Polypipe UFHTIME4RFB User Manual

4 Zone RF Time Clock

User Guide UFHTIME4RFB

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Overview

The RF 4 Zone Time Clock is designed to work with the Dial Thermostat (UFHDIALRFB) to provide time control per manifold. Time clock also has 3 other zones which can be used.

The unit is designed to be used with our range of wireless master wiring centres and slave units.

Details on how to initiate communication with the receiver units in RF applications are provided in the additional RF documentation.

This user guide provides user settings and Programming details, these and the advanced settings can also be downloaded from www.polypipeufh.com in A4 format.

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Please Read Before Programming Your Time Clock

Time settings

The Time Clock operates in 2 different modes:

Comfort - The time clock is on allowing individual room thermostats to operate.

Setback - The time clock will be off, meaning no room thermostats will operate.

This is to assist the response time of the heating system.

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Contents

1 Battery Access and User Controls

1.1 Keyboard

1.2 Display

2 First Time Installation

2.1 Installing Batteries

2.2 Time and Date Adjustment

2.3 Zone Allocation and RF Initiation

3 Selecting a Pre-set Program P1 - P9

4 User Deﬁned Programs U1 - U4

4.1 Creating User Deﬁned Program

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Contents

5 Operating Menus

5.1 Automatic Mode

5.2 Off Mode

5.3 Holiday Mode

5.4 Keyboard Lock Function

6 Pre-set Programs

7 Hidden Menus

8 Technical Speciﬁcation

9 Fault Diagnostic

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1 Battery Access and User Controls

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1.1 Keyboard

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1.2 Display

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1-3 Setting or measured hour/text/indications 4 Operating mode menu

(active mode is framed) 5 Program number or parameter number

if “7” is displayed

6 Temporary override function activated 7 Installation parameter menu 8 RF transmission logo 9 Low batteries indicator 10 Modiﬁcation of parameter 11 Program of the current day 12 Zone number or Period number in the

program of the current day or current zone number

13 Key lock indicator 14 Current zone state: “On” (activated) and

“Off” (disabled)

15 Frost protection is activated 16 Days of the week (current day is framed) 17 AM/PM

NOTE: At any time, when the backlight is switched off, press the (OK)

key to activate the backlight and wake up the product. Press another time the (OK) key to show the current setting temperature.

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2 First Time Installation

This section will guide you to starting your time clock for the ﬁrst time.

2.1 Installing Batteries

- Lift the front panel off and insert the 2 x AAA alkaline batteries supplied (or remove the small protection sticker if the batteries are already installed in the compartment)

- Replace the front panel

- Your time clock will ask you to set the time

- Note: The time and date setting can be set at any time by pressing the (OK) key for 3 seconds

2.2 Time and Date Adjustment

The valve to be adjusted will blink, and is adjusted with keys (-) and (+). Once the adjustment is made, accept it with the (OK) key.

The time clock will jump automatically to the next value.

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Progress of the adjustments:

Time and day:

Hours setting Minutes setting Day of week setting

Date:

Day setting Month setting Year setting

You can access the time and date adjustment made by pressing (OK) key for 3 seconds at any time in off mode.

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2.3 Zone Allocation and RF Initiation

Once the time and date have been entered, the unit will ask you to activate the required number of heating zones by displaying:

By displaying a ﬂasing “Yes”, this means that Zone 1 is active. By displaying a ﬂashing “No”, this means that Zone 1 isn’t active. Select “Yes” or “No” with (-) and (+) keys.

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Once “Yes” is entered for a zone, press (OK) key. The unit will indicate that RF initiation is taking place for that particular channel by displaying a series of dashes:

Once the receiver unit or RF master unit has been accepted the initiation signal, repeat the

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process for the remaining required channels.

By pressing the or keys, select the zone number and if you want to ﬁnish zone initiation step, press (OK) key when this screen is

displaying:

You will be able to change your conﬁguration by accessing the zone activation menu (page 37).

Important: If no zone is activated, all working modes won’t work.

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3 Selecting a Preset Program P1 to P9

There are 9 preset programs P1-P9.

The time clock will default to P1 (see programs pages 26 to 34).

To select a preset program use the navigation keys to move the cursor from Auto to Prog.

Press OK to make the P1/P9 adjustable.

Use the (-) or (+) keys to choose P1 to P9, or U1 to U4 (User Deﬁned Programs).

Select and validate with (OK) to return to Auto.

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4 User Deﬁned Programs U1 to U4

You set “on” and “off” times for each period, up to 3 periods per day eg. Morning, afternoon and evening. Between time periods, temperature will default to “Setback”.

If for example at a weekend you only need your heating to come “on” and “off” once, you only need to set period 1 and skip the others.

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4.1 Creating User Deﬁned Programs

Use the navigation keys to move from Auto to Prog as previous. Press (OK) to make P1/P9 adjustable.

Use the (-) or (+) keys to choose P1 to P9, or U1 to U4.

Select any of U1 to U4 as this allows each time clock to store up to 4 user deﬁned programs in its memory.

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With U1 to U4 blinking press the (OK) key to access the program settings.

- The program creation will always start with the Monday.

Once you have pressed the (OK) key, the following display will appear:

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Adjust the hour of the ﬁrst step of the program with (-) or (+).

Press (OK) to validate and jump to the following step.

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You will then see the below screen

You can set this period to run to the end of the day (midnight) by pressing (OK) or, use the (+) button to set the “off” time for this period.

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If all periods for this day are ﬁnished press (OK) to accept or press (+) button to set the start time for the next period.

Repeat previous steps until all periods are set and press (OK) to complete.

You then have the option to copy this period to other days, or create new programmes for each day.

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You can scroll between “Yes” and “No” using the (+) and (-) keys. Pressing the (OK) button will accept you selection. You can copy to each day individually or scroll to “No” and create new programmes as previously.

To edit and existing user deﬁned programme, select the existing programme in the Prog menu (U1 - U4) and press (OK) button. You will then be given the option “Edit Prog” “Yes” or “No”

Press (OK) to validate and jump to ﬁnish the program setting of day 1 (Monday).

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Selecting “No” will take you back to AUTO mode, selecting “Yes” will give you the option to erase “Yes” or “No”. Selecting “Yes” will clear the previous programme and allow you to start from the begining. Selecting “No” will allow you to edit the existing programme, scroll through days with the (-) or (+) key, then press (OK) on the day you wish to edit. Once complete, press (OK) to accept the programme and return to AUTO mode.

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5 Operating Menus

5.1 Automatic Mode (Auto)

In this mode the time clock will follow the chosen program (Built-in or User deﬁned) according to the time.

5.2 Off Mode (Off)

Use this mode if you wish to turn off your time clock.

Frost protection is automatically provided as a minimum temperature of 5.0ºC will be maintained.

(This temperature can be changed, contact your installer or check advanced menu).

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5.3 Holiday Mode (Hol)

The Holiday mode allows you to adjust the time clock for a period of days:

The display will show “no” press (OK)

- adjust the duration in hours with (-) or (+) press (OK) to validate.

- adjust the duration in days with (-) or (+) press (OK) to validate (adjustable 1 to 99 days).

The (On) icon will blink and the number of days remaining is displayed until the end of the period.

If you want to stop the holiday function before the end of the duration you can do so by the following steps:

- adjust the duration to 0 days

- pressing the or keys will bring up the

cancel screen, select Yes with the (-) or (+) keys and press (OK) to validate.

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5.4 Keyboard Lock Function

Use this function to prevent changes to the

settings:

- To activate the key lock function, press the two arrow keys simultaneously.

- The logo will now be displayed on the screen.

- Repeat with the same procedure to unlock the keyboard.

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6 Pre-set Programs

P1 Morning, Evening & Weekend

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

P2 Morning, Midday, Evening & Weekend

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

P3 Day & Weekend

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Mo

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

P4 Evening & Weekend

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

P5 Morning, Evening (Bathroom)

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

P6 Morning, Afternoon & Weekend

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Sa

Su

P7 7H - 19H (Ofﬁce)

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

P8 8H - 19H & Saturday (Shop)

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

Sa

Su

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0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Mo

Tu

We

Th

Fr

0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23

Sa

Su

P9 Weekend (second house)

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7 Hidden Menu:

There is a hidden menu which can be accessed by pressing and holding a combination of buttons.

The user menu can be used to set a number of user preference such as a 12 hour or 24 hour clock display, temperature readings in either degC or degF, etc and the installer menu can be used to adjust various operational settings of the unit.

The access the User menu set the unit to the (Off) setting and press and hold the (OK) button for 5 seconds.

To access the Installer menu set the unit to the (Off) mode and press and hold the (OK) button for 5 seconds.

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UFHTIME4RFB User Menu

Menu No Display Description Default Option

00 (Available

on RF versions

only)

INIt

ZonE

Sets number

of required

channels and

initiates RF

communication

All zones

are

activated

1 to 4 zones

01 dEG

Temperature

Display

Deg C Deg F

02 Time Clock Display 24H 12H

03 dSt

Automated

clock change

for Daylight

Saving time

Yes No

04 AirS

Current room

temperature

N/A None

05 AirC

Calibration of

temperature

reading

no

Displays

Temp

06 SEnS

Remote room

temperature

(“Err”: sensor

not connected)

N/A None

07 SEnC

Calibration of

remote sensor

temperature

reading

no

Displays

Temp

08 HG

Holiday mode

frost setting

5.0oC

0.5oC to

10.0oC

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UFHTIME4RFB User Menu

Menu No Display Description Default Option

09

CLr

ALL

Restore factory

Default settings

Press (OK)

during 5s

10

Software

Version

None

11 End

Return to main

screen

Press (OK)

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8 Technical Speciﬁcation

Measured Temperature Precision: 0.1ºC

Enviromental

Operating Temperature: Shipping and Storage Temperature:

0ºC - 40ºC

-10ºC to +50ºC

Setting Temperature Range

Anti freeze/OFF:

0.5ºC to 10ºC by 0.5º step

Regulation Characteristics: Hysteresis of 0.5ºC

Electrical Protection: Class II - IP30

Power Supply: Operarting Life:

2 AAA LR03 1.5V Alkaline 2 years

Optional External Sensor: 10k ohms at 25ºC

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9 Fault Diagnostics

My time clock doesn’t start

Battery Problem:

- Check if the protection sticker on the batteries is removed.

- Check the orientation of the batteries.

- Check the charge of the batteries

My time clock displays an error when backlight is off

Problem on sensors

“Err tEmP Air” (ambient sensor) : contact your installer “Err tEmP SEn” (remote sensor)

- Check the connection of the sensor

- Disconnect the sensor and check it with

an ohmmeter (the value must be around 10 kohms)

- Remove the batteries to remove the

error

Problem on keyboard

If the “Err Key” message remains after the period of displaying “Wait” please contact your installer

Battery level is low

The logo blinks (batteries) : replace the batteries

No active zone

“Error Zone” : activate at least one zone (paragraph 7)

My time clock seems work correctly but the temperature in the

room was never in accordance with the program

Program

- Check the clock.

- Check the difference between

Comfort and Setback temperature is not too high?

- Contact your installer, to check and

adjust the calibration.

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