"Clever" controller for central heating?

"Clever" controller for central heating?

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Deva Link

26,934 posts

245 months

Saturday 15th January 2011
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Ferg said:
If it's a gravity hot water system the programmer should be set to always heat the water when the central heating comes on. It sounds like the programmer is the wrong type.
I don't recognise that programmer but they usually have a wire link or switch to convert them so they're suitable for either fully pumped (both CH & DHW) or gravity HW systems.

The bit about the CH circulating cold water is odd though.

smn159

12,654 posts

217 months

Saturday 15th January 2011
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Wired up and all now seems to be working OK. Turned out that the yellow wire was live, the blue neutral and the red was the feed to the boiler.

Yellow is only live when the old controller is calling for heat so I've set it to run continually, with the CM927 taking care of the switching.

Redmax

752 posts

213 months

Tuesday 18th January 2011
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smn159 said:
Wired up and all now seems to be working OK. Turned out that the yellow wire was live, the blue neutral and the red was the feed to the boiler.

Yellow is only live when the old controller is calling for heat so I've set it to run continually, with the CM927 taking care of the switching.
I'm trying to do the same as you've done except I've gone for the CM907 which is the non-wireless version and my yellow and red wires on the existing thermostat are the opposite to yours.

On the new thermostat, did you wire the permanently live to A, the neutral to B and the call for heat to C?

Cheers

Ferg

15,242 posts

257 months

Tuesday 18th January 2011
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Redmax said:
On the new thermostat, did you wire the permanently live to A, the neutral to B and the call for heat to C?
If you do this it will blow the PCB. Don't get a neutral in it. Make that safe and switch the other two with A and B. Either way around.

Redmax

752 posts

213 months

Tuesday 18th January 2011
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Ferg said:
Redmax said:
On the new thermostat, did you wire the permanently live to A, the neutral to B and the call for heat to C?
If you do this it will blow the PCB. Don't get a neutral in it. Make that safe and switch the other two with A and B. Either way around.
Great, thanks Ferg.

smn159

12,654 posts

217 months

Tuesday 18th January 2011
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I copied the diagram in the installation manual and went for perm live to L, link from second L to A and boiler feed to B. So yes, live to A and boiler feed to B works fine.

beer