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@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 ...
@emceed I assume you have a 3 way valve controlling the direction of water flow to either the space heating or DHW. Its possible that they can stick I...
@emceed Hi. Im not an installer but as no one else has answered you, I will try and help. 28mm copper pipes can move about 10 kW of heat at 0.9 m/...
@mike-h Thanks for that clear explanation Mike. Very useful.
@simonh I stumbled across this which relevant
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