Last seen: Sep 17, 2025
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 ...
@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...
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself
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RE: Which temperature sensor for a Steibel buffer and Ecodan?
@ashp-bobba might be able to help as an Ecodan expert.
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
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RE: Preparing for 2nd winter in new build house.
Yuch! So that's basically just an on/off control. I...
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Good day everyone. I'm new here and have a few question...
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RE: MCS certificate SCOP vs real-world performance
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@mixergy Thanks for the update, I would appreciate some...
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