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Yes, tiles are good conductors. 🙂 Do you know if the concrete pads have a thermal break (of insulation) in the rooms where they abut an external wa...
I'm not sure that the floor area of the room is the most significant factor. The mass of the concrete pad, the floor surface which covers it and the...
It's not common to have any manual adjustment on an UFH manifold like that. Don't start unscrewing red rings unless you are completely certain of wh...
Thanks. So I can see the white mains-powered thermal actuators on the lower (flow) level of the manifolds, and the flow-gauges on the return side. ...
Yes, it will certainly interfere! Every room requires its own stat/timer. If your manifold allows the flow-rate to be changed, then by all means d...
Since the actuators are effectively 'digital', the bathroom will take its heat first because the resistance is lower. But, of course, its thermostat...
On a related note, I'm currently installing several BMS units from different manufacturers. The Chinese ones have optional colour LCD touch screens,...
It depends in which clearance-sale you trawl for bargains. 😉 I paid £11 because the wholesaler was going to be stocking a rival to Alpha-wire in fu...
Yes. If you've only got one RS485 port on the end of the cable, then you won't need a terminating resistor. I'm currently experimenting using a scre...
Yes of course I'll share what results I get.But as I said, I've only just imported these modules. They're still sat on the workbench, not connected to...
If you want to place a few temperature or voltage sensors around your heat-pump, you could consider using an analogue acquisition module with a Modbus...
Oh great - more hardware questions. 😀 FTP is well beyond the cable spec you're after. But it'll do ok.Let's remember that RS485 gets deployed in re...
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