<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 November 2015 at 11:20, Simon Hobson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:linux@thehobsons.co.uk" target="_blank">linux@thehobsons.co.uk</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">Mark Wigmore <<a href="mailto:mawigmore@gmail.com">mawigmore@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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My goal would be (eventually) to have feedback from each TRV as to it's valve position, and regulate the flow temp accordingly. That way, under light heating load, the flow can stay up a bit but at low temperature - avoiding the "rad cold but for a small (very) hot spot at one end" effect. Or depending on the setup, avoiding the noisy system pumping water round through the bypass because the stupid boiler design* can't cope with normal heating loads.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>You have feedback from TRVs already: hydraulic resistance. Fit a modulating pump and it'll sense differential pressure and can respond as you wish it to.</div><div><br></div><div>Weather compensation addresses your high flow temperature/low return temperature/bouncing around on the bypass issue.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
* Which is universally the case unless someone can tell me otherwise. I've never found a boiler designed for other than a flow rate that gives around 20˚C delta-T.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>A 20C dT (as opposed to the 11C dT that most Uk designers still use) is a very good compromise between flow rates, radiator mean water temperatures, and flow/return temperatures.</div><div><br></div><div>11C dT means you can't get very high mean water temperatures without dropping out of condensing mode.</div><div><br></div><div>30C dT is too low a flow rate usually and ends up sludging things up and is tricky to control with a TRV.</div><div><br></div><div>A boiler with weather compensation of flow temperature, anti-cycling controls, and no bypass (or thermal store - use the rads) works very well indeed at 20C dT.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>What is the purpose of the thermal store in your application?</div><div><br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Marko Cosic</div><div>Technical Director</div><div><br></div><div>+44 7774 524 114</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://www.coheat.co.uk" target="_blank">www.coheat.co.uk</a></div><div><br></div><div>COHEAT Ltd is a company registered in England and Wales. Registered number: 08583328.</div><div>Registered office: Future Business Centre (RS10), Kings Hedges Road, Cambridge CB4 2HY<br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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