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You're consuming significantly less kWh per day after the cold snap with the WC enabled than you were before at comparable outdoor temperatures. So th...
Some of the A2W ASHPs also can cool in summer. Most can, they are all reversible circuit heat pumps. But for MCS and 'renewable' restrictions in the U...
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...
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...
@andehh the Samsung EHS Mono HT has a more complicated refrigeration system with intercoolers to stop the refrigeration circuit cooking itself for hig...
@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 ...
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...
@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...
@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 ...
@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 ...
@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...
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