Low flow setpoint short-cycling

[wintersteiger]

This is clearly not an OTGW question, but I wonder whether someone in this forum could help my understand my boiler's behaviour. If there's a better suited forum for this kind of question, I'd be grateful for pointers!

The behaviour that I'm observing is that the boiler fires in irregular, short intervals when I set the flow setpoint to 5C, while both outside temperature and flow temperature are > 20C. Instead of turning it off altogether, I figured it would be fine to set it to a low setpoint, but apparently it doesn't like that. This is what it looks like:

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There was no DHW activity during this time and the master-OTC bit was disabled (ID1:HB3=0). I've seen the same with OTC enabled just a few hours later though:

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I have absolutely no idea why it would do that. "Master low-off" in the OpenTherm specification sounds related and I see ID3:HB4=0. Does that mean I'm not supposed to "go low" instead of turning CH off? The boiler also reports MaxTSet-LB = 30C (ID49:HB). Is this an attempt to tell me that it wants me to keep TSet > 30 (instead of MAX TSet)?

(Boiler is an Ideal Vogue Max Combi 32kW.)

[sergeantd]

Ideal, Intergas and Immergas ( Well Immergas can go low if you use the TSP commands ) can’t go officially “low”, unless you suppress the boiler flow water temperature.