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Multiple Zone Control Panels
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- Set different temperatures in different areas for comfort and energy savings
- Works with standard thermostats
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In most homes, heating and cooling accounts for the largest part of the energy bill. Despite this, most homes waste a tremendous amount of heat and cool air through inefficient use. Efficiency can be significantly improved by only heating or cooling when necessary (ie. when occupants are present) and by only heating/cooling to the exact desired temperature. Home automation and zoned HVAC (heating, ventilation, air-conditioning) can do this for you automatically. You can set different desired temperatures in each room and by using motion detectors you can automatically turn ON/OFF the heating/cooling to each zone as people enter and leave. The energy savings in the average home over just a few years will often pay for the entire home automation system.
A simple common-sense analysis of un-zoned systems will show you how much you can save. Imagine a 2-zone home with one zone being the living room and the other being the bedroom. Un-zoned systems will always heat/cool both rooms at the same time even if only one zone is being occupied. This means that twice as much energy is being used as necessary. Add to that any periods when the system is accidentally left on when no one is home and you can see how wasteful this system can be. Automated zoned systems will only heat/cool the room that is being occupied. The occupied room will also be heated or cooled to the desired temperature much faster. This is because the energy that would otherwise be wasted on the unoccupied room is being directed to the occupied room.
Convert a standard heating and cooling system into a system that provides independent temperature control of 2 to 6 zones within a home. Simply install a thermostat in each zone and then wire them to the zone controller. Install dampers in the ducts feeding the different zones and wire those back to the zone controller. Finally, connect the zone controller to your heating/cooling system. The zone controller will automatically coordinate damper and HVAC system control to maintain the temperatures set in each zone.
These units will work with a standard 24-volt heating and air conditioner. Works with single-stage heat pumps and conventional system that run off electric or fossil fuels, like natural gas. It allows you to use a wide variety of thermostats including programmable thermostats in a multiple zone system. The master zone thermostat must be a heatpump compatible unit.
When a thermostat tells the panel that it needs heating (cooling) in that zone, the panel checks to see if the HVAC is on, if it isn't, it turns it on. Then it opens dampers in the zones that require heating (cooling) and closes dampers in zones that don't. If all zones do not require heating (cooling) then the panel switches the HVAC off. The panel will work with both normally open and normally closed dampers and the relay outputs for each zone will control up to 2 dampers. (Relays must be added if more than 2 dampers per zone are required.)
If you use this panel with a Slimline Thermostat in each zone, you can use the input contact on each thermostat to individually switch zones between Home & Away temperatures.
The panel comes in 2 or 3 zone versions. If you need more than 3 zones you can link 2 panels in any combination to provide up to 6 zones.
Requires 24-volt AC Power Supply, use 3060.
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