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Default Anybody created a pre-heat DHW cylinder

On 03/11/2015 18:25, dennis@home wrote:
On 03/11/2015 18:03, rick wrote:

I did ask a few weeks back about just using Solar PV excess direct into
Thermal store immersion, but as this is kept 'at temp' don't really see
a way to easily do that.


You need to reprogram it so the heat store isn't kept at full temp to
make space for the solar energy, or fit a new immersion at a lower point
so the solar energy can heat the bottom of the tank.

You could export some of the energy so others benefit.



reprogram what ? ......... there is a simple standard thermostat ...
set to 60 degrees.

I could set it to 450 and immersion stat to 60 but then tank would not
get warm enough when there is no PV power