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@johnmo Thanks for clearing up the matter of defrosts during DHW cycles. I was just guessing really. Wouldnt it be more likely though that the HP woul...
@chandykris I know people who had had IR panels and they found them effective. My worry would be the running costs, unless you only heat the room you ...
@jancold Ive never heard of a ASHP not starting because the temperature was too high. Perhaps someone else on here might know if that was possible? ...
@chandykris 👍. They should sort you out. I’m very impressed with Szymon‘s videos.
@chandykris Im late to the party here, but from your description of the property, a 14kW heat pump seems rather large. Using the heat geek cheat she...
@jancold The only reason i can think of to suggest using the immersion in summer would be to turn the heat pump off completely to avoid its standby lo...
@jeff Im a great believer in nudges. If the price of electricity was lowered to more closely reflect its production costs, that would be all the incen...
@davidalgarve Lol no problem re the name. I done some back of the fag packet calculations and if you were heating your tank from 35 to 50 C each day...
@davidalgarve is that a 12kw heat pump David? Do you know how many kWh you use to heat your tank? If so divide it by you hot water COP and see if t...
@davidalgarve No. the ashp if the most efficient way of heating your domestic hot water. Immersion heaters only have a COP of 1. The battery just give...
I have a power diverter and it’s works great but now I don’t use it. The reason why is because the tariff I’m on pays me more to export my excess t...
@johnmo @editor My self install. 5kW Samsung, Mixergy cylinder and limited radiator upgrades probably cost me about £6000 (inc plumber for pressuris...
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