Have emailed valiant about the hysteresis ( a new word I have learnt ) as everything is running nicely at CP1, would like to keep it there for at least a week, so I know I have somewhere to go back to also at CP2 and especially CP3 the return temperature was rather high, non condensing. But will try next week.
You mentioned increasing the rad sizes so I came up with the following numbers based on that., I based them on doubling the rad outputs but can calculate it for any increase you want.
Based on your actual results it seems that you have a a relatively small installation with total rad output of ~ 9 kw.
If you look at the 9kw base below (top row) you can see that your actual output is 6.73kw with a return of 52C. If you were to increase (second row) the flow rate (CP2/CP3) to 0.63M3/hr to keep the boiler happy then by reducing the flow temp to 60C you will still get a return of 52C BUT a reduced output of 5.87kw, you would againthen need to up the flow temp on HW.
If you now doubled the rad outputs to 18kw, again with a happy boiler flowrate of ~ 0.6M3/hr, you can see the effect of different flow temps on rad output etc, if you select a flow temp of 60C then you will get a return of 44C and a output of 10kw, you would need to up the flow temp on HW.
If you select a flow temp of 72C then you will get a return of 52C and 14.35kw output and so on.
Table Below might be of some help.
| | | Flow | Return | DeltaT | Boiler | Boiler | Boiler |
| | | Temp | Temp | Temp | Output | FlowRate | FlowRate |
| Deg rad | Output | Deg.C | Deg.C | Deg.C | KW | LPM | M3/hr |
9KW Base | 40 | 75% | 68 | 52 | 16 | 6.73 | 6.03 | 0.36 |
| 36 | 65% | 60 | 52 | 8 | 5.87 | 10.52 | 0.63 |
| | | | | | | | |
18KW Base | 32 | 56% | 60 | 44 | 16 | 10.08 | 9.03 | 0.54 |
| 38 | 70% | 68 | 48 | 20 | 12.60 | 9.03 | 0.54 |
| 42 | 80% | 72 | 52 | 20 | 14.35 | 10.28 | 0.62 |