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Last seen: Oct 29, 2026
@editor sorry should have been clearer - the whole house - in 30 minute intervals has never exceeded 5kw (hence 10kw for an hour - ergo a 16kw system ...
@grahamf I did mean the whole house has never- yes! But I didn’t need the tandem heat pumps. One would have been fine and half the cost. It’s true tha...
I’d agree with all of the above. Especially sequencing. But you may need to move fast to avail yourselves of VAT and BUS. Our install was massively o...
Hmmm. We have 500sq metres here (including some very high ceilings) and 16kw cascade (2 x 8 kw) Ecodan units. House is (apparently - according to our ...
Watching with interest…..
If there is a setting i must have it set! My Ecodans have been off since 20th may - only doing hot water and legionella
Great, and very helpful report thank you. I too was considering this option. We have 18 month old Ecodan units (2 of them…that work in tandem) and a l...
@majordennisbloodnok thank you. A great explanation. But why is this so complicated? How do we expect mass adoption when customers need a degree in da...
During October I have frequently run out of battery in the late and sometimes early evening. This is caused by the dunkelflaute weather - overcast, wi...
@downfield ditto. Mine is Also set to “off”. But the system time is correct ( and was correct last week) what does this feature do when “on...
@batpred that’s an idea yes. Will look into it
Interesting. I tried very hard to monitor energy consumption through the Ecodan heat pumps without any real success and it didn’t feel accurate (we ha...
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