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@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...
Is it the radiator side of the LLH that's not reaching temperature? Or does the heat pump monitoring show it's not achieving 50degC supply temperature...
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