Last seen: Jul 11, 2025
@pressure Well mine was a new installation in this house, but if upgrading I would definitely install anti frost valves if you are using antifreeze so...
Couldnt you just replace the old Heat Pump unit, leaving everything else as it is? My 5kW Samsung cost just over 2K last year and its simple to switch...
I remember watching a heat geek video about the effects of unheated rooms and how it would impinge on efficiency as the flow temperature in other room...
@jancold yes it’s fine to oversize them, you can just limit their output as required with the valves. It gives you some more flexibility as to room...
@robl Thanks, thats interesting 🙂
@sunandair So my take on it would be that having the walls thermal mass inside the insulation layer, would act as a thermal store and be ideal for 24/...
Two other things that greatly effect SCOP but havent been mentioned are the climate where you are living and what you deem to be a comfortable interna...
Its a big house Alan so getting an accurate heat loss will be important. If I were you I would try and go lower than 54C with your boiler during a col...
@dinhp dont have second thoughts about your weather compensation setting. Lower is better for COP. Im not sure what you mean by: Samsung manual o...
@dinhp Ive worked out the daily COP below and added my Outside Air Temperature, yours might be quite a bit cooler depending on where you live: ...
@dinhp I have a Samsung, so happy to answer any questions I can. It seems you have done an excellent job of altering the settings and I cant believe...
@emceed even something like these taped to your pipes with insulation over the top will give you some idea what’s going on if you don’t want to spend ...
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