Make sure you have ground wire for the unit. Do not connect the ground wire to gas or water pipes,
lightning rods, or telephone grounding lines. If the unit is not properly grounded, there may be a risk
to get an electric shock.
Make sure to use circuit breakers (ground fault interrupter, isolating switch (+B fuse), and molded
case circuit breaker) with the specified capacity (refer to the machine label). If the circuit breaker
capacity is larger than the specified capacity, breakdown or fire may result.
1.4 Before starting the test run
Caution
Before starting operation, check wheher all protective parts are correctly installed or not. Make sure not to get
injured by touching high voltage parts.
Do not touch any switch with wet hands. There may be a risk to get an electric shock.
When turning off the unit, make sure to wait at least 5 minutes before switching off the main power.
Otherwise, it may cause breakdown.
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Introduction
Thermopod is a Solar Assisted Heat Pump System, it is designed to transmit thermal energy from the free natural
elements into water to achieve water heating for home use. The system can either be supplied with new cylinder or
be altered to work with user’s existing cylinders, turning the existing cylinder into a hot water storage tank.
The system is designed to heat the water in a standard 200 Litres cylinder up to 53°C all the time, and 60°C once a
week for anti-legionella. The unit is set to a default (can be adjusted) temperature as 53°C, when the temperature in
the cylinder drops by 5°C, the system will automatically switch on to heat the temperature back to the default
temperature.
In addition, there is an Energy saving mode, when switch this mode on, the system will automatically heat the water
to 3 different target temperatures at 3 different time. The 3 target temperatures and duration of time can be adjusted
according to users’ actual need.
Thermopod system gathers all advantages from common heat pumps. It will absorb energy from nature environment,
which is continuously renewable, by a very small consumption of electricity via a kind of medium, and generate
several times of thermal energy to heat the water.
Thermopod Components
Key Components
1. Thermopod Panels
2. Thermopod unit
3. Refrigeration Pipe
4. Standard Fitting
5. Water Fitting
6. Triangular Mounting Brackets
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