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im not suggesting you have a hybrid system, although that may work for you. It’s the controls that deliver a decent heating system not the boiler or h...
@oswiu Not sure where you are with this, but go for a manufacturer where the controller can operate either a heat pump or a boiler. My preferenc...
What are people trying to achieve by widening the delta 2 the best approach is maximum flow and key the heat pump decide the rest gas boil...
As Brendon says, the trick is in the controls only add UFH if the daikin controller offers it and use their schematic and design (The controls m...
@heacol why would controls not be compensated? I’m afraid the use of on-off controls on heat pumps and gas boilers is just nonsense and not possible i...
Floor heating with an ashp is only worth doing if the pipes are in concrete and the covering ceramic or stone wood is a great insulator which i...
assuming the daikin is weather compensated, I am wondering why you would do this?
Balancing with weather compensation on gas boilers and heat pumps is about distributing heat evenly and appropriately through the system, not about ac...
I am an installer, in London. I work on a bug variety if properties, but since 2006 when I started this work, I have always followed boiler manufactur...
@oswiu actually on off controls need to be removed in their entirety from the market Compensation controls are just glorified on off control...
Manufacturers need to be more closely involved with much of the process in purchasing installing and commissioning heat pumps, may be their own certif...
@oswiu if look at vaillant and the sensocomfort or vrc700 controls their diagnostics codes reveal lots of information and the app shows energy u...
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