Hello all,
It's getting warm here in Italy, so I begun thinking what to do with my EvoHome, since I set it up this winter and didn't really think of the best way to pass summer.
At first I thought to leave it alone, just kicking the "Off" quick action in, and switch my combi boiler to DHW only (summer mode). Simple and quick.
That would do the trick but my HR92s would then be fully shut, and I read that it should be better to leave TRVs fully open when the heating's off for a long time (more than a few days) to relax opening coils as a main reason, but also because that would allow me bleeding/rinsing the full pipework and radiators.
Another possibility I was thinking about was switching HR92s and DT92s off by removing batteries but leave the controller and mains-powered components in place. Then I could just leave all my HR92s mounted, without batteries, opening radiators by manually turning the black dial. That would achieve some battery saving as well. This way I could keep using my smartphone to check out temperature remotely (that one measured by the controller intrnal sensor, at least), but would trigger a lot of errors in the controller log and email alert, I think, since all other sensors and actuators would be offline. Would this make the system "forget" what was learned or bindings as well?
So I began wondering whether to turn everything off, take batteries out of HR92s and DT92s, and unplug/remove batteries from the controller until the next autumn. Being the controller itself off, there would be no error flooding in the controller nor emails, if I disconnect the RFG100 as well (just one fiirst mail to tell me that my system is offline).
But the question about temperature curve and binding comes back... and, what would happen to the boiler controlling relay (BDR91 or R8810)? I read somewhere in the documents about an emergency setting that would turn heating on at 20% (time or power, that it's the same in TPI environment). No big deal if I switch my boiler into "summer mode" (DHW only), I think, ...or I am missing something?
Are there any recommendations from Honeywell? What are you doing when you don't need your heating system in summer?
Thanks for sharing...
It's getting warm here in Italy, so I begun thinking what to do with my EvoHome, since I set it up this winter and didn't really think of the best way to pass summer.
At first I thought to leave it alone, just kicking the "Off" quick action in, and switch my combi boiler to DHW only (summer mode). Simple and quick.
That would do the trick but my HR92s would then be fully shut, and I read that it should be better to leave TRVs fully open when the heating's off for a long time (more than a few days) to relax opening coils as a main reason, but also because that would allow me bleeding/rinsing the full pipework and radiators.
Another possibility I was thinking about was switching HR92s and DT92s off by removing batteries but leave the controller and mains-powered components in place. Then I could just leave all my HR92s mounted, without batteries, opening radiators by manually turning the black dial. That would achieve some battery saving as well. This way I could keep using my smartphone to check out temperature remotely (that one measured by the controller intrnal sensor, at least), but would trigger a lot of errors in the controller log and email alert, I think, since all other sensors and actuators would be offline. Would this make the system "forget" what was learned or bindings as well?
So I began wondering whether to turn everything off, take batteries out of HR92s and DT92s, and unplug/remove batteries from the controller until the next autumn. Being the controller itself off, there would be no error flooding in the controller nor emails, if I disconnect the RFG100 as well (just one fiirst mail to tell me that my system is offline).
But the question about temperature curve and binding comes back... and, what would happen to the boiler controlling relay (BDR91 or R8810)? I read somewhere in the documents about an emergency setting that would turn heating on at 20% (time or power, that it's the same in TPI environment). No big deal if I switch my boiler into "summer mode" (DHW only), I think, ...or I am missing something?
Are there any recommendations from Honeywell? What are you doing when you don't need your heating system in summer?
Thanks for sharing...
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