Does the DCD Controller provide Optimum Start and Weather Compensation ?
The DCD Intelligent Heating Controller is an Optimising Controller with full Weather Compensation. It optimises on every programme in the day, not just the first one, and it optimises central heating programmes and hot water heating programmes separately. You always get the temperature you ask for at the right time, whatever the weather. Typically, in domestic housing, a time clock may be set an hour early to get the house to temperature by the time that the occupants rise in the morning and, similarly, later in the day, for an hour before they return from work, etc. This arbitrary hour to warm-up is inefficient and wasteful. It is not sufficient on very cold days, while it is often far too long for Spring and Autumn days, and milder Winter days, which represent the majority of the days in the year when heating is required It is sometimes argued that temperature trends within a building are relative to those outside, and that it is thus sufficient for an Optimum Start system to be base
