I have a Vaillant EcoTEC Plus boiler, UniSTOR storage cylinder and VR65.
We originally had the VRT 360f room thermostat/controller, we managed with this (just) but found it so hard to use, especially when it's not something you use regularly. Trying to explain to the other half over the phone how to put the heating on for an hour....
The boiler/UniSTOR is in the garage and the thermostat is in our hall-way (we have an open fire in the lounge). Because we have a large 1970's house with solid-walls, we were never 100% sure about the wireless unit, but our installer was persuasive. In hindsight the actual run for the cabling would be almost the same as that taken for the pipework back to the garage.
Our biggest problem was the thermostat and the boiler would lose RF communication (we've never been able to work out if this was environmentally triggered or not). Without a link to the thermostat feedback the boiler turned the central heating on, if you were out when this happened, you'd return to a very toasty house. 24Degrees inside when it's 24Degrees outside isn't a great fail-safe mode.
Vaillant replaced the VRT360f with VRT 392f. I'd say the feeback loop on their heating control's department might be broken too. If only for the icons for hot-water and central heating I'd be happier with the VRT360f. Needless to say we've already had at least one occasion when the boiler has lost connection with the thermostat.
My intention now is to have the VRT392f replaced with (preferably) another manufacturer's unit or a wired VRT360 (from eBay).
When we were discussing the boiler with our fitter (who IIRC only installed Vaillant) I was under the impression that because of the combination we have:
EcoTEC Plus/UniSTOR/VR-65
we must use a Vaillant control-unit too. Can anyone give any advise about this.
I suspect that if we don't we may not get the benefit of some features but so long as we can have the heating and hot-water on a timer and have a simple manual over-ride, I'd be happy.
I've seen many mentions in many forums of gas installers swapping out the VRT controllers due to the complicated interface. I just don't know that my set-up would allow this option.
Any help greatly appreciated (the cable-run the thermostat isn't a big issue BTW).
We originally had the VRT 360f room thermostat/controller, we managed with this (just) but found it so hard to use, especially when it's not something you use regularly. Trying to explain to the other half over the phone how to put the heating on for an hour....
The boiler/UniSTOR is in the garage and the thermostat is in our hall-way (we have an open fire in the lounge). Because we have a large 1970's house with solid-walls, we were never 100% sure about the wireless unit, but our installer was persuasive. In hindsight the actual run for the cabling would be almost the same as that taken for the pipework back to the garage.
Our biggest problem was the thermostat and the boiler would lose RF communication (we've never been able to work out if this was environmentally triggered or not). Without a link to the thermostat feedback the boiler turned the central heating on, if you were out when this happened, you'd return to a very toasty house. 24Degrees inside when it's 24Degrees outside isn't a great fail-safe mode.
Vaillant replaced the VRT360f with VRT 392f. I'd say the feeback loop on their heating control's department might be broken too. If only for the icons for hot-water and central heating I'd be happier with the VRT360f. Needless to say we've already had at least one occasion when the boiler has lost connection with the thermostat.
My intention now is to have the VRT392f replaced with (preferably) another manufacturer's unit or a wired VRT360 (from eBay).
When we were discussing the boiler with our fitter (who IIRC only installed Vaillant) I was under the impression that because of the combination we have:
EcoTEC Plus/UniSTOR/VR-65
we must use a Vaillant control-unit too. Can anyone give any advise about this.
I suspect that if we don't we may not get the benefit of some features but so long as we can have the heating and hot-water on a timer and have a simple manual over-ride, I'd be happy.
I've seen many mentions in many forums of gas installers swapping out the VRT controllers due to the complicated interface. I just don't know that my set-up would allow this option.
Any help greatly appreciated (the cable-run the thermostat isn't a big issue BTW).