What “Penny Wise & Pound Foolish” says about Domestic Hot Water Solutions
The actual phrase “penny wise, and pound foolish” is often mistakenly credited to Benjamin Franklin, but it actually originated with an Oxford Scholar named Robert Burton in his book, “The Anatomy of Melancholy” written in 1621! Needless to say, in 1621 domestic hot water wasn’t even a thing. It was before the advent of electricity, multi-story distributed hot water systems, and certainly before the advent of modern boilers, computerized boiler controls and mixing valves. And yet the phrase is nowhere more relevant than when it is applied to DHW installations where mixing valves are sometimes omitted for small overall reductions in material cost or piping complexity in a commercial, domestic hot water setting. So here’s “penny wise and pound foolish” as applied to your domestic hot water system . The Purpose of a 3 Way Mixing Valve in DHW In DHW applications using traditional direct-fired storage tank systems, a mixing valve has always been an important part of the overa...