Last seen: Sep 6, 2025
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...
@editor - I may have hinted at what my academic response might have been, but I am not getting bogged down in dissecting market dynamics in academic d...
I'm sorry, but I have to reiterate you cannot draw any conclusions about overall satisfaction from these results. If I were to put on my academic hat,...
@jamespa - I know no offence was intended, and none is taken. Rather, it is a good thing to have more information and methods, people can then choose ...
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