{"id":412,"date":"2021-04-17T09:24:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/knowall.dev19.bigideas.io\/?post_type=ht_kb&#038;p=412"},"modified":"2022-02-26T08:24:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-26T08:24:06","slug":"reverse-osmosis","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/knowledge-base\/reverse-osmosis\/","title":{"rendered":"Is it okay to use reverse osmosis (RO) water with Noritz tankless water heaters?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reverse osmosis water cannot be used with Noritz tankless water heaters. RO water will eat away at minerals in the copper <strong>heat exchanger<\/strong><sup>1<\/sup>. Over time the copper heat exchanger will develop pinhole leaks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Noritz recommends the H2flow or Scaleshield products to effectively mitigate against <strong>scale<sup>2 <\/sup>build<\/strong>-up.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">H2Flow and <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.noritz.com\/upgraded-scale-shield\/\" target=\"_blank\">Scale Shield<\/a> technical Literature can be found at <a href=\"http:\/\/support.noritz.com\/technical-literature\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">http:\/\/support.noritz.com\/technical-literature<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Scale<\/strong><sup>2<\/sup><br>A hard mineral coating which forms on the surfaces of water piping. Scaling is more prevalent in areas with high water hardness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>heat exchanger<\/strong><sup>1<\/sup><br>A device used to transfer thermal energy between two or more fluids (e.g. air, water, oil). The fluids are typically separated and not allowed to mix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Applicable Models<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Models:<\/strong> ALL MODELS<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reverse osmosis water cannot be used with Noritz tankless water heaters. RO water will eat away at minerals in the copper heat exchanger1. Over time the copper heat exchanger will develop pinhole leaks. Noritz recommends the H2flow or Scaleshield products to effectively mitigate against scale2 build-up. H2Flow and Scale Shield&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[5],"ht-kb-tag":[21],"class_list":["post-412","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-general-questions","ht_kb_tag-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":651,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/412\/revisions\/651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=412"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/help.noritz.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}