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@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
@irmartini always good to see what I thought was happening does 😂
@lokisam Yes the glycol reduces the amount of heat the fluid can hold. There is an interesting debate on whether anti frost valves are necessary and t...
@simonh I think I know what’s happening. I have water law enabled but the room temperature is controlled via the Samsung controller which is acting as...
@simonh Hi Simon. Yes setting up weather compensation (water law) is vital to reducing bills. I am running using it so I’m not too sure of the sign...
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