Product Engineer Links Two Tankless Water Heaters in Just Six Seconds at K/BIS
 June 18, 2007 | Montgomery, AL--Tony Casillas visited the Rheem exhibit at the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show (K/BIS) to learn more about Rheem Tankless Water Heaters, but he ended up winning one, too. Casillas, a product engineer with Product Solutions Inc. in Costa Mesa, California, posted the fastest time in the Rheem EZ-Link Contest during K/BIS, held May 8-10 in Las Vegas. The contest was designed to show how quick and easy it is to link two Rheem Tankless Water Heaters so they can function as one. Casillas made his connection in only 5.92 seconds, the fastest of any contestant at the three-day show.
The media joined in the fun as well. Alex Cheimets of ApplianceAdvisor.com in Arlington, Massachusetts, achieved a “best-in-class” time of 8.35 seconds. Like Casillas, Cheimets received a new Rheem tankless water heater and the cost of installation, up to $1,000.
EZ-Link Technology from Rheem Water Heating enables installers to meet the hot-water demands of homes with up to six bathrooms or expand existing Rheem tankless systems to handle the needs of growing families.
For example:
• A customer with a four-bathroom home can install two RTG-53 series water heaters with an EZ-Link cable to meet his or her hot water demands.
• When building a new bath, kitchen or home addition, a Rheem tankless user would not need to replace the existing unit. He simply would connect a second Rheem tankless water heater to absorb the additional hot-water demand – all without taking up an excessive amount of space.
“A typical tankless water heater is about 12 inches wide by 24 inches high, weighs about 50 pounds and can be mounted on either an interior or exterior wall, depending on the climate,” says Jim Cika, Rheem Specialty Water Heating Manager. “As a result, most spaces can easily accommodate the additional unit.”
For high-volume applications, the MIC-180 manifold control allows installers to link up to 20 Rheem tankless water heaters (all the same model) in a manifold configuration.
RHEEM MANUFACTURING COMPANY, headquartered in Atlanta, is a leading worldwide provider of total comfort systems including water heaters, heating and air conditioning equipment, pool and spa heaters, and boilers. Rheem Water Heating, which produces tank-type, tankless and solar units for residential and commercial applications, maintains manufacturing operations in Montgomery and Eagan, Minnesota, as well as two facilities in Mexico: Nuevo Laredo and Mexicali. The division also operates a Canadian sales and distribution facility in Hamilton, Ontario.
Contact:
Laura Butler
Marketing Communications Manager
laura.butler@rheem.com
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