Hot water temperature advice.

EvilDrPorkChop

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• Mar 15, 2019

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Not come across a VRC430 in a while and certainly haven't programmed one for ages! If it's anything like the Worcester ones, the timer settings for the HW I would imagine are for the 'Comfort' mode. So you can have comfort turned on during set periods so you get HW quicker, but can have it off during the night to save gas and prevent the boiler coming on.

HW temp can be whatever you want, doesn't matter as it's a combi. I usually recommend 55oc. If you had stored HW like an Unvented cylinder then different matter.

 

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• Mar 15, 2019

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Google it and download instructions if you don’t have them. It can be used to control domestic hot water (dhw) from an additional source. I’m not sure it relates to comfort mode.

Stored dhw - 60 degrees
Combi - user preference, but I usually set between 60 and 65.

 

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Hi CBW1982. Sorry to jump in on thread. I work with oil boilers, as you may or may not know oil combi’s have a thermal store or slave tank to aid in HW production. Are there any gas combis that are similar in design or store HW? I’m not trained on gas so wouldn’t know

 

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• Mar 15, 2019

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SJB060685 said:

Hi CBW1982. Sorry to jump in on thread. I work with oil boilers, as you may or may not know oil combi’s have a thermal store or slave tank to aid in HW production. Are there any gas combis that are similar in design or store HW? I’m not trained on gas so wouldn’t know

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Hi SJB, I'm not to sure tbh, I only ever fit combi's and just those. Perhaps someone else may know?

 

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No worries buddy

 

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The Vaillant 938 is a storage combi however as far as i'm aware on that model it just uses the comfort setting to keep the store warm rather than timings.

The only other Storage combis I have come across is the Worcester Highflows which use the timer to keep the store warm as suggested.

 

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Thanks Evil. Oil combis use a store, they use a timer to bring store up to temp to speed up HW production. If the store is cold then that volume of tank needs to be brought up to temp before you get HW at taps. Like I said I’m not trained on gas, what I know about gas is what little we learnt at college and what I’ve studied since. I know the principles behind gas boilers, pipe sizing and everything else you’d expect an engineer to understand but have know experience with gas like I say. My work only consisted of PJ and VS/VP burners

 

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will be some kind of hot water pre heat

60 dc

 

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So Shaun one last question if you don’t mind. These gas storage combi’s. Are all the stores like oil combi’s as in the store is pre heated to supply instant heat to PHX when a tap is opened or are some an actual storage for DHW taps? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m just trying to further my understanding of gas boilers.

 

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SJB060685 said:

So Shaun one last question if you don’t mind. These gas storage combi’s. Are all the stores like oil combi’s as in the store is pre heated to supply instant heat to PHX when a tap is opened or are some an actual storage for DHW taps? Sorry if this is a stupid question, I’m just trying to further my understanding of gas boilers.

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Correct but they use the same water eg you take your supply from the tanks until it runs out normally vaillants are around the 15l mark they also have a strat pump moves the hot water to the bottom etc

 

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Got you. As far as I know oil combi’s don’t have a stratification pump. Wether it’s a diverter valve or two pump system the water is pumped through the bottom of oil combi’s storage before coming out the top and going through the PHX to heat DHW.

 

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