How can you get a return temp that’s higher than the flow? Unless the heat in the HW cylinder is being sucked out by the boiler flow. My return temps are normally about 10c lower than flow when heating the HW cylinder and about 20c when space heating.
It looks like the link is providing a permanent live to terminal 1 on connector X1 which looks like it is the CH demand hence the boiler runs continually.
So the connection has been made within the boiler to connector X1 position 1 and the link removed? This is going by what the boiler install manual says.
Use the switched live orange from the NC valve to apply power to the NO valves live connection. Then when there is a call for HW the NC HW valve will apply live to the NO CH valve thus closing it.
In an arrangement where you have NC and NO valves the NC HW valve controls the NO CH valve. You just connect the orange of the NC valve to the brown of the NO valve.