Potterton to hive

[SMOGMONSTER9]

Hi, im wanting to change my thermostat to a hive system but not 100% on the wiring

this is the wiring in the potterton prt2

and this is the wiring diagram for the hive, the boiler is a ideal classic and the HW tank is a boilermate 2000, any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[stem]

It's a straight swap, terminal for terminal that has the same function as the existing thermostat, which is shown on the diagrams in your pictures.

So at the Hive:

Brown wire to 'Live' (L)
Blue wire to 'Neutral' (N)
Black wire to 'Heating ON' (3)

Insert the link between 'Live' (L) and 'Com' (1)

If you are just replacing a basic thermostat with the Hive (ie not a programmable thermostat) then any existing programmer will have to be set so that the central heating is permanently 'on' otherwise it will override the Hive.

 

[SMOGMONSTER9]

It's a straight swap, terminal for terminal that has the same function as the existing thermostat, which is shown on the diagrams in your pictures.

So at the Hive:

Brown wire to 'Live' (L)
Blue wire to 'Neutral' (N)
Black wire to 'Heating ON' (3)

Insert the link between 'Live' (L) and 'Com' (1)

If you are just replacing a basic thermostat with the Hive (ie not a programmable thermostat) then any existing programmer will have to be set so that the central heating is permanently 'on' otherwise it will override the Hive.

Spot on thankyou !!

 

[SMOGMONSTER9]

It's a straight swap, terminal for terminal that has the same function as the existing thermostat, which is shown on the diagrams in your pictures.

So at the Hive:

Brown wire to 'Live' (L)
Blue wire to 'Neutral' (N)
Black wire to 'Heating ON' (3)

Insert the link between 'Live' (L) and 'Com' (1)

If you are just replacing a basic thermostat with the Hive (ie not a programmable thermostat) then any existing programmer will have to be set so that the central heating is permanently 'on' otherwise it will override the Hive.

So, if the boiler is a ideal classic ff360 and has a gledhill boilermate 2000 do i need the ‘just heating’ kit or ‘heating and hotwater kit’

 

[stem]

Good question, and I'm not too sure on that one. The Hive single channel version will replace the existing room thermostat as per your original question and control the heating, but due to the boilermate's nature of operation in that the thermal store needs to be heated to provide hot water and / or heating, I don't think the Hive will really be suitable to control the hot water side of the system. However, as I have never fitted a Hive to a thermal store I can't really say. Hopefully someone else will be along with a more definitive answer.

 

[SMOGMONSTER9]

If i only wanted it to control the CH side of it would it work ??

 

[stem]

Yes, it will work with just the central heating. But you will still need to set your existing Central Heating time control to be permanently 'on' and the Hive will control the time and temperature settings.

I'm assuming here that you do have existing independent time control of the Central Heating.

 

[SMOGMONSTER9]

Yeah it has an old style peg control which we hate, thats why we want to change it, thanks for your help