Re: Interfacing to heating...

["Raymond Kelly" <raymondtkelly@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Phil,
Have a look at http://www.heatmiser.co.uk as they
have various control
options.
I must admit never come across one of those before and it looks
interesting.
Love the name - wonder how much one of these beasts go for. Best find out
who supplied/installed.
I am also on the 'other' group
http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/UK_Selfbuild/
where there are many chats
about heating and control of.


On 26/11/2007, Phil Harris <phil@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   OK - just put in an offer on a house today and that's been accepted
so
> time
> to start thinking about controlling the place a bit.
>
> It's a recent build (only four years old) and has one of these ...
>
> http://www.gledhill.net/water-storage/2000-range-index/gulfstream1a.htm
>
> ( http://tinyurl.com/yuf896 )
>
> ... fitted as the boiler. I've seen that there's a standard wall
mounted
> thermostat fitted in the place but I'm hoping to get a bit cleverer
with
> the
> control than that (of course).
>
> Has anyone here controlled one of those boilers externally before? I
know
> I
> can just have the timeclock "on" all the time and tap in to
the thermostat
>
> switching line to give a "demand" signal but I'd like to be
a bit more
> elegant than just leaving the boiler "on" all the time and
simply
> switching
> the thermostat line if possible so does anyone have any experience of
> driving one of these via an external system?
>
> Similarly has anyone come across any RF controlled TRV actuators that
can
> be
> triggered by either contact closures or serial port commands? Ideally
> something like the HomeTronic RF actuators and probably with a minimum
of
> 8
> channels (it's not a big house) but it's going to be a bugger to get
> cables
> to the rads to switch hard wired actuators.
>
> Phil
>
>
>


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