We’re used to central A/C, so we were surprised by this PIC controller based heater controller. It’s based around a pump controlled boiler/radiator system. A PIC 16F84 is used to input the set point and control a pump to circulate the heated water as needed. You can grab full schematics on the project page.
Update: We added a screen capture of the schematic after the break since the site keeled over.
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It would be nice if people hosted their pages on real web servers, instead of those toy sites, like Yahoo and GeoCities.
If you provided said web servers at a competitive (read: free) price I’m sure everyone would be pleased to suit you.
None of the links work. Geocities Fail
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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.
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.
can someone mirror this?
http://web.archive.org/web/20021023165639/http://www.geocities.com/JDPetkov/Hardware/HomeHeat/HomeHeat.htm
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 .
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.