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@mookyfoo - two 16kW heat pumps is certainly plenty of redundancy in a house with a heat loss of around 13.5kW! If two are really necessary, one would...
@derek-m - I don't know the model of the PHE, only its's make (Secespol) which is on the foam insulating jacket, which can't be removed without damage...
1800 hours: bedroom 17.5 (vs 19) bathroom 20.0 (vs 22) kitchen 17.4 (vs 19). All have benefited from recent solar gain, especially bathroom and kitche...
@batalto - I'm currently on the standard Freedom weather com curve, 55@-2/37@15. Bumping up the top end will do even nastier things to my COPs and is ...
@batalto - my provisional conclusions are that the problem, or part of the problem, the PHE may also be partly to blame, is the nominal 14kW Midea hea...
@batalto - yes, in effect, I had my full room by room heat loss calcs from when I first designed installed the CH in the 1980s, and I also had the hea...
@kev-m - there are indeed many factors at work. I suspected a capacity problem at lower ambients because if you put the correct Midea capacity data (o...
@saz - the Heat Loss Calculator worksheet isn't to bad, but it is complex, with a lot of detail needing to be entered, and it only needs one small typ...
I have just posted a comment on my previous thread, to the effect that my heating system is not fit for purpose. But I don't blame my installer, who a...
At last a cold spell to test the heating and see whether it can cope - it can't. The nominally 14kW Midea ASHP is incapable of warming the house to de...
I have said it before and will say it again - it is very clear MCS is not fit for purpose. I was first alerted to this by the fact that over half (60%...
@majordennisbloodnok - thanks, that is all very helpful. The laptop normally runs Windows, but I might be able to run Linux from a USB stick, and star...
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