ASHP Cut-off Temper...
 
Notifications
Clear all

ASHP Cut-off Temperatures: What's Your Setting and is a Your Heating Still On?

13 Posts
10 Users
4 Reactions
674 Views
Mars
 Mars
(@editor)
Illustrious Member Admin
18462 kWhs
Veteran
Joined: 3 years ago
Posts: 2439
Topic starter  

I recently came across an interesting piece of information regarding air source heat pumps where the "accepted" ambient outdoor temperature at which ASHPs are designed to automatically turn off is 18C. Does anyone have this automated – ours isn't automated. If it is automated, at what ambient temperature does your ASHP shut down?

This topic was modified 3 months ago by Mars

Buy Bodge Buster – Homeowner Air Source Heat Pump Installation Guide: https://amzn.to/3NVndlU
From Zero to Heat Pump Hero: https://amzn.to/4bWkPFb

Follow our sustainability journey at My Home Farm: https://myhomefarm.co.uk


   
Quote
(@vince31)
Active Member Contributor
46 kWhs
Joined: 3 years ago
Posts: 4
 

Not seen a setting on our ASHP for auto cut-off temp. I normally turn it off manually for heating (not DHW) at the start of May and back on again at end of Sept, but as its manual then I can be flexible either way.  Since install in 2015 ours has been set to maintain a constant 21C 24/7 from Oct to April and this works well.


   
ReplyQuote
MikeFl
(@mikefl)
Reputable Member Member
1118 kWhs
Joined: 1 year ago
Posts: 114
 

My HP is set to "not supply any heat" above 19C external temp i.e. that's the top end of the WCC and above that it'll not run the pump. This isn't "off" though as the room stat might still be calling for heat, and so the internal pumps etc. will still be circulating water. Although at 19C outside I'd hope the house is warm enough.

I'm about to enter (hopefully!) summer #2 with it. I just left it running throughout the year (for CH and HW) - mostly it was doing nothing apart from the odd, chilly night, using <2 kWhs a day. 

Grant Aerona 3 10kW


   
ReplyQuote
 Gary
(@gary)
Reputable Member Member
1248 kWhs
Joined: 1 year ago
Posts: 125
 

I don't have auto turn off either but manually change it over to cooling the UFH if its gets too hot in the summer


   
ReplyQuote
TechnoGeek
(@technogeek)
Estimable Member Member
705 kWhs
Joined: 12 months ago
Posts: 80
 

The Samsung controller does not have an automatic cutoff and I have set mine to 16C. The heating is still on and I just leave it to do its thing and let the smart thermostat make the decisions 🙂


   
ReplyQuote
(@lechillou)
New Member Member
33 kWhs
Joined: 3 months ago
Posts: 1
 

@technogeek Yes it does. It's in the field settings


   
Mars reacted
ReplyQuote



Mars
 Mars
(@editor)
Illustrious Member Admin
18462 kWhs
Veteran
Joined: 3 years ago
Posts: 2439
Topic starter  

It’s a bit nuts. May 4th today, and our central heating is still coming on in the evenings. Crazy. Whose heating is still coming on?

Buy Bodge Buster – Homeowner Air Source Heat Pump Installation Guide: https://amzn.to/3NVndlU
From Zero to Heat Pump Hero: https://amzn.to/4bWkPFb

Follow our sustainability journey at My Home Farm: https://myhomefarm.co.uk


   
ReplyQuote
Morgan
(@morgan)
Noble Member Member
4339 kWhs
Joined: 3 years ago
Posts: 542
 

Mine is still coming on.

Retrofitted 11.2kw Mitsubishi Ecodan to new radiators commissioned November 2021.


   
ReplyQuote
TechnoGeek
(@technogeek)
Estimable Member Member
705 kWhs
Joined: 12 months ago
Posts: 80
 

@lechillou maybe I am misunderstanding, I thought the thread was referring to a designed in cutoff of 18C that cannot be adjusted. The field setting you refer to is indeed what I am setting to 16C which I have recently turn down to 15C. 😀


   
Mars reacted
ReplyQuote
TechnoGeek
(@technogeek)
Estimable Member Member
705 kWhs
Joined: 12 months ago
Posts: 80
 

@editor ours occasionally comes on in the morning if its been a cold night, 6 - 7C recently. The sun warms the house sufficiently during the day which the heat seems to last until bedtime most evenings thankfully 😀

This post was modified 3 months ago by TechnoGeek

   
Mars reacted
ReplyQuote
Abernyte
(@abernyte)
Reputable Member Member
3099 kWhs
Joined: 2 years ago
Posts: 166
 

Similarly, internal stat is set to 17C and occasionally fires up briefly in the morning. Solar thermal is now doing the DHW, tank 60C + most days. Solar gain, should we be that lucky, raises the house temp. 


   
ReplyQuote
Toodles
(@toodles)
Famed Member Contributor
6432 kWhs
Joined: 2 years ago
Posts: 1009
 

@technogeek Our Homely controller turns the heating on for perhaps an hour sometime between midnight and six in the morning, today (wall to wall sunshine at the moment) I would imagine it will be getting some zeds in until perhaps 20:30 or so, then stay on for two - three hours, just topping up heating occasionally. Regards, Toodles.

Toodles, 76 years young and hoping to see 100 and make some ROI on my renewable energy investment!


   
ReplyQuote



Page 1 / 2



Share:

Join Us!

Latest Posts

Members Online

 No online members at the moment

x  Powerful Protection for WordPress, from Shield Security
This Site Is Protected By
Shield Security