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I am still waiting for a definitive answer on this from Freedom, though they have said the flow rate should vary, which does seem at odds with what we...
@jaynieq - we have similar properties (old sandstone cottages), though I am in the South so maybe a bit milder. I take it the Power W 11465 is your...
@bontwoody - good point, I was only talking about air to water heat pumps.
I agree, and it is why we need to look so closely at actual behaviour. I have just upped each end of the WCC by one degree, it is now 57 at -4, 35 ...
@transparent - certainly, here are my replies: A: at the moment it is 50:50 between 1 and 3, with 2 not really part of the problem (because the WCC ...
@jamespa - I agree, it is a useful plot. Sometimes nature does oblige, and provide a convenient operating range which we can observe. I do however wis...
I have been looking a bit more closely at what actually happens when my heat pump gets itself into can't quite cope mode, and the IAT falls, ie when t...
This is a common problem that gets nowhere near enough attention. The problem is two linked requirements: (1) to get a grant, you have to have an MCS ...
Here is my heat pump's behaviour (Midea 14kW running in weather compensation mode) over the last week, including cold outdoor air temperature periods ...
We'll do what we can, but first we need more information. Rough location and type of property. Your property's heat loss. It's a figure in kW that...
I see other have posted while I was putting my last post together. Not wishing to over-prolong this, I do however want to add three further comments a...
I didn't say that, but I did imply they could be. What I did was give a hypothetical example of how a poll could mislead, and then said "In that examp...
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