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AllyFish
@allyfish
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4216 kWhs
Joined: Oct 31, 2022
Last seen: Mar 19, 2025
Topics: 22 / Replies: 457
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RE: My ASHP is running out of hot water

Hello @Curlykatie, How much hot water do you get through as a family? 300L is decent sized cylinder, charging for 1hr a day should be plenty assumin...

2 years ago
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RE: Heat Pumps - An Expensive Folly?

Well, if ASHPs are an expensive folly, I'm a fool. Currently I'm requiring about 86kWh a day for heating 3/4 floor area of the house and daily hot w...

2 years ago
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RE: Samsung Launches the EHS Mono HT Quiet – A High Temperature, Low Noise Heat Pump Ideal for Home and Building Renovations

@andehh the Samsung EHS Mono HT has a more complicated refrigeration system with intercoolers to stop the refrigeration circuit cooking itself for hig...

2 years ago
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RE: 17kw Grant Aerona heat pump not performing

@soniks this is good news. I'm going to contact Grant regarding why my weather compensation was not enabled, as you point out, it's clearly stated as ...

2 years ago
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RE: Looking at putting in a PV system

Hi Jeff. Solar PV panels are now £0.50 per watt, electricity cost is only going in one direction, so max out all available roof space. Exporting power...

2 years ago
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RE: 17kw Grant Aerona heat pump not performing

@soniks use the default Grant settings as a start. Have you found out why your ASHP is cycling on and off and what is causing it? That's a separate is...

2 years ago
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RE: 17kw Grant Aerona heat pump not performing

@soniks it's exactly as per @derek-m comment. Something is switching your ASHP on and off 2 or 3 times an hour. Because of that your flow temperature ...

2 years ago
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RE: Another 17kw Grant Heat Pump - Advice Needed!

@bretix we're all learning on these systems 🙂 I would set the secondary pump to full flow, always. If the pipe distance between your low loss header ...

2 years ago
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RE: Another 17kw Grant Heat Pump - Advice Needed!

@bretix the dial on the HW cylinder is just a cylinder stat, turn and set it to whatever hot water storage temperature you want, it will then revert t...

2 years ago
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RE: Vaillant 10kw ASHP installation. Installer issues

Oversize unit: it may cycle in and off more on low output, as the heating load might be below the minimum turn down capacity of the unit. That will co...

2 years ago
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RE: ASHP at cold temperatures

As Osiwu says, short circuiting of the evaporator airflow, where the discharge air ends up back at the coil inlet face, will reduce performance. But t...

2 years ago
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RE: Rate the quality of your heat pump design and installation

Really sorry to read this @jswhite. 16kW is a large unit for 120m2 heated area, especially if you usually have diversity and only some rooms heated. Y...

2 years ago
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