FUGO Thermostatic Mixing Valve, 1/2 NPT Solid Brass Temperature Control Valve

This valve really works well, it allowed me to turn up my water heater without scalding everyone in the house, basically increasing our water heater capacity without having to get a new water heater. I just plumbed this in right after the water heater so all of the hot water in the house goes through it then I can turn the water heater up to 130 and set this to 114 or so and now we never run out of hot water and no one gets scalded. It was pretty easy to install, at least if you have pex running to your water heater, you just need 3 npt to pex adapters and a pex tee to splice it in. So far it has worked amazingly well, and it did not seem to effect water pressure too much. We will see how long it lasts, I have hard well water so scale and corrosion can be a problem, but at this price $28 even if it just lasts a year or 2 I will be happy with it.

You may need a valve for the shower head.

Used this for my hose bib for washing my dogs. It works great and I haven’t had any issues with it.

Nice valve for temperature control

I got this thermostatic valve to install in my outdoor shower which has now moved to the back burner until I get time to finish it. However, I wanted to test the valve now rather than wait until I finish the project. I connected a small electric point of use tankless water heater on the hot side of the valve and a garden hose on the cold side, with some spare plumbing parts I had on hand for the purpose of this test. After letting the water run for 2 minutes I tested the water temp using an instant read digital temperature gauge at 3 different temperatures, 95, 100 and 113 degrees. Bearing in mind, I could not calibrate the temp gauge, and this is just a basic test. At 95 and 113 degrees the reading was spot on with my temp gauge. With the valve set on 100 degrees my temp gauge read 101 degrees. For a non-scientific, clandestine setup the temperatures were remarkably close on all three samples and was able to replicate the same results on the second attempt. While I am a retired R&D lab tech, this test was not done in a laboratory under a controlled environment, still, the accuracy of this FUGO thermostatic mixing valve proved to be extremely accurate, which surprised the hell out of me.

Inexpensive and effective. Purchased this to temper water for an outside spigot. It’s possible that it’s reducing the flow more than I’d like but the temperature settings work as expected. Has only been in use about a month so I can’t speak on longevity.

It's installed perfectly...yet when you raise the desired emperature, the water pressure drops to near zero.

funciona perfecto! calza correctamente