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Honeywell Smartfit sets the new standard for central heating control

BRACKNELL, UK, 26 JANUARY 2000 - Honeywell, the most trusted name in central heating controls, has launched a new system that removes the difficulty of wiring a home central heating system and reduces installation time. Honeywell Smartfit features low voltage wiring and plug-in control connections to minimise the chance of errors and to make wiring quicker and simpler.

Honeywell introduced its Sundial Plans some thirty years ago and they were quickly adopted as the industry standard. Honeywell now sets the new, de facto standard for central heating controls with its low-voltage, plug-in Smartfit system. Smartfit provides installers with greater productivity and the means to higher profit margins.

"Smartfit marks the most fundamental change in the installation of home heating controls since Sundial Plans," said Mike Ward, Honeywell UK Director of Home and Building Control Products. "Few domestic appliances have not changed radically to benefit from the latest technologies over the last thirty years. However, we recognise that change is difficult in the domestic heating market, so Smartfit has been designed to look and feel like a traditional system."

Central to Smartfit is a new connection box that provides plug-in or simple 2-wire connection for all space heating and hot water controls. There is no need for a wiring diagram: installers simply connect the two-wire room unit, plug in the valves and cylinder sensor, and the system is complete, whether it is an S-Plan or Y-Plan.

All Honeywell Smartfit system connections are low voltage and polarity-free. Although installers still need to make mains voltage connections to the pump and boiler, even these have been reduced to one wire per terminal. By comparison, traditional systems require more than 30 wires to be prepared and connected correctly, mains voltage being carried to every unit in the system and sometimes with several wires at a single terminal.

Honeywell Smartfit valves have snap-on actuator heads with plug-in connections back to the base unit. The same actuator unit fits onto all valve bodies. The elegant Smartfit programme controller provides a single point of control for all space heating and hot water programmes. It also includes a built-in diagnostics facility that enables faults to be quickly identified and remedied, reducing call-backs and saving installers’ time and cost. The final component of the Honeywell Smartfit system is a cylinder sensor that also features plug-in connections back to the base unit.

In developing Smartfit, Honeywell researched the biggest problems facing installers and developed Smartfit to remove the difficulties of wiring and fault finding. Honeywell also researched householders’ wishes, so that the Smartfit controller brings together central heating and hot water control in a single, stylish unit.

All this, coupled with the established Honeywell renown for quality and reliability, adds up to happy customers, profitable installation and enhanced reputation.

Readers can request further details from: Honeywell Control Systems Ltd., Honeywell House, Arlington Business Park, Bracknell, Berkshire RG12 1EB. Tel: 01344 656000. Fax: 01344 656240.
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Web: www.honeywell.com/uk/homes/smartfit.htm

Honeywell is a US$24-billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; power generation systems, speciality chemicals; fibres; plastics; and electronic and advanced materials. The company employs approximately 120,000 people in 95 countries. Honeywell is traded on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HON, as well as on the London, Chicago and Pacific stock exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index. Additional information on the company is available on the Internet at: http://www.honeywell.com
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Honeywell Europe, Middle East & Africa employs 25,500 people in 49 countries. Sales in 1999 were US$6.4-billion. The company’s regional headquarters are in Brussels.

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