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@morgan Yes, "Prohibit" was the word for when switched/ timed off. So, apparently, my Melcloud is currently wrong for heating and possibly for DHW,...
@dgclimatecontrol I don't know, but they were not happy to proceed without knowing rather more about the settings required in the EHSC Hydrobox. I b...
@dgclimatecontrol It needs recovering because, as I explained at the beginning of the thread, the pipework installed by the original contractor was pr...
@ashp-bobba Thanks again and I do now see a way forward, but I have to think of a way of putting this to the contractor which doesn't give the impress...
@ashp-bobba Thanks for the updated comments. I certainly had the impression that the engineer was seeking something like flicking a dipswitch before p...
@ashp-bobba I am most grateful to you and I am so pleased that you were able to summarise it and also come up with a simple alternative. When the co...
@ashp-bobba Thanks for your input. I stress that this contractor covers all manner of heating and cooling matters and I have more confidence in him th...
@karl-r This is a local air conditioning installer, i.e. local to me in the Algarve, Portugal. The pipework will be a similar length to the existing i...
@jamespa Mitsubishi aircon is fairly common here in the Algarve although Daikin leads and LG probably second. I suspect that Mitsu are more popular in...
@jamespa The pipework was badly installed and even worse "insulated" by burying it. The rudimentary insulation has all but disappeared over the 3 year...
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