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@jwilliams89 We're quite satisfied with the performance we get from expanded and haven't seen any reason to tweak things further. It's settled on a HC...
@colin All I'm doing to monitor COP is taking daily readings from the sensoCOMFORT for power consumed and environmental yield, then doing the maths ...
Hi folks, Here are some charts showing how things have progressed since the end of November (the data immediately after my mid-November commissionin...
Hi @derek-m I didn't know that about the cold weather leading to hotter radiators; now that you say it, that makes sense. Our controller is wire...
I have another question, this time about TRVs. I've seen many of the more technically minded posters saying that the TRVs should be left fully open, a...
I didn't wait til the end of the week and switched over to expanded mode + adaptive heat curve last Tuesday. I'm not wholly sure what to make of the d...
Thanks both, I appreciate your input. I think I'm going to leave things as I have them til the end of the week, for data collection, and then try swit...
I agree about the adaptive heat curve using the expanded room temp, and that's what I'm working toward. Since the manual asks that the suitable heat c...
Hi @jaspera -- thanks for that info. It looks like we have different controllers (I have a VRC720F) and in the manual Vaillant have removed the text y...
@derek-m Thanks very much -- I think I understand this now, as well as the source of my confusion. My Vaillant 12kW operates only w/the Vaillant Sen...
@derek-m, I have a question about this statement. I think I understand your later explanation of how premature shutoff happens (link) but I don't unde...
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