Hi newbie to the forum and a serial tinkerer 😊
House is currently under a major and long running renovation and I have started to research what systems to use for my home automation, however have to finish my little heating project first.
Just a Victorian terraced house but I have installed underfloor heating in all downstairs rooms and in the bathroom, and then separately zoned radiators in the the other rooms. This is all controlled by a heatmiser system using wall mounted thermostats in each room. It all works well
My little project at moment is too reduce the boiler operating temperature when the heating is on ( or raise the boiler temperature when the hot water is on) .
Reasoning is. To achieve maximum effficency of boiler to operate at 50c rather than the mixing valve on the underfloor heating manifold doing all the work.
I realise a lot of modern boilers ( mine is 5 years old) automatically do this however all the research I have done indicates that my boiler cannot do this , it's a Worcester system boiler green star 40 CDi
My "cunning plan " is to somehow automate the rotation of the boiler temperature control using a servo or similar attached to the dial on the front of the boiler. Not one to ever try and reinvent the wheel and my long winded question is really simple, is there already something like this on the market ( googling has not brought up any results so far) as I would much prefer to use something that is tried and tested rather than on site engineered by myself.😊
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated
House is currently under a major and long running renovation and I have started to research what systems to use for my home automation, however have to finish my little heating project first.
Just a Victorian terraced house but I have installed underfloor heating in all downstairs rooms and in the bathroom, and then separately zoned radiators in the the other rooms. This is all controlled by a heatmiser system using wall mounted thermostats in each room. It all works well
My little project at moment is too reduce the boiler operating temperature when the heating is on ( or raise the boiler temperature when the hot water is on) .
Reasoning is. To achieve maximum effficency of boiler to operate at 50c rather than the mixing valve on the underfloor heating manifold doing all the work.
I realise a lot of modern boilers ( mine is 5 years old) automatically do this however all the research I have done indicates that my boiler cannot do this , it's a Worcester system boiler green star 40 CDi
My "cunning plan " is to somehow automate the rotation of the boiler temperature control using a servo or similar attached to the dial on the front of the boiler. Not one to ever try and reinvent the wheel and my long winded question is really simple, is there already something like this on the market ( googling has not brought up any results so far) as I would much prefer to use something that is tried and tested rather than on site engineered by myself.😊
Any advice would be gratefully appreciated
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