Hive Install

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Hi everyone,
I've made a huge error installing my Hive system, by that i mean I didnt take a picture of the Danfoss WB12 wiring block before disconnecting! I watched a guide that basically said to trace back the black connected to the white wire and swap over the grey. But I mistook part of it and I ended up removing the wrong grey and black and im not 100% sure which one goes where.

I have a danfoss fp receiver which is a straigh swap for the Hive 2 channel controller, I have a boiler in the kitchen (Icos he12) and a separate water tank upstairs (range tribute he). I have fully isolated the old thermostat at both ends which maybe where the problem is (identifying the correct terminals) i have no errors on the hive controller or receiver, however there doesnt appear to be a heat demand going to the boiler as it stays on 0 on the display (should be a c i believe)
 

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I've done a bit of reading with the multimeter and watched further videos. I have found the hive receiver hot water and heat demand cables as labelled in the picture, ive connected these to the respective valves.

I'm now left with a grey wire connecting to the white and yellow which seem to be from the tank thermostat.

Hot water

hot water kicks the boiler in when I turn the tank thermo stat up, at this point I'm not sure if its wired correctly (but water is still hot).

heating

the valve opens (tried the lever) but it still isn't kicking the boiler in.

Any help please?
 

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If you have removed the room thermostat and not put anything in it’s place, like a link, then you’ve left a circuit open and no way to close it unless you put a link in.
 
If you have removed the room thermostat and not put anything in it’s place, like a link, then you’ve left a circuit open and no way to close it unless you put a link in.
Hi thanks. So comes the question- where does the link go?

Seems in this set up the orange wires from the valves trigger the pump. There's a grey wire from each valve that tie up in terminal 2 with a brown which I was assuming was the boiler.
 
Mid-position zone valve has fire wires, Orange to boiler, White to room thermostat, Blue is neutral, Green/yellow is earth, the Grey wire is domestic hot water off, note off not on, and the motorised valve you can reasonably rely on. Unfortunately plumbers often wire central heating system, and they do naughty things like using green/yellow for other than earth.

With the Y Plan we need both normal open and normal closed from the tank thermostat, and it is common for plumbers to use the green/yellow for one of those.
 
Mid-position zone valve has fire wires, Orange to boiler, White to room thermostat, Blue is neutral, Green/yellow is earth, the Grey wire is domestic hot water off, note off not on, and the motorised valve you can reasonably rely on. Unfortunately plumbers often wire central heating system, and they do naughty things like using green/yellow for other than earth.

With the Y Plan we need both normal open and normal closed from the tank thermostat, and it is common for plumbers to use the green/yellow for one of those.
Hi thanks.
It's entirely possible I'm misinterpreting what you mean. However

Both hot water and heating valves are both wired with 4 core, blue, brown (SL), grey (PL) and orange (appears to be trigger for pump).

I also have a tank thermostat that has earth, white and yellow.

Finally there is a pump, 3 core, brown, blue and earth.

All earth's and neutral are wired at the bottom, and none have been disturbed.

Valve orange wires are grouped with the brown live from the pump.


I then have brown from the hot water valve wired with the yellow from the tank thermo stat.

White from the tank thermo stat is an unknown, it previously had a black wire connected to it, but I don't know if that was from the now removed thermo star or from what I now know to be the hot water demand from the unit downstairs (measures 240v when hot water demand is placed)

Right now I have the previously unknown grey wire connected with the orange wires from the valves. In this configuration the heating triggers the boiler (hasn't dont this all day since I disturbed it)

However I'm not sure if the water demand is working correctly, there is hot water, but im not sure if that has been in there all day unused as no one has been home and used the electric shower earlier
 

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