Quick Radiator Question.

[Firegod]

Hey, just having a bit of back and forth on a radiator I purchased. Everything is good, no hassle with the reseller, but I just wanted to confirm for my own sanity that what I'm saying is correct. lol

So the rad arrived but no info online to say it had to be plumbed in a specific way. Opened it up to find a yellow sticker on the bottom left corner saying diverter (with an arrow). I am right in saying that this means the rad has to be plumbed with the input flow from the left only. It cannot accept input from the right, due to the diverter?

My pipes for this particular rad i'm replacing heat from the right hand side first. Not left.

I reached out direct to the manufacturer who are confusing me as they said that, yes there'll be a sticker for flow marked but then they said actually only our vertical rads use a diverter and not our horizontal ones. Yet I have a horizontal rad from them... with a sticker on.

Like I say, there's no beef here and I am allowed to return said item if i want. I just want to triple check I'm not wrong in what I'm thinking here before I send back a perfectly usable rad.

Cheers.

 

[Firegod]

Oh and also they have said that:

"...I have been advised that you can pipe from right to left instead of left to right but it just means the diverter is further away from the flow."

So I am confused. hah!

Any ideas?

 

[Murphy]

I could be wrong (not a plumber) but i thought divert valves were basically just valves with baffles behind them to deflect the incoming water in various directions. AFAIK you could plumb the flow in whatever direction you want.

"...I have been advised that you can pipe from right to left instead of left to right but it just means the diverter is further away from the flow."

I think better wording on that would be the DV would become infective.