PIC Based Boiler Controller


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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9 thoughts on “PIC Based Boiler Controller

  1. @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.

  2. 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.

  3. 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 .

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