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Hello Chaps! I am boiling!!

I am having trouble reducing the temperature in my room. Can't get it to go below 40 degrees C!!!

Also what does 외출 mean on the control panel?

[Cave Dweller]

외출 means going out. It can help to keep the temperature to a certain level when you are gone so the pipes don't freeze solid.

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I have asked the landlord a few times to help but he tells me to just open the windows - surely there must be a way to regulate the temperature. I think room temperature should be somewhere between 20 and 26 degrees. But this seems to be stuck at 40!!

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thx

[Fox]

That's the water temperature rather than the room temperature, isn't it? Can you change the setting to 실온 (room temperature)?

[CentralCali]

설정 Settings
온돌 Ondol (heating the floor)
난방 Heating (the air)
온수 Hot water (not heating the air or the floor, use for hot bath)
온수온도 Hot water temperature
연소 Combustion (lets you know the heater is heating the water)
외출 "Out of town" (as mentioned up-thread, this is to keep a little heat in the pipes so they don't freeze)
절약 Saving (I think that's energy saving mode)
실온/온돌 Room temperature/Ondol (when the thermostat reaches the selected temperature, the water heater turns off)

You press the appropriate button for what you want the thing to do and look at the display. When the display matches your selection, then you can choose a higher or lower temperature for some of the selections. Note that when you have ondol selected, you also get hot water for the bath, so you need to keep that in mind in case you like your hot water a bit cooler than your ondol.

[Fox]

I've never used the thermostat you've got there, but this says that if you first turn off the 난방 button and then push the 외출 and 절약 buttons at the same time, you can toggle between 실내온도난방 and 온돌난방. If it works, 실온 should appear above the temperature figure.

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Thanks guys! That did the trick!

[Lazio]

Your heater was running every 30 minutes for 20 minutes.
I believe the 40C is the water temperature that was circulating in the floor and not the room temperature.
I found that control panel to be the easiest to handle. I have a Kiturami boiler now but when the time comes to replace it I will get a Rinnai.

Also, your boiler is tankless and you can keep the hot water setting (for shower, dishes etc.) ON all the time, it will only heat the water if you turn on the hot water at the tap so there is no energy wasted even if you are away for weeks. Press the 온수 button, this will turn on the hot water and under that button there is 온수온도 which can adjust the water temperature in three steps. 1, 2 or 3 bars will appear on the display as you are pressing it. In summer 1 is plenty enough but in winter you should use 2 or 3 as the water entering the system is very cold.

[Weigookin74]

Geeze 40 degrees would suck. I haven't even turned on my heat yet. Usually, it's the last week of November before I do so, in a typical year here. I think Koreans have had thiers on at night for the past week or two between 25 and 30 according to what some have told me.

Glad you got er fixed. Damn! I hate heat!!

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[EZE]

Man am I ever glad this thread was posted. Mine was on 40 the past couple of winters and I didn't know how to dial it down. I thought it was impossible. I'd leave it on for an hour or two and turn it off, but my gas bill was higher than I wanted.

But after reading Fox's post, I did the thing where I pressed the two buttons simultaneously. Now it says "room temperature 20 degrees," but the rectangle with the three waves with "heating" above it isn't on unless I press the "heating" button. I'm hoping it's not going to burn gas and keep my apartment at 20 degrees, unless I actually push the heating button. I won't need heat until the temperature inside my apartment falls below 14. That's when I have to worry about the pipes freezing.

[Lazio]

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Water freezes at 14 degrees?