Last seen: Oct 11, 2025
@bami old scientist has a good call there. I don’t use my Samsung to heat DHW as I have a Mixergy tank so aren’t familiar with the settings.
@bami is there a cylinder schematic? Failing that a make and model might be enough to look up.
@bami I feel pretty safe then 😁. As a matter of interest where abouts is the coil and the sensor ?
@bami lol. I could be wrong 😆
@bami it may be to do with the position of the temperature sensor in the tank. If it’s half way down the top of the tank will be hotter than the set t...
@sandman1600 Thinking about it, my head was in radiator mode. Using under floor heating you can probably knock 5C off both of my suggested flow temper...
@sandman1600 That’s correct. The weather compensation takes over control of the flow temperature according to that little graph that is shown. It’s...
@sandman1600 so what that is showing is that at -3C outside your flow temperature is 55C and at 25C outside your flow temperature is 25C. Between t...
@editor It really just is a case of greed and easy money I fear, Mars
@johnr The really annoying thing about the high service costs is that servicing a heat pump is a lot less hassle than a gas boiler. All that is requir...
Ive done some rough calculations on those figures after trying to add in the wood and Ive come up with a demand of about 19.5kW at -3C to achieve 21C ...
@sandman1600 Yes, you have the idea of what you need to achieve. Ive no doubt you will see much reduced energy usage very soon. 🙂
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