I have my heating controlled by Cortex with an upstairs radiator zone and individual zones down stair heated by UFH. The control is way better than achieved by the standard controls but I was wondering how other people had theirs set-up.
For the 2 upstairs floors I have a single HVAC zone at the moment with the temperature averaged between the room sensors. Control is "on/off" with a minimum duration of 20 minutes.
In the UFH zones it’s a 30 minute minimum period (the floors take a long time to react).
All the HVAC objects are connected to delayed occupancy set at 5 minutes. This is generally fine but as there are no doors between kitchen and family room an active parent in the kitchen can suppress heating demand in the family room if the kids a in front of the TV - I like this feature!
How water is timed as I do not have a tank thermometer.
One thing I have observed is that a traditional room-stat setting is really an average with large over and under shoots. The HVAC object's temp is the minimum, but with much less (approx 1C) overshoot.
I am happy but wondering how to improve further. What is other people's experience and with so many options to tweak what have others found most successful optimisations?
Thanks
JonS
For the 2 upstairs floors I have a single HVAC zone at the moment with the temperature averaged between the room sensors. Control is "on/off" with a minimum duration of 20 minutes.
In the UFH zones it’s a 30 minute minimum period (the floors take a long time to react).
All the HVAC objects are connected to delayed occupancy set at 5 minutes. This is generally fine but as there are no doors between kitchen and family room an active parent in the kitchen can suppress heating demand in the family room if the kids a in front of the TV - I like this feature!
How water is timed as I do not have a tank thermometer.
One thing I have observed is that a traditional room-stat setting is really an average with large over and under shoots. The HVAC object's temp is the minimum, but with much less (approx 1C) overshoot.
I am happy but wondering how to improve further. What is other people's experience and with so many options to tweak what have others found most successful optimisations?
Thanks
JonS
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