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@marvinator80 ahhh, right, check the cylinder stat. Here's the info for that stat in Appendix A p.30. When the stat is demanding heating, the green LE...
@hughf refrigerant charge quantity is critical. The best place to charge the unit is in the factory when built, where equipment is calibrated and cont...
I would use the ASHP for HW generation, as, even accounting for the fairly slow pre-heat time when the flow through the ASHP cools a bit before warmin...
"He's got heat meters fixed to the pipework. Room temperature monitors" @mjr they got thrown under the BUS. The current BUS scheme requires no energ...
@andris EPCs can be a load of rubbish, my EPC when I was heating by oil rated my main heating and hot water was 'average' with a boiler that was 80% e...
@marvinator80 sounds all good. Pleased it has gone well. My wallet-busting 260kWh consumption last week was offset a little by a decent 60kWh solar PV...
@derek-m good point. I had an iboost fitted 6 months ago. More recently had a 6.5kWh Growatt battery fitted to my Solar PV. I have found that charging...
ASHP running costs can go up massively when the average daily temperature drops near freezing, defrost cycles start kicking in, and the house heating ...
@marvinator80 if your Grant installer has used external 3rd party time clock for daily HW cycle and external 3rd party thermostat for CH control, they...
@marvinator80 great all is installed and running. I have set the cylinder stat to 50degC, which requires the ASHP to provide water at 55degC. It usual...
@parmstar Great, les us know how you get on. Piping on your circuit is simple enough, and with a hybrid bivalent system I can see the LLH being of ben...
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