RE: 1 year on, still looking to "HA my heating"

["Paul Gale" <groups2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Trouble is with motorized valves, that you also need to generate a
heating demand too i.e. turn the boiler on when the valve opens - not much
point in having the valve open if there's no hot water flowing! That's what
the Hometronic valves do - open and call for heat.

Paul.



> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 24 April 2007 09:48
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] 1 year on, still looking to "HA my
heating"
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> Yes, I know. It's not really too much of a concern for me.... I
presume
> I can continue to use TRV's on individual radiators?  - Actually, if I
> can still use TRV's, then what's to say I can't use some motorised
> valve
> heads instead, driven directly via Comfort?... - then with even just a
> couple of these, I can simulate some of the "lifestyle"
settings that
> Hometronic offers...
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> As I said before, our house is internally so leaky that the concept of
> zoned control is a bit of a nonsense anyway, - there are only a couple
> of places (the guest bedroom for instance) where it would be of any
use
> to control separately from the rest of the house, - with a remotely
> controllable valve head on the rad in the guest room, I instantly have
> two "lifestyle" settings available...
>
> Paul G.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Jim Noble
> Sent: 24 April 2007 09:25
> To: UKHA_D Group
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] 1 year on, still looking to "HA my
heating"
>
> Paul Gordon wrote:
> > Yes, I would be interested in the UCM, - thus far, Smartfit seems
to
> be
> > the best fit for what I want, but I need to do a little more
research
> > first, just to be certain that it is suitable for use in my
design of
> > heating system. (I can't imagine it wouldn't be, since it's
hardly
> > anything esoteric).
> >
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> One problem with Smartfit is that there's no easy way to do zoned
> heating.
>
> Jim
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