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@david999 I haven't seen glycol in a system for about 2 years if I'm honest. Anti freeze valves all the way for me. Glycol is horrible stuff that make...
@david999 the student will become the master 😀
@david999 I was trying to be lenient on the installers but that's taking the "biscuit". Good luck and post how you get on 👍
@david999 haha atleast the freezing was resolved. Isolation valves around the 3 port would be nice as long as they are full bore (full flow) althoug...
@david999 Hi David, that all seems fairly reasonable, and if Samsung have signed off on it and you have that in writing then great. It is alarmingly c...
@david999 That pump is a very small 6m head pump, I think at your target of 45lpm that pump can only produce something like 1.8m head. The pressure...
@david999 If you had 36-40lpm I would accept as you know it would atleast be able to supply enough heat for your particular property, with only being...
@david999 11.19kw heat loss means that you need a minimum of around 35-36l/m to meet the heat load at the design temperature, if you are only getting ...
@david999 Hi David, sorry I'm not quite sure what you mean? Heat pump systems can go into 100's of kw, even megawatt systems. If your heat loss is i...
@david999 if it's an MCS registered install you must be given a copy of the heat loss calculations which should be your starting point. 29lpm is rou...
@david999 out of interest what was the heatloss figure for the property? 46lpm is correct for a 16kw heatload, however the Samsung can only output a...
@toodles You have 3 settings on the PWM settings in the MMI controller. You can set it to: UFH which is slow response, adjustable DT Fan convect...
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