Re: Newbie on centralheating/hot water X10?

["Martyn Wendon" <martynwendon@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lots of good discussions on the AH forums at
http://www.automatedhome.co.uk/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=13

Some of what you're asking depends on the type of system you have, e.g.
fully pumped, zoned, gravity fed water / pumped central heating, etc....

There's a variety of solutions, personally I'm a big fan of the HouseHeat
kit (Conrad, ELV, etc) as coupled with my Vaillant Combi Boiler and weather
compensator it's drastically improved our energy usage...



Martyn

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andy" <andysideas@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, February 03, 2010 3:53 AM
Subject: [ukha_d] Newbie on centralheating/hot water X10?


> Hi,
>
> Appreciate a lot of you guys are home auotmation pros here, but I need
> some
> advice.
>
> I have been a member of this list and watch the home automation with
the
> dream.. however I am looking at dipping my toes for the first time.
>
> I need to buy a new central heating and hot water controller. It needs
to
> have regular controls, but I want to be able to control it via my PC,
and
> remotely when not at home (e.g turn heating on early or off if we are
> away)
>
> I am also looking for ideas around the control of hot water. We have a
> mains
> pressure tank, and currently have the hot water on for 2 hours in the
> morning and evening. However, the water remains hot all day and I am
sure
> most nights we do not need it on in the evenings. How could I have a
more
> intelligent system that can almost tell me how much estimated water is
> still
> hot?
>
> For example, assume hot water comes on in the morning for 2 hours. By
5pm
> there is still hot water, but we have no idea how much is left so the
> existing crap timer comes on at 6 for another 2 hours and then again
at
> 5am.
> I am sure this is wasteful
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>
>
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>
>
> Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>



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