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Last seen: Jul 27, 2026
January 2025 was our first month with ASHP. In 2024 we spent £3675 on LPG and electricity for the whole year. In January we spent £600 with ASHP. ...
Got home from work today. Same scenario. Nothing calling for heat. One of the cascade pumps is running - again burning high cost electricity ? What fo...
@gary thanks very much Gary. I genuinely appreciate the help. I will try all that tomorrow at 18:00 ish again and will let you know. thanks agai...
This is exactly my point. There is literally nothing running in the house except a fridge freezer and the house is burning 4kw - and the heat pump is ...
And here is the solar tracker showing that I am burning 4kw - that can only be the heat pump.
Just checked the schedule timer some photos all taken at the same time it looks like schedule1 is set Jan to Dec and schedule 2 is i...
@gary thanks Gary. This is the video I used to set the timer. so the question remains - why are the units cycling when neither heat, nor hot water ...
Sorry not entirely sure what you mean by “scheduler” or “constant”, but I have used the standard Mitsubishi controller to schedule when the hot water ...
@rob_cirrus_energy Wall construction is 100mm kingspan between concrete block and thermalite block for half the house (all built 2018 to building regs...
@samiebon1 the issue I got was that the offer isnt available any more “on a waitlist….”
@toodles I think the installer wanted to up sell / up size so gave me a rubbish EPC for MCS purposes (wrong wall spec, omitted panels, omitted LED etc...
Mitsubishi Ecodan 8,5kw x 2 (cascade)
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