Comments on: PIC based boiler controller http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:22:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: boiler service http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-398242 Thu, 26 May 2011 15:59:34 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-398242 I to did what the above reader did. It did help me save on electricity bills.

Great info though. I wish we had more info for the noobs.

]]> By: Mark http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39349 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 04:41:30 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39349 I did something similar to this last year.
I wanted to replace my AC thermostat that used the old mercury bubble method to something programmable.

I built it out of a pic 16f88, a dallas ic for the temperature, two relays, and a 16×2 lcd display.

One thing that irked me about my current thermostat is that if the heat pump outside was running and the temperature was reached , the fan inside just shuts off. So all that cold refrigerant and those cold coils inside were just wasted energy.

I set my project to cut off the heat pump when the temp was reached but to let the fan inside blow for another 2 minutes. It actually did lower my electric bill .

]]> By: Scott http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39348 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:33:43 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39348 http://web.archive.org/web/20021023165639/http://www.geocities.com/JDPetkov/Hardware/HomeHeat/HomeHeat.htm

]]> By: jake http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39347 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:20:07 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39347 can someone mirror this?

]]> By: backwash http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39346 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 20:32:53 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39346 Great project, although I would have preferred an AD temperature measurement scheme. Adjusting set points would be greatly simplified and could be changed on the fly. The PIC16F716 would be a good choice and it’s internal clock would further lower the parts count.

]]> By: Frollard http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39345 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:58:45 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39345 @1:
Really though – they’re not gonna pay to host a site they happen to put up for our benefit, documenting what they have done. They can’t help that hackaday has this tendency of destroying linked webservers.

Its a neat project mirroring existing commercial systems. good stuff.

]]> By: Comm_Hawk http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39344 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 18:00:05 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39344 None of the links work. Geocities Fail

]]> By: farevalod http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39343 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:29:03 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39343 If you provided said web servers at a competitive (read: free) price I’m sure everyone would be pleased to suit you.

]]> By: jc http://hackaday.com/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/comment-page-1/#comment-39342 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:18:06 +0000 http://hackaday.iheartcashews.com:8181/2008/07/21/pic-based-boiler-controller/#comment-39342 It would be nice if people hosted their pages on real web servers, instead of those toy sites, like Yahoo and GeoCities.

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