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19th February 2019,
11:38 PM
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HR92 vs Tado motor volume?
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Nest was in the news recently for exactly the same reason. Their cloud service went down and people woke up to cold houses.
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19th February 2019,
11:35 PM
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UFH - EvoHome and reluctant plumber
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if the entire manifold is serving one heating zone, then electric actuators are completely unnecessary. They are only needed if individual runs are...
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19th February 2019,
12:16 PM
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UFH - EvoHome and reluctant plumber
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Most manifolds won't come with electric actuators. So it gets simpler. You just wire the BDR91 to open the zone valve feeding the manifold, that in...
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11th February 2019,
09:06 AM
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Viessmann / Honeywell OpenTherm issue
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Yes that will work, but that adds another link to the chain. You need to then send the Max Flow temperature OT command to the Viessmann.
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10th February 2019,
09:53 PM
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Viessmann / Honeywell OpenTherm issue
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Viessmann with Honeywell OT will make your boiler reach for the lofty highs of 85+°C. I don't think you want that. Go back to using a BDR91 as your...
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10th February 2019,
01:57 PM
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Vaillant 831 Eco Tec Plus combi with open therm
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Do you have an indication to know what the current heat output is? I was only able to derive this once I was monitoring the eBUS.
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10th February 2019,
01:28 PM
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Vaillant 831 Eco Tec Plus combi with open therm
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In my case, my boiler was specced too large. My Alpha2 pump and the 22mm heating loop are not man enough to take the heat away from the boiler fast...
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10th February 2019,
11:19 AM
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UFH - EvoHome and reluctant plumber
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You don't even need to invest in electronic actuators. Just leave the manifold manual ones on. As long as each circuit run is about the same length...
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10th February 2019,
11:14 AM
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Vaillant 831 Eco Tec Plus combi with open therm
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Heating Control
I have a 438 which doesn't have the Auto KW setting. I have the boiler set to 18KW max. And most of the time it never uses that. To my pleasant...
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7th February 2019,
12:52 PM
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HR92's: A rant
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I always thought that doing away with the grill on the HR80 behind which is the temperature probe, was a step backwards on the HR92. I have used...
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4th February 2019,
05:03 PM
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Evohome : All Room Setting
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I too have a custom quick action that takes all rooms to 25C. Not that I ever want it to get there. I also comes handy when you need the system...
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4th February 2019,
12:26 PM
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How to read the Vaillant eBus
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I can confirm that the Arduino circuit mentioned above works absolutely fine. But is READ only. So you will get the ebus data. You will still need...
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1st February 2019,
08:54 PM
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EvoHome with a single HR92 radiator thermostat
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You can absolutely do this. But then you've just bought a very expensive room thermostat.
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27th January 2019,
03:47 PM
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Hacking modulating boilers with fake outdoor sensor
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Heating Control
Once you can listen to the Evohome messages, the zone valve devices already have the Heat demand aggregated according to the Honeywell algorithms.
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26th January 2019,
10:44 AM
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Advice on Boiler efficiency
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Whenever you run the boiler, the created heat has to go somewhere. So you need to decide, it either goes into the tank, the radiators or infact cycle...
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24th January 2019,
10:46 PM
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Advice on Boiler efficiency
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The answer to this question is going to be how cold the HW tank is before the HW cycle and how fast you want it to heat up.
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24th January 2019,
10:43 PM
bruce_miranda
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Hacking modulating boilers with fake outdoor sensor
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does your boiler support any kind of integration. I have done what you are setting out to do. I.e. fool the boiler with an external temperature...
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24th January 2019,
10:37 PM
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eBus monitoring
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Heating Control
All I would add is that, one of the best uses of being hooked on the eBus and Evohome, is being able to vary the flow temperature when there is HW...
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