water cylinder works means that you are paying to heat all of the water in your cylinder 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year. The new Rinnai Smart Cylinder has a smart thermostat which actually learns the pattern of hot water use of your house, and then only heats the water when it knows it's going to be needed, typically saving 10 - 15% on water heating costs.  It's easy to use too with an LCD control pad, simply set and forget.

The smart cylinder has three modes that can be selected using the control pad; IQ mode (smart learning mode), manual mode, and vacation mode. Set, forget and save. When in this mode the Rinnai Smart Cylinder™ will learn one week of your household’s hot water usage behaviour.

After the first week the Rinnai Smart Cylinder will apply the savings algorithm and only heat water in the cylinder when it knows it will be needed. The Rinnai Smart Cylinder will constantly monitor the household water usage and update the saving algorithm continuously, ensuring that it is only ever heating water to meet demand, and aminimum hot water availability is guaranteed on the level of comfort selected.

To find out more about heat pumps, hot water heat pumps and home heating please go to www.rinnai.co.nz .