Grant Aerona 13KW - can I boost it?
Posted by: @allyfishtotal energy bills for a 4-bed all-electric house at under £1K at year,
That sounds cheap - well done. Much cheaper than us.
@johnmo I think it’s fairly big.
house itself is 294sqm. Year 1 all good. There had been a debate about whether to install 13kW or 17kW model but with the house being quite efficient and underfloor heating downstairs throughout, the installers plumped for 13KW.
Last year we built a large garage with office/man cave above. Downstairs is 72sqm is currently not heated, although the plumbing is there. The upstairs is 48 sqm and it is heated.
After adding this, the system didn’t deliver comfort temps quite as well. Grant believed the system needed more volume and recommended the external volumiser with immerser. On the original install we had no practicable space for a LLH.
Here’s the house after garage built last year.
it has underfloor all downstairs.
8 rads upstairs.
3 additional rads upstairs in the garage.
on the non visible side of the garage roof it has 5.46kw solar array and contained inside the garage is a 10KW battery.
I would like to add more solar and another 10KW of battery storage. Maybe a project for next spring.
We had our first frost proper air frost night last night since the install and all good. I noticed a new icon on the controller indicating the external volumiser/immerser had activated.
house was lovely and warm this morning. All comfort temps comfortably maintained.
one other thought I have ahead of winter is my Delta T. This is currently 6 but I wonder if I can get it to 8. I have the pump speed on the medium setting. If I lower that would I likely get an increment on the delta T?
I know that little icon on the controller! It was popping up for me the other morning when the immersion supplemented defrost. I wouldn’t be remotely concerned about delta T. For Grant units it is up to 8degK, but will often be less on a fixed speed/volume flow system depending on load. Mine sits around 3-5degK normally. Slowing the pump down might drop the system flow a little too low & cause some rads to have insufficient output.
We’ve had a few cold night now. Some nights ranging from 3 at 8pm dropping to -3 overnight and still at -1 at 9am the following morning.
it struggled with this last year. We were coming down to 19 degrees typicallly.
Since the external heated Volumiser has been added it’s been a big difference so far. Comfort temps being met easily. Whole house at 22 and no longer calling for heat when I get up.
It’s set for 21.5 so will go up to 22 before the heating demand cuts off.
This with the 3kW immersion energised during defrost @marvinator80? It's transformed my unit performance when in regular defrost mode. The leaving water temperature doesn't drop like a stone as it used to, by a few degC, which is much quicker to recover from.
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