shenandoah75
Active Member
I contacted Rinnai on this and they were very nice and polite in getting me an answer to whether there were any plans to build a serial interface to their two-wire protocol... Answer was:
"As of right now Rinnai is not planning on incorporating this. I will pass your comment along and perhaps if market demand becomes great enough, a change may be incorporated."
Maybe i'm the only one who would find this useful, but i see a few justifications:
1) i don't need to put a (proprietary) panel at every location i might like to change the temp without walking to the laundry room (master bath for shower/whirlpool , kids bath, kitchen, laundry)
2) with the lock out feature they have on their controls, this could be a real nice safety feature to put into RS-232. for example, if no motion in master bath, or via a function key when leaving, etc, have the elk initiate a lock from that unit setting the temp at 110/120 degrees to prevent burns.
3) shut the unit off in vacation mode
Anyway - if there others who use Rinnai or think this is a plus, please chime in and i can direct them to this thread
thx
-brad
"As of right now Rinnai is not planning on incorporating this. I will pass your comment along and perhaps if market demand becomes great enough, a change may be incorporated."
Maybe i'm the only one who would find this useful, but i see a few justifications:
1) i don't need to put a (proprietary) panel at every location i might like to change the temp without walking to the laundry room (master bath for shower/whirlpool , kids bath, kitchen, laundry)
2) with the lock out feature they have on their controls, this could be a real nice safety feature to put into RS-232. for example, if no motion in master bath, or via a function key when leaving, etc, have the elk initiate a lock from that unit setting the temp at 110/120 degrees to prevent burns.
3) shut the unit off in vacation mode
Anyway - if there others who use Rinnai or think this is a plus, please chime in and i can direct them to this thread
thx
-brad