Post by celticwebsolutions on Jan 11, 2014 19:02:53 GMT -5
Hi,
I've got a Powermax 185, it seems to be working well. My issue is we had a conservatory built and had underfloor heating installed in there. They added another heating zone and seperate thermostat to control it, this is where we started having issues.
I was informed the boiler would now need to be set as heating on constant to support the underfloor. So the setup is all house except underfloor on one thermostat with built in timer and the underfloor on another stat with timer. Heating wise this appears to work perfectly. Original rads in House ate only on for set hours during the day, underfloor is on all the time but for different temps at different times of day (19 evenings and down to lower at other times), the actual underfloor heating valve is set around 40 deg c I think.
The he problem is that to get the heating to be on all day I have to set the built in powermax 185 clock to 24hr for central heating, when I do this it automatically sets hot water to 24hr too, it won't let me change the hot water to any other setting with heating on 24hr. My question is hopefully a simple one, is this caused by a poor built in clock / controller or does the boiler not have a valve to control the hot water separately from heating?
My gas consumption has shot up since underfloor went in and I'm hoping its because it's heating the hot water 24/7 which just isn't needed.
Any help and / or suggestions on how to sort this matter would be greatly appreciated.
i look forward to your reply.
Many thanks
Huw.
I've got a Powermax 185, it seems to be working well. My issue is we had a conservatory built and had underfloor heating installed in there. They added another heating zone and seperate thermostat to control it, this is where we started having issues.
I was informed the boiler would now need to be set as heating on constant to support the underfloor. So the setup is all house except underfloor on one thermostat with built in timer and the underfloor on another stat with timer. Heating wise this appears to work perfectly. Original rads in House ate only on for set hours during the day, underfloor is on all the time but for different temps at different times of day (19 evenings and down to lower at other times), the actual underfloor heating valve is set around 40 deg c I think.
The he problem is that to get the heating to be on all day I have to set the built in powermax 185 clock to 24hr for central heating, when I do this it automatically sets hot water to 24hr too, it won't let me change the hot water to any other setting with heating on 24hr. My question is hopefully a simple one, is this caused by a poor built in clock / controller or does the boiler not have a valve to control the hot water separately from heating?
My gas consumption has shot up since underfloor went in and I'm hoping its because it's heating the hot water 24/7 which just isn't needed.
Any help and / or suggestions on how to sort this matter would be greatly appreciated.
i look forward to your reply.
Many thanks
Huw.
