Following his recent article on inverting Alde’s 3020 screen, Nigel Hutson explains how to change the settings on the 3030
FOR THE 2023 season, vans fitted with Alde heating have had the new 3030 boiler and control panel installed. This now incorporates quite a few changes, so we thought it was worth a closer look.
The first thing you’ll notice about the control panel is the more up-to-date display, where the temperature adjustment settings are on the ‘Home’ screen. This is in response to customer requests, apparently. The main display screen (where you can see the status of various things) is now on the next screen displayed after pressing the ‘Menu’ button once.
On the bright side
As with the previous-generation 3020 system, there are various brightness settings which may be useful at night, as the ‘Home’ screen itself is very bright, even when the lowest brightness setting is selected. Although inverting the screen (swapping the colours of the background and text) makes it very colourful, it does remain quite bright as there’s so much information displayed – too bright, perhaps, for some to leave this on overnight.
There is a third option, which is to have a ‘Dark’ screen. This turns off the display after 30-seconds, although the small green LED on the main on/off button remains illuminated to show you that the system is still operating. In the ‘Dark’ mode, all you have to do to see the display is touch the screen and it will light up for 30 seconds. Should you want to alter the settings, the display will remain on for 30 seconds after any adjustments have been made. Although this is one of the simplest functions on the 3030 control panel, it’s also one of the most useful.
Let’s look in more detail, then, at how to invert the screen, how to darken it and how to adjust the brightness.
Getting started
With the Alde system turned on, press the ‘Menu’ button at the bottom right of the control panel twice. This will take you to Page 1 of 3 of the settings. Touch the ‘Page 1/3’ icon at the top right of the screen. This will take you to ‘Page 2/3’ (where you need to be).
Halfway down the list of icons on ‘Page 2/3’ you’ll see the green ‘Display’ icon. Touch this, and the next page will give you the choice of two display settings, ‘Brightness’ and ‘Status page’. Touching the ‘Status page’ icon will bring up a drop-down menu giving you three choices: ‘Normal’, ‘Inverted’ and ‘Dark’. Obviously, the ‘Normal’ setting is the default, bright-background s
