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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

Another general observation while I am at it: you need to think of a heat pump as a Steady Eddy that runs low and slow. It is a tortoise, not a hare. ...

3 years ago
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

"Installing larger rads..." Absolutely, that is why I have tried to highlight the pitfalls. There are many constraints. In my house (an old small cott...

3 years ago
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

The rad/room delta t will be bigger with a higher flow temp ASHP, maybe 30 (rads 50, rooms 20) but almost certainly not as big as with a normal fossil...

3 years ago
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RE: Say hello and introduce yourself

No doubt that was OK for you, but a comment like this needs an added caveat, that in many cases moving from a fossil fuel based system with rads sized...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

That is my understanding too, because of safety concerns, eg what if you need an electrically powered medical device of some sort? Turning off the pow...

3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

At the risk of sounding like a tin foil hat conspiracy theorist, I have 100% resisted having a smart meter installed, despite heroic attempts by my en...

3 years ago
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RE: Massive Electricity Cost

Interim report back: not much to report. I have now got all the uptairs radiators to within a degree of each other, all rooms same temp except bathroo...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

This is one of the many hurdles, too much choice, making it very difficult to decide which one to go with. Homely, Home Assistant, Domoticz, emonCMS, ...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

Hugh, Midea go even further, they publish the modbus register in the Operation Manual that comes with the wired controller. But what they don't do is ...

3 years ago
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RE: Heat Pump Truth or Myth#1 - Keeping it running 24/7 uses less energy

Despite what I said earlier, there is still one thing that bothers me. Consider boiling and then simmering a saucepan of water: to get the water to bo...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

@oswiu - I've got a lot to learn. I come from the Morris Minor era of electrical engineering, where the most complex thing I had to do was spray WD40 ...

3 years ago
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RE: Accessing and analysing data from your heat pump

@oswiu - interesting, all gist to the mill. Here are some screen grabs of some things I have come across. From a Midea M-Thermal 'consumer' brochure...

3 years ago
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