Over 98% of central heating systems use a time clock, boiler and room thermostat to control the heating. A hopelessly inefficient system based on technology that was around 100 years ago! None of this mattered much when oil was $10 a barrel and gas was cheap - now oil is over $100 a barrel and the cost of gas has doubled.
Replacing your central heating clock with a HeatingSave controller can save you £100's if not £1,000's off your heating bill! Usually paying for itself in less than a year!!
- 15% to 30%+ fuel savings easily achievable
- Install and forget is the principal of HeatingSave as its internal computer constantly calculates and improves the efficiency - and savings - of your central heating
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Use HeatingSave as
stand alone
or link to your PC to create a powerful energy management system - Simply choose the room temperature and the hot water you want, and when, and HeatingSave does the rest; from day one, giving you comfort, energy savings and peace of mind.
- Works on most types of gas and oil fired boilers - even old ones
How does it work?
At the heart of HeatingSave is a state-of-the-art microprocessor connected to a number of temperature sensors measuring the external outside temperature, room, hot water tank and heating flow & return temperatures. Also connected to the controller are relays to control the boiler, heating pump(s) and heating zone valves (if any).
Heating start time
Traditional time clocks set the heating to come on at a particular time. Most are a '24 hour clock' and cannot vary the times throughout the week wasting fuel at weekends.
Even a 7-day clock cannot cater for holidays or periods when the building is empty. With HeatingSave you can change a room temperature requirement over 1,000 times a day, yes each day, giving you 100% control of the heating you require for your needs in summer, winter or throughout the year. The choice is yours!
You can set the temperatures to suit your needs so that it's warm in the morning when you get up, cooler during the day when working and warmer in the evening when you want to relax. The HeatingSave rolling diary knows about weekends and holidays or changes in your daily routine; ideal for shift workers as your shift pattern can be given to HeatingSave to keep your house warm for you when you come home, keeping you warm and saving you money, between 10%-30%+.
Variable start time
Connect our PIR room occupancy sensors to the HeatingSave controller and the heating will automatically turn itself down when nobody is at home but automatically turn up the heating when you arrive home and need it. For offices, you can hold the room temperature at a lower background heat and then automatically turn it up when people arrive. Ideal for offices where the occupancy level can vary considerably. All of this happens automatically without you having to do anything - keeping you warm and saving you money.
Turning on the boiler
Your current heating time clock turns on your boiler so your rooms are warm at a specific time. It does this irrespective of the outside temperature, because it doesn't know it.
The outside winter temperature 1st thing in the morning can be -5°C on one day and +12°C the next, so HeatingSave calculates the heat loss profile of your specific building using the current outside temperature to work out the absolute latest time to switches on the boiler for the rooms to be warm for when you want them. Equally, HeatingSave switches off the boiler early on warm days at the end of the heating period - saving up to another 8% of fuel.
Boiler temperature
Your existing control is manual, with you turning it up in cold weather and down in warm weather, but you have to remember to do this with fluctuating outside temperatures.
HeatingSave does this automatically for you using your buildings particular heat loss profile which it has been developing and refining since the day it was installed - saving up to 10% fuel.
Flow and return temperatures
Your boiler has a flow and return pipe carrying the heated water to your radiators and hot water cylinder. There should be several degrees difference between these if your heating system is working efficiently. HeatingSave constantly monitors the flow and return temperature, adjusting the boiler temperature to keep your boiler running efficiently - savings up to 8%.
Old-fashioned thermostats
The chances are that you have these both on your boiler and in your rooms. They are crude devices often based on an expanding piece of metal.
The diagram above shows the difference between a thermostat and HeatingSave, which accurately watches the climbing room temperature and switches off the heat, using the residual heat within the boiler, to reach the correct room temperature. Thermostats can't do this and always overshoot the temperature wasting fuel and sometimes causing discomfort. Thermostats also oscillate around the desired temperature causing more fuel to be used than necessary - savings up to 5% of fuel.
Frost protection
Frost thermostats have the inherent disadvantages above and always switch on the heating. HeatingSave initially turns on the heating pump distributing heat from one part of the building to another. Only when this is not enough will it switch on the boiler and then only using the minimum amount of fuel to keep the frost at bay - saving up to 2%+ of fuel.
Fuel Usage
HeatingSave counts the minutes it switches on and off your boiler each day to prove to you it's saving you money over your existing time clock. The longer it has been installed the more it saves as its microprocessor continually refines its mathematical thermal algorithm of your property. HeatingSave's PC software allows you to cost exactly how much you heating is costing and for those with oil-fired systems predicts how much oil is left in the tank.