Application manual
KNX room temperature controller EK-EQ2-TP
Release 3.00 - Updating: 27/06/2017
Application Manual
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About the heating/cooling terminals
The application functions of the room temperature controller configurable with ETS are particularly suitable
for the control through general-purpose or dedicated KNX actuators of the following heating/cooling
terminals:
• radiators;
• elettrical heaters;
• fancoils;
• radiant panels;
• dehumidification units;
• radiant radiators (as auxiliary system);
• radiant fancoils (as auxiliary system);
• radiant dehumidification units.
7.8.1.2
Heating/cooling switchover
The switchover between the two seasonal modes (heating / cooling) may happens as follows:
1)
manually on the device by the end user;
2)
automatically by the device;
3)
from the KNX bus through a dedicated communication object.
Manual switch-over (mode 1)
The manual switch-over is suitable for bus systems with one or a limited number of room temperature
controllers. If the devices have been configured for this purpose, the user does the switch-over manually on
the device (that acts as a "master" for the switch-over function); the device sends on the bus the output
communication object [DPT 1.100 heat/cool] that switches possibly other room temperature controllers
("slave" devices) connected through a dedicated group address.
Automatic switch-over (mode 2)
The automatic switch-over is suitable for a 4-pipe hydraulic configuration of the heating/cooling installation
(used e.g. for fan-coil units or ceiling radianti panels). Also in this case the information can be sent on the
bus with the output communication object [DPT 1.100 heat/cool]; the difference from the first mode is that
switching is performed automatically on the basis of a comparison between the values of the actual
temperature and the setpoint temperature. In this mode, the manual switching by the user is disabled.
The automatic switch-over is realised with the introduction of a neutral zone according to the scheme in the
picture below.
OFF (protection)
ECONOMY
STAND-BY
COMFORT
32 °C
28 °C
26 °C
24 °C
8 °C
16 °C
18 °C
20 °C
Dead zone