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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I don't doubt the physics, I've even applied the equation to two conditions, but am still left confused, and I'd bet the house on the fact that I am n...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

It is a bog standard Freedom installation, my installer had their installation manual in his hands as he did it, as far as the heat pump piping is con...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Thanks for confirming, much appreciated.

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I know the feeling! I have been known to say you only need one meter for a heating system, and it is inside you. If you are warm and comfy, then the s...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

First, quiescent use: taking readings from the external dedicated kWh meter, which reads to one decimal place, the heat pump used 0.2kWh over the 12 h...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I don't. It also depends on whether system means entire system (primary and secondary circuits combined) or just the primary circuit, but then that do...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Quick remark: yes it is, but I'm still trying to get my head round what the detrimental effects of a PHE are. I've tried seeing them as a sort of obst...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

@jamespa - I wrote that before I read your rephrasing the question suggestion. It was my way of phrasing it as an anomaly/paradox/whatever you want to...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I really should have written up my method notes better at the time, but what I think I can say is this. I based the oil calculation on the fill data f...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

No, you didn't misread, that is correct. Interestingly, the Midea kWh out is probably not dissimilar. The current lifetime energy out figure is 35,600...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

Thanks for your pertinent questions. Answers, as best I can: It is outside, but the external pipe runs are short, perhaps 6ft flow and 6ft return an...

2 years ago
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RE: What do we need to know before installing a heat pump?

I agree that is what the Engineering databook shows (page 45, 9050W to confirm we're on the same page) but I am not sure what the max/norm/min rows re...

2 years ago
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