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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

It has been said that Latin is the last refuge of the linguistic scoundrel, but putting that aside, how about a recaleferator? If they got away with g...

7 months ago
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Well & Truly Off The Grid
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

Maybe combine our two ideas, and come up with Energy Teleporter? That sounds like the sort of thing any right thinking person would want for their hom...

7 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

But its presence is visible, as an inflated tyre! And it can be felt (vert visceral), as you operate the pump. Another thought: how about heat telep...

7 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

There is, or at least there used to be until all the text books got rewritten, something called abstract conceptual thought. It's basically an ability...

7 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

@toodles - very good! How about Heaty McHeatFace? More mundanely, having thought about it, and yes I know it is not very creative, I do think 'heat ...

8 months ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Advanced Auto Adaptation

They are, and thank you for the detail of what you do. One of the many useful functions of this forum is that it provides a repository of different wa...

8 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

So true, and a proliferation of white van chasing lawyers is a sure indicator of a system that has failed.

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

Yes minister! That is precisely why we have people like Sir Humphrey latterly KCMG (Kindly call me God) now GCMG (God calls me God) running the show!

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Mitsubishi Advanced Auto Adaptation

@sliderule - thanks. I suspect even heat pump enthusiasts would welcome anything that reduces the tedium of tweaking and fine tuning weather compensat...

8 months ago
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

Here for completeness sake is the chart:

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Mitsubishi Advanced Auto Adaptation

In an attempt to clarify this - isn't AAA (Advanced Auto Adaption) an addition to more basic weather compensation. It still varies the flow rate based...

8 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation

This is true, but what weather compensation does when set up correctly, and even better when tweaked by Homely or whatever, is match the flow temp to ...

8 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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