Last seen: Sep 17, 2025
@cathoderay I think you should qualify this with Air to Water heat pumps. Air to Air are quite capable of rapid heating for short periods of time in a...
@goody Its unusual for a heat pump to be undersized under the MCS protocols, its usually vastly the opposite. Cant you just swap it out for a bigger o...
@zoomuno You dont have to run it 24/7. I dont. However if you really only use the heating very sparingly then I think perhaps and air to air heat pump...
@goody I can only assume you had a terrible install? My heat pump is much cheaper to run than the gas combi I had previously and my house isnt very we...
@alfapat So the problems you have are that your house has a large heat loss (Im assuming it is a big house), your system was designed to run at a h...
@alfapat so buffer tanks act as a big roundabout for the water. Flow comes in from the heat pump and back and water goes to the heating circuit and ba...
@alfapat OK. thanks for the information. It looks like your system was designed to run at 50C when at -4C outside. The yearly electricity use for s...
@alfapat Sorry, missed the (large) tank comment 🙂 OK if the original install was for 25 kW then the 16 kW alone probably isnt oversized, but it su...
@alfapat Thats the document! unfortunately I cant read it from the images, they are probably compressed for the forum. I will pm you my email address,...
@alfapat So you should have been given the heat loss calculation when you had the heat pump installed. It has to be done by the installer. I think t...
@johnnyb So here is a day where I was cycling although not frequently The interesting bits are just as the heat pumps starts up again. Flow temper...
@johnnyb If its PWM controlled you should have two cables running to it, one for power and the other for the optional PWM control. Not all pumps can d...
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