Besides, doesn't that defeat the purpose of my temperature-controlled room sensors... because the heating is always on...??? I thought I set the temperature in the room and the controller takes care of it....
So, as in my case currently set to 20 degrees:
> too cold > controller opens flow until 20 degrees is reached again
> too warm > controller stops flow until the temperature falls below 20 degrees again...
As a result, once the set temperature is reached in the house, the flow is only open in a few rooms > the boiler cannot modulate down on this small heat demand (because approx. 7 kW minimum).... therefore the heat exchanger heats up too quickly and the boiler switches off (reaching the maximum set supply temperature)... and then switches back on again (it cycles) i.e. only pulse-type / slow heating of the rooms.
Example description of how I understood it as a layman:
Your variant:
You have now reached 20 degrees in your rooms. The valve closes. However, the heating doesn’t know about this (probably controlled by outside temperature and return temperature) and runs at 45 degrees against the closed valve.
No heating energy reaches the room anymore, but the 45 degrees warm water in your floor first heats the room further. After some time, the floor starts to lose heat over a few hours, then the room slowly cools down and then your temperature controller eventually recognizes that it’s below 20 degrees again. So valve opens again.
In the meantime, your heating system has noticed through the warm return flow that the energy isn’t leaving and stops heating further. Eventually, the significantly colder return flow from the previously shut-off circuits comes, and your heating switches on again. Then it has to heat the estimated 20 degrees return water back up to 45 degrees supply and pumps it back into your circuit. The floor heats up again first, then slowly the room and at some point your controller notices that it is again above 20 degrees. Then it closes. But you still have 45 degrees warm water in the floor that continues heating the room…. And the cycle starts all over again.
My variant:
The heating runs around the clock and pumps the warm water according to the supply temperature along the heating curve into the rooms (currently with -4 degrees outside temperature approx. 30 degrees supply). The water returns at about 27 degrees, the heating heats the three degrees back up and lets it circulate again.
You can calculate for yourself which variant causes the heating to cycle more, has a higher electricity consumption, or makes the rooms more evenly warm etc.