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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

If you know when it will go into DHW heating mode (because it is on a timer?) then it won't take much to get useful readings, say flow rate, LWT/RWT (...

9 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

There is also enough info there to calculate calculate power output, which is LWT/RWT delta t x flow rate/3.6 x circulating fluid specific heat (the d...

9 months ago
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

If you get this in time, can you do some more screen grabs as the water continues to heat. It would be particularly useful to see what the heat pump c...

9 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

I think that is a very good idea. Point out gently that doing these tasks will make life easier for everyone/what if the heat pump does destroy itself...

9 months ago
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

@burtis - another, more worrying point occurred to me. I think at some point you may have said you asked your installers not to add antifreeze, becaus...

9 months ago
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RE: The good, the bad and the not that great – my heat pump installation

That's interesting. I don't think I've ever seen a flow rate that low. My problem is the flow rate tends to be fixed at around 1.4m^3/h, and that cons...

9 months ago
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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...

9 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...

9 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...

9 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...

9 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 ...

9 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...

9 months ago
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