Hey Guys,
We are months away from breaking ground on a custom construction home. One of the things that I'm determined to get right is the HVAC. In particular, I want each major area to be controlled on it's own zone. The house will be 2 stories with about 7300 sq ft of living area. Based on the layout of the home, I'm thinking that we'll need 9 independently controlled zones.
I've selected Omni Pro II as the Automation board ( have the Aegis 2000 in our current house, it's bullet proof, I'm familiar with the programming and the Omni is basically the same unit) Currently I have my Aegis set up to manage the com T stats. (ie set back at night, when alarm "armed", etc) What I'm looking for though is True automation of the zones.
I ran across this post on the site, but the member hasn't logged on since early december....
[i]HVAC
COMPLETE HVAC CONTROL. Luckily, we started this project in the building phase. Because of this we were able to install motorized dampers into the HVAC system. The home has a single furnace on each floor, each floor has 3 zones. A total of 9 zones and 9 thermos. This has been absolutely amazing to watch. The software has been loaded to monitor living conditions and trends. It's been amazing watching how precise it has kept the different temperature in each zone and "learning" the best way to utilize the system.
*Very Basic Example" -- During the winter it has learned that it is much more effective to generally use the lower level furnace and let the heat rise to the higher floors. The entire house has stayed within 9/10 of 1 degree in all zones 97% of the time. The local gas and electric company actually knocked on the door and asked "curious" questions as to the low utility usage of this home opposed to the others in the neighborhood. I can't tell you how ecstatics my inner geek was this point.[/i]
This type of automation of the HVAC is exactly what I'm looking for.
Does anyone know what software he may have loaded? If a variable speed blower is present...is the zoning program smart enough to make sure that if only 1 or 2 zones are calling for heat/cool, the excess air is either being "dumped" into another zone, or ramping the fan speed down? Is there an interface that I would use instead of the traditional zone controller, or do they make a zone controller that interfaces with HA?
Just to give you a bit more of what I'm going for, check this site out...
www.homecomfortzones.com
All the zone boards that I've found only allow control of the communicating t stats(change temp, fan status via automation) but no logical input from sensors/conditions of HA or monitoring of living conditions or trends. I would basically like to do all that JClarke's or Homecomfort's system (ie use active mixing of air between too hot and too cool zones before system calls for heat or air, monitor static pressure in plenum and ramp variable speed fan up or down depending on number of zones calling for conditioning) but automated.
What do you guys think, is this possible??
We are months away from breaking ground on a custom construction home. One of the things that I'm determined to get right is the HVAC. In particular, I want each major area to be controlled on it's own zone. The house will be 2 stories with about 7300 sq ft of living area. Based on the layout of the home, I'm thinking that we'll need 9 independently controlled zones.
I've selected Omni Pro II as the Automation board ( have the Aegis 2000 in our current house, it's bullet proof, I'm familiar with the programming and the Omni is basically the same unit) Currently I have my Aegis set up to manage the com T stats. (ie set back at night, when alarm "armed", etc) What I'm looking for though is True automation of the zones.
I ran across this post on the site, but the member hasn't logged on since early december....
[i]HVAC
COMPLETE HVAC CONTROL. Luckily, we started this project in the building phase. Because of this we were able to install motorized dampers into the HVAC system. The home has a single furnace on each floor, each floor has 3 zones. A total of 9 zones and 9 thermos. This has been absolutely amazing to watch. The software has been loaded to monitor living conditions and trends. It's been amazing watching how precise it has kept the different temperature in each zone and "learning" the best way to utilize the system.
*Very Basic Example" -- During the winter it has learned that it is much more effective to generally use the lower level furnace and let the heat rise to the higher floors. The entire house has stayed within 9/10 of 1 degree in all zones 97% of the time. The local gas and electric company actually knocked on the door and asked "curious" questions as to the low utility usage of this home opposed to the others in the neighborhood. I can't tell you how ecstatics my inner geek was this point.[/i]
This type of automation of the HVAC is exactly what I'm looking for.
Does anyone know what software he may have loaded? If a variable speed blower is present...is the zoning program smart enough to make sure that if only 1 or 2 zones are calling for heat/cool, the excess air is either being "dumped" into another zone, or ramping the fan speed down? Is there an interface that I would use instead of the traditional zone controller, or do they make a zone controller that interfaces with HA?
Just to give you a bit more of what I'm going for, check this site out...
www.homecomfortzones.com
All the zone boards that I've found only allow control of the communicating t stats(change temp, fan status via automation) but no logical input from sensors/conditions of HA or monitoring of living conditions or trends. I would basically like to do all that JClarke's or Homecomfort's system (ie use active mixing of air between too hot and too cool zones before system calls for heat or air, monitor static pressure in plenum and ramp variable speed fan up or down depending on number of zones calling for conditioning) but automated.
What do you guys think, is this possible??