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Why must it? Heat loss is proportional to the difference between indoor and outdoor temperatures. Heat loss Q depends on the thermal transmission va...
I voted "generally good" although it would have been "very pleased" were it not for a fault on the indoor unit which can't be blamed on the installer ...
Is that actually true though? See the other thread entitled "heat pump myths". The cooler a house is at any given time, the less heat it is losing to ...
I'm confused, aren't the room stats supposed to be turning the flow on and off, while the weather compensation controls how hot the flow is? It seem...
The other variable, which applies to me and I suspect quite a few other people, is variable electricity tariffs. My energy costs about 33% less overni...
I believe that is actually a COP of 3. The energy yield is the excess heat generated, on top of the electricity used. So you have produced (222+444) o...
My outdoor unit had similar damage to the fins - it looks like it's only very small areas and ours was similar - the bottom corner had obviously been ...
The room thermostat controls when the UFH calls for heat, and the weather compensation controls the flow temperature that the heat pump delivers. Is t...
I'm trying to work out the best way to run my ASHP with Economy 7. Our cheap tariff runs from 11.30pm to 6.30am. At the moment I have the thermostat s...
I would also add that having checked out the Bulb tariff for non Economy 7, the rate is only slightly lower than my existing tariff (34.2258p versus 3...
Hello, I posted this in the welcome thread so I wasn’t expecting to get my own thread 😀 Some more info: Electricity rates: night 23.9p, day 36.8p...
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