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Section 8 - Commissioning & Maintenance
The following steps are important when ensuring the system has been installed correctly and has
been setup to run correctly under normal operating circumstances.
1. Ensure the red and blue valves on the solar pumping station are twisted as far anti clockwise as
possible (usually inline with the pipework).
2. Open the grub screw beneath the circulating pump fully by turning anti clockwise as far as
possible.
3. Set the circulating pump on speed 1, power up the RM Solar Controller and adjust the settings if
required.
Never run the solar pump dry, doing so will invalidate any pump guarantees.
4. Put the RM Controller into manual operation (ensure any motorised valves ect. on the solar
primary pipework have opened).
5. Set the flow rate between 0.5-1L/m per panel, e.g. a 2 panel system requires a flowrate of
between 1-2L/m.
6. To slow the flowrate slowly close the grub screw beneath the solar pump by twisting clockwise.
7. To increase the flowrate switch the circulating pump speed setting up at the pump.
8. When the desired flow rate has been achieved put the controller into automatic mode.
The system has now been correctly commissioned.
Commissioning
