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@cathoderay Sorry, I should have clarified, it is the high ambient end of the curve, so changing the present 35C to 40C. It will indeed cause cyclin...
Please explain your motivations, I would love to hear.
You are indeed correct, the are no easy answers, but do you actually trust our present crop of politicians to formulate suitable long term strategies?...
@cathoderay It is not that heat pumps are badly designed, in fact it is probably the opposite, it is that heat pumps are not designed to be operated...
I welcome the fact that you are trying to reduce your energy consumption, and I would encourage everyone else to try to do the same. Whilst I hope tha...
I am a firm believer in trying to save both energy and money at the same time, but human nature means that money often takes precedence over energy ef...
Please forgive me if I upset anyone, but I am getting a strong feeling of 'Sod the planet, so long as we can do so cheaply'. 🙄
@jamespa CR was advised to consider removing the PHE quite some time ago. I think that Batalto followed the advice and achieved quite considerable i...
Your charts are quite interesting and are a good example of what appears to be happening within a heat pump system. The 3rd was quite a sunny day, and...
@cathoderay I think that we went through many of these aspects quite some time ago, but it does no harm to have a recap. Your calculations based a...
@cathoderay On the first graph, how did you arrive at the weekly energy output for the oil fired system? Did you record the oil consumption each wee...
The problem with heat pumps is that they are not supplied from a single energy source, and this can be affected quite considerably by changes in outsi...
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