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Forum Handle: adrian Manufacturer: Appliandirect.co.uk Model: Superheat R32 7kW Type: ASHP Arrangement: Mono Area of Country: Schleswig-Hol...
Thanks all, all seems a bit of a mess and probably all a result of the fact that the governments listen to too many lobbyists which come in two flavou...
That’s very disappointment. Like nobody bothered to even ask the most basic questions of the installers. Like would this work? Are you interested? So ...
Manufacturer: appliances direct/superheat Model: 7Kw Type: ASHP. Arrangement: Monoblock + single zone, open loop. No hot water Area of Country...
I think you can set the temperature to very low 5C in the time weekly timer. Either do it for the full period when the fire is expected to be on, or y...
Btw, fixing your system so the underfloor heating is working is definitely by far the best you can do to improve your COP substantially. It also provi...
The system doesn’t seem to have return or deltat as a value. For that you’d need something like openenergymonitor. For the cycling I have home assista...
Hi David, as I understand it running the system in active mode means that it is not running in pure weather compensation mode and is hence a little le...
I’ve got a similar system, but it’s a 5kW unit, I understand that is the same hardware as the 3.5. I get a mildly disappointing 3.8 cop. This seems to...
Good old physics tells us that it is impossible to not have to put extra energy in to get the temperature up without putting extra energy in. I havent...
@cathoderay the principle is as probably described somewhere above, that the energy usage is directly proportional to the deltaT between outside and i...
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