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30/11/2024 10:46 am  

@jamespa it is a good idea, but not easy as you say. We actually have something along these lines scheduled in for recording next week Friday for the podcast.

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30/11/2024 1:02 pm  

This article highlights important factors to consider when installing a heat pump. Identifying red flags, such as poor sizing, improper installation, and lack of maintenance plans, ensures you avoid costly mistakes and achieve optimal system performance.

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30/11/2024 5:41 pm  

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If I had a new ASHP installed I would still have to have a hot water cylinder. I watched the relevant video on this site. But I don't need any buffer unit. 

Can I get clarification on this point. 

Can the ASHP External unit, supply heat for Central Heating radiators or UFH at one temperature and one set of F&R pipes and do that supply directly? Bypassing the cylinder?

Or have I got that completely wrong and need to go away and do some serious reading? 🤔 

 

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30/11/2024 7:15 pm  

Posted by: @nogotony
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Posted by: @gt22
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If I had a new ASHP installed I would still have to have a hot water cylinder. I watched the relevant video on this site. But I don't need any buffer unit. 

Can I get clarification on this point. 

Can the ASHP External unit, supply heat for Central Heating radiators or UFH at one temperature and one set of F&R pipes and do that supply directly? Bypassing the cylinder?

Or have I got that completely wrong and need to go away and do some serious reading? 🤔 

 

The ASHP, just like a boiler, can supply water at only one temperature at any time.  So it switches between space heating and DHW.  There will be one set of F&R from the heat pump, which splits into two sets at a diverter valve. 

The reason that boilers (as we set them up in the UK) can do both simultaneously is that they run the heating at a high flow temperature, resulting in both reduced comfort and a 10% increase in energy consumption and therefore cost.  Boilers, like heat pumps, are actually best run at a low temperature with weather compensation (best both for comfort and cost!), but in the UK we rarely do this, unlike some more enlightened countries in mainland Europe.

 

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19/01/2025 3:36 pm  

Read your Red Flags with interest. Presently tweaking my system and getting the flow temperatures down as for the past 8 yrs It has been set at 50c
Currently adjusted lockshield valves to balance the Rads and brought the flow temps down to 44c without realising musch difference . I notice you suggest 38c which is quite low to what I have had it set but willing to try.

Can I ask what flow speed can my system run at , I notice there is a graduated glass viewing setting.

I also have a buffer tank in the system which I have only discovered from this forum may not be needed . However its there and reluctant to change , due to cost.


   
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