Opinions on Honeywell CM zone?

Jan 09, 2011 20 Replies

I finally had this installed. I did everything but the HC60NG myself; pretty easy. The HC60NG is not hard either, if you know what you are doing. Because it does not have a battery, my friendly electrician put the neutral back into action (the CM907 that I had does not use neutral). The bridge for the Live was pretty easy, really. I exercised caution and hope others do the same too as required; this is 240V.

Early thoughts: it works. The room temp overshoots the TRV temp by 2 degrees. I think I may be able to get the system to compensate for that, but I need to investigate this further if I can be bothered.

I needed to order an adapter for my ancient Danfoss RAV valve. Honeywell advised on that but could not supply; I ordered from

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but it has not arrived yet. Other than that, the HR80UK went on the Danfoss RAS-C2 pretty easily with the supplied adapter and with no adapter on the "Scottish Gas" branded valves.

My current consideration is that the HC60NG calls for heating for short periods of time; does this mean that the dino-boiler short-cycles?

In terms of comfort, it does what it says on the tin. I doubt I will recoup the cost from the gas savings, but I now have a much needed second zone. Could I have done it by moving the central stat in that coldest room and relying on TRVs? Possibly; however, I now no longer heat that romm much in the morning and that "feels" better.

Oh, and Honeywell said that a new system is about to launch (evo-home) with a better controller. The CM67z is a step backwards from the CM907, with no party mode and no back-light.

I hope this helps,

Kostas

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