The HouseHeat
BoilerConnect is
an
intelligent boiler controller
that acts as the communication between your boiler and your Househeat
Room Thermostats. The BoilerConnect boosts the efficiency of your
heating system by solving the problem of the boiler and circulation
pump operating continuously. By listening to the data transmitted
wirelessly between the room thermostats and the valve motors for up to
ten rooms or zone, it is able to
regulate
the output of the boiler to match demand, and also to
control the heating circulation pump.
Automate your boiler to burn only when it is required
In automatic mode, BoilerConnect compares the transmitted data from the
Room Thermostats (i.e. percentage opening of the radiator valves) to a
threshold value on a minute-by minute basis and switches its output
relay on or off correspondingly. Manual
switching by the user is also possible. On many heating systems the
circulation pump operates
continuously regardless of the actual heating demand of the building
and are therefore energy-inefficient. BoilerConnect is
able to control both the boiler and the
circulation pump to ensure that maximum cost savings are
achieved.
BoilerConnect is able to
monitor the wireless data communication between
the FHT 80B
Room Thermostats
and FHZ 1000
HouseMaster (if
installed) and FHT 8V
Motor
Valves i.e. all HouseHeat system components. BoilerConnect is
able to recognise if wireless signal reception is lost
for whatever reason and depending on the specific configuration,
intelligently switches into
safe mode.
Integration of BoilerConnect with a HouseHeat system is achieved by
simple registration of the HouseHeat Wireless Room Thermostats
installed in the system. The display of the device shows both the
status of each room thermostat
as well as the switched output of BoilerConnect and other useful
operational information.
The
IP-65 housing allows
BoilerConnect to be fitted in a damp
environment. The system operates in the highly secure 868 MHz frequency
band.
Control the temperature of each room independently
At its simplest, HouseHeat consists of a thermostat unit that you mount
on the wall of your room, which
communicates
wirelessly with a
motorised valve that you install on your radiator. When the temperature
of the room reaches the level you have set, the valve will turn the
radiator off, and when the temperature of the room starts to drop
again, the
valve turns the radiator
back on.
If you have more than one radiator in a room, you can buy additional
valves, and the thermostat will talk wirelessly to all of them. You can
then repeat this setup (one wireless thermostat and one or more
radiator valves) in each room of your house and they will all work
independently. The thermostat unit contains a clock, which allows you
to
set each room to have
different
temperatures at different
times of the day.
The valve motors are designed to
fit nearly
all thermostatic
radiator valves. The process of removing the top of the existing
radiator valve and screwing on the new motorised valve is simple,
quick, and needs no plumbing skills. If your radiators do not have
thermostatic radiator valves then you will need to install these first
(which is a short job for a plumber).
HouseHeat can cut your heating bill substantially
The benefit of HouseHeat is that it will control the temperature of
each room in which it is installed without any intervention by you. Ask
yourself
how often you adjust the
settings on your radiator. Do you
turn down the temperature settings in each room at night and then turn
them back up again in the morning? With the built in timer the
HouseHeat can allow the temperature of the room to fall to a lower
level at night (saving you money) and then bring it back up again in
the morning. The system can be set so you have more warmth in the
bedroom at night, and more warmth in the living room during the day.
All of these changes reduce the amount of time that your boiler is
burning fuel to heat parts of your house unnecessarily.
Thermostatic Radiator Valves were a big step forward from manual (tap
style) radiator valves, but they have some big flaws.
- Firstly, they measure the temperature right next to the
radiator. This measurement is
influenced by the heat of the radiator,
and it may be very different from the temperature of the room where you
are sitting or sleeping.
- The second problem is that thermostatic
radiator valves
still need to be adjusted manually. Can you tell what
temperature your
room will be at if you set your thermostatic radiator valves at setting
"3"?
- If you have more than one radiator in the room it is
difficult to know how to adjust them
best to give you the right room
temperature.
- How many of us turn down the
radiators in the downstairs
rooms before going to bed in order to save energy and then back
up
again in the morning?
The HouseHeat products solve all of these problems with a
simple and quick replacement of the thermostatic radiator valve head
with a motorised valve head and a separate wall mounted thermostat
unit.
Will HouseHeat fit my existing thermostatic radiator valves?
You will normally be able to
mount the HouseHeat Valve Motor on to the valve body without need of an
adaptor. However, if you find you cannot do this, we can supply
universal adaptors which will enable you to
mount the Valve Motor on almost any
thermostatic
valve available on the
UK market. See the
valve
compatibility chart here.
Please note that in order to fit the HouseHeat Wireless Valve Motor on
to the thermostatic valve body,
there
must be a minimum distance of 30mm between the edge of the radiator and
the centre (not the edge) of the thermostatic valve.
If the
clearance is less, you should still be able to fit HouseHeat to your
system if you fit some washers or a valve extension between
the
radiator and the valve body to increase this distance to 30mm or more.
However, this would involve draining down the radiator
first. Alternatively, a plumber would easily be able to
increase
the clearance
for you.
