I am generally a decent handyman, can usually make 2+2=4 and take care of most things to avoid troubling experts with just the basics, but know also not to bumble around blindly beyond that.
We moved house last week and with the glorious hot weather we weren't bothered about the heating, more concerned over not melting in to puddles at night!
Now that that's changed however I have gone to set it up how we like it as I've readily been able to do with other homes we have had, and expecting it to be pretty straightforward.
But over the past two days I have spent far too much time doing, checking, rechecking and retrying, and by this point my mind is a jumble of control panels, displays, thermostats and instruction books with the boiler steadfastly refusing to come to life. I can't think what I have missed, but I do know that I am now too close to the whole thing to see the picture in any fresh way.
So I would be extremely grateful if someone more expert than me when it comes to setting-up basic CH operations - which clearly is everybody else on the Planet! - could look through the following and kindly point me toward what I am missing, which is no doubt something embarassingly simple of course!
The CH system is based on a Baxi 400 condensing combi boiler (and yep it is switched on)
There is a Brit Gas RC1 thermostat in the Hallway, set to 19.5 degrees and hunting up and down between 18 and 19, it is calling for heat all the time (flame icon showing)
There is a Strom Ltd mobile thermostat in the living room, also set to 19.5 degrees on a programme lowering that later in the evening for bedtime comfort, then back to 19.5 for the new morning. Its temp display varies, seems to be whatever it senses/measures in it's location - daytime it varies from 18 to 21.5, is currently showing 20.5, and overnight it dips to 7-8 (tested it by moving it to the no-radiator Conservatory last night.)
Typically the STROM never calls for heat (no flame icon showing), though I acknowledge that that might be for settings/control/operating reasons I am unaware of or just don't appreciate. Strom's receiver is alongside the boiler, both in understairs cupboard.
The boiler however has never come on.
Radiators are always cold, bedroom is chilly at night and the house warms in the morning from natural daytime rising temps.
Interrogating the boiler via the control panel gives the following Operating Parameters at all times:
Operating mode - t00 (Standby)
Operating sub-status - u00 (Standby)
Operating temperature / heating - 25deg C
Operating temperature / water - 25deg C
Power level - 0
(I'm not sure whether "operating temps" are a different thing to "set" temps, which Baxi advises are best set at 60-65 and 55 respectively, which I have done.)
So outwardly the boiler appears not to respond to active/communicating controllers, though now I am not sure of the relationship with two thermostats, nor the priorities involved, if any. (Both thermostats display that they have made wireless connections so are able to control boiler operations.)
However, to test the Strom's pairing I set it to Manual, upped the set-temp to 31 degrees, and instantly the receiver flashed and the boiler kicked right in with a healthy whoosh and we were off to the races. I didn't let it get to 31, just enough to start warming the rads and feel a change happening, and I am satisfied that if left alone it would have crossed the finishing line fine.
I am now at the limit of my brain's reduced capacity, though I am half-seeing signs of something logical that I feel I should be recognising and acting upon to see proper CH operations happening even though I can now at least fall back on manual operation temporarily.
Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks!
Howard
We moved house last week and with the glorious hot weather we weren't bothered about the heating, more concerned over not melting in to puddles at night!
Now that that's changed however I have gone to set it up how we like it as I've readily been able to do with other homes we have had, and expecting it to be pretty straightforward.
But over the past two days I have spent far too much time doing, checking, rechecking and retrying, and by this point my mind is a jumble of control panels, displays, thermostats and instruction books with the boiler steadfastly refusing to come to life. I can't think what I have missed, but I do know that I am now too close to the whole thing to see the picture in any fresh way.
So I would be extremely grateful if someone more expert than me when it comes to setting-up basic CH operations - which clearly is everybody else on the Planet! - could look through the following and kindly point me toward what I am missing, which is no doubt something embarassingly simple of course!
The CH system is based on a Baxi 400 condensing combi boiler (and yep it is switched on)
There is a Brit Gas RC1 thermostat in the Hallway, set to 19.5 degrees and hunting up and down between 18 and 19, it is calling for heat all the time (flame icon showing)
There is a Strom Ltd mobile thermostat in the living room, also set to 19.5 degrees on a programme lowering that later in the evening for bedtime comfort, then back to 19.5 for the new morning. Its temp display varies, seems to be whatever it senses/measures in it's location - daytime it varies from 18 to 21.5, is currently showing 20.5, and overnight it dips to 7-8 (tested it by moving it to the no-radiator Conservatory last night.)
Typically the STROM never calls for heat (no flame icon showing), though I acknowledge that that might be for settings/control/operating reasons I am unaware of or just don't appreciate. Strom's receiver is alongside the boiler, both in understairs cupboard.
The boiler however has never come on.
Radiators are always cold, bedroom is chilly at night and the house warms in the morning from natural daytime rising temps.
Interrogating the boiler via the control panel gives the following Operating Parameters at all times:
Operating mode - t00 (Standby)
Operating sub-status - u00 (Standby)
Operating temperature / heating - 25deg C
Operating temperature / water - 25deg C
Power level - 0
(I'm not sure whether "operating temps" are a different thing to "set" temps, which Baxi advises are best set at 60-65 and 55 respectively, which I have done.)
So outwardly the boiler appears not to respond to active/communicating controllers, though now I am not sure of the relationship with two thermostats, nor the priorities involved, if any. (Both thermostats display that they have made wireless connections so are able to control boiler operations.)
However, to test the Strom's pairing I set it to Manual, upped the set-temp to 31 degrees, and instantly the receiver flashed and the boiler kicked right in with a healthy whoosh and we were off to the races. I didn't let it get to 31, just enough to start warming the rads and feel a change happening, and I am satisfied that if left alone it would have crossed the finishing line fine.
I am now at the limit of my brain's reduced capacity, though I am half-seeing signs of something logical that I feel I should be recognising and acting upon to see proper CH operations happening even though I can now at least fall back on manual operation temporarily.
Any help will be most appreciated. Thanks!
Howard