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Last seen: Apr 30, 2026
Just seen the videos for the new arotherm pro. They’ve managed to get a 7kw into a 3.5/5 chassis. I’ve still got the noise issue that no one at Vailla...
Heard a rumour Vaillant are shelving the 7kw and brining out an 8kw. Wonder what the threshold is for getting our noisy units swapped.
@jamespa the installer did fit primary pro flexis which aren’t that flexible. Because they had to move them as they were bending them which the manufa...
@jamespa They came and after a bit of push back accepted my idea to put all 4 sensors in the same place indoors and wait for them to balance. Now hav...
Got Vaillant coming on Monday. Any tips on how to get them to sort the sensors and humming sound in the house?
@simonf I’ll give it a go. I’m a bit worried they will try and charge me though as been warned by them in the past when the installer tried to arrange...
@editor I find this sort of response from the manufacturers to only reinforce news outlets like GB news view of heat pumps. They ran a story recently ...
@agentgeorge that would be a great idea. My installer knows about my problem but isn’t sure how to fix as I’m guessing they don’t want to buy a pile o...
@simonf I did try swapping them twice and in both cases the gap increased by 0.2 to 0.3 compared to the shipped position error of 0.5/6. ive tried c...
So it seems probably most of the issues I’ve had are down to bad flow and return sensors. With them swapped around I’m now getting what I can only ass...
@agentgeorge if it is i need to somehow tweak it to match as its confusing the heat pump. 0.5c apparently skews the cop by about 25% up or down depend...
on the batteries front i would defo get to at least 24kwh. the solar will help to a degree in stretching the capacity as it can add some during the da...
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