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HTP Superstor SSU-45CB piping on EK-1 Standard

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Hello all,

I have an EK-1 standard rear clean-out with heat exchanger that needs a new hot water tank.

I have a brand new HTP superstor SSU-45CB tank (no indirect coil) that my folks didn't end up using when they switched over to whole house heat pump setup.

Question is how best to plumb it since EK's diagram is pretty much opposite of HTP's diagram. EK wants a cold draw off the bottom and a dip tube into the top for hot return. The HTP only has side ports at bottom and maybe 1.5 feet up and shows hot return on bottom of tank.

My thought is to pipe the hot return into the top side port on the HTP to maintain a little stratification and or maybe add a dip tube into the top port but I'm not sure if a horizontal dip tube would be beneficial.

Thoughts on piping this tank? Thanks!

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