Our education programming has now expanded into instructive videos featuring National Training Manager Bob "Hot Rod" Rohr. Bob details how the products are designed, explains how they function, reviews how to use them in application, and gives important pointers concerning installation, operation and maintenance.
Balancing Valves
QuickSetter™ - Balancing Valves with Flow Meter Play length: 3:39 minutes
How the patent pending manual balancing valve works, why pressure transducers are not needed to set or verify flow rate, and how to apply the valve in a heating or chilled water system.
FlowCal™ - Pressure Independent Balancing Valves Play length: 4:27 minutes
How the patented automatic flow balancing valve works, what allows it to operate so quietly, and how to apply the valve in a heating or chilled water system.
Flow Switches
Universal Hydronic Flow Switch Play length: 5:05 minutes
How the universal flow switch works in piping from 1" to 8" diameter, how the bellows construction makes it more reliable than other switch choices, and how to apply the switch in a heating or chilled water system.
Radiator Valves
Thermostatic Radiator Valve Control Heads Play length: 7:09 minutes
How the control head is constructed, why the liquid filled bellows is advantageous to a gas or wax filled bellows, and how to apply the head to a valve body or directly onto a panel style radiator.
Thermostatic Radiator Valve Bodies Play length: 6:31 minutes
How the valve body is constructed, why an especially strong spring allows for reliable operation with no "off season valve stick", and how to connect the valve to a heat emitter.
Thermostatic Radiator Valves for Panel Style Radiators Play length: 6:31 minutes
How to assemble a control head to a panel radiator, how to adjust temperature control, and how to securely connect supply and return pipes to the radiator.
Zone Valves
Z-One™ - Spring Return Zone Valves Play length: 10:58 minutes
How the valve is constructed, how to wire to a control, how the valve prevents mechanical hysteresis wear when used as a modulating valve, and how to apply the valve in a heating or chilled water system.
Manifolds
TwistFlow™ - Hydronic Distribution Manifolds Play length: 12:32 minutes
A brief review of Caleffi's 3 major manifold product lines and accessories, how the manifolds are constructed, a review of industry exclusive features, and how to apply in a heating or chilled water system.
GeoCal™ - Manifolds for Ground Source Loops Play length: 11:33 minutes
A brief explanation of benefits versus traditional manifold techniques, how the manifold is constructed, a summary of labor saving accessories, and how to apply the manifold in a geothermal system.
A brief explanation of manual and automatic air vents, how they work and how they are constructed, and how to apply vents in a heating or chilled water system.
Air Separators, Dirt Separators and Hydraulic Separators
Discal® - Air Separators Play length: 10:09 minutes
How they work and how they are constructed, what unique design features make them extremely reliable, and how to apply them in a heating or chilled water system.
DirtCal® and DirtMag® - Dirt Separators Play length: 8:29 minutes
How they work and how they are constructed, what configuration to use for different applications, how they perform compared to other available choices for dirt elimination.
DiscalDirt® - Combination Air & Dirt Separators Play length: 4:47 minutes
The benefit of using one combination device instead of two, how they work and how they are constructed, and a demonstration using an actual "mini system".
HydroCal™- Hydraulic Separators and Combination Air, Dirt & Hydraulic Separators Play length: 7:01 minutes
Hydraulic separation for heating systems of 100,00 btu/hr or less. The benefits of this exclusive hydraulic separator that has prefabricated secondary supply and return header built in.
Automatic Filling Units and Backflow Preventers
AutoFill™ - Automatic Hydronic Fill Valves and Backflow Preventers Play length: 6:42 minutes
The popular "set it and forget it" pressure reducing valve exclusively by Caleffi. How the valve fills a hydronic system automatically AND quickly. Also, a dissection of Caleffi's double check backflow preventer to illustrate how they function.
How to protect wood burning boilers, cast iron boilers and any other non-condensing boiler from sustained flue gas condensation formation. How the protection valves are constructed and how to apply them in hydronic heating systems.
Solar Components
StarMax V™ - Solar Thermal Collectors Play length: 10:01 minutes
Caleffi's patent pending flat plate solar collector with exclusive 5th port, sloped upper and lower headers, and extremely accurate temperature sensing. Overview of design and demonstration of how the collectors are used in drain back and pumped glycol applications.
DualStud™ - Roof Flashing Kit for Solar Thermal Mounting Play length: 6:44 minutes
