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I suppose that this is the World in which we live. I hope that most people with an iota of common sense would appreciate that we should all do our b...
@davidalgarve As Bontwoody has pointed out, the most efficient way to produce hot water is by means of your heat pump. This may also be the most cos...
Hi David. You could have a power diverter installed along with your PV system. The diverter monitors the current flow at your electricity supply,...
The process is slightly different at the heat pump end. The LWT is set by the controller, either a fixed value or one using WC. If the heat pump is ...
I installed a small A2A unit at our home some time ago. It serves two purposes, whenever sufficient solar PV generation is available it provides total...
@chandykris I believe that your home heating system should be capable of supplying the needs of the whole home, independent of the actual number of ...
@rhh2348 Yes, reducing the flow rate should cause the DT to increase. What actually happens in practice is that say the overall flow rate is 10 lpm,...
@rhh2348 A vortex flowmeter is actually measuring the velocity of the liquid passing through it, which coupled with the actual area through which th...
Achieving an accurate flow measurement is probably the more difficult of the four main parameters. As you state the Sika data shows the VVX20 standa...
I believe that the FTC controller can only vary the water pump speed if the actual water pump is capable of having its speed varied. An easy way to ch...
The only time that you may wish to have a TRV in the living area is in a room or rooms that suffer from high solar gain. While in an open system, the ...
@majordennisbloodnok You do realise that by having more doors, it means that there are more doors that your wife can slam in your face. 😋
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
@cathoderay and others. Latest update Heat Loss Surve...
By pash44pump , 13 minutes ago
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RE: Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
The weather being what it is, gales then showers round ...
By cathodeRay , 24 minutes ago
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Ya can’t win! It is S*d’s Law!
I have been receiving invitations from Octopus Energy t...
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
We've been running our Ecodan system, installed in June...
By Sheriff Fatman , 3 hours ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@julianc Expressed as a flow diagram, I suspect one wou...
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RE: Big Changes Coming to Our Heat Pump System
@jamespa The dormitories at my boarding school (in Exet...
By Toodles , 6 hours ago
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
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@drei Willing as I am to help, I don't think I'm yet ...
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
I hear you on the locality issue @transparent, and I ag...
By Scalextrix , 24 hours ago
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
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By Paul G , 1 day ago
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RE: Help me keep the faith with my air source heat pump installation
Er true, it should have read l/hr!
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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@damon thanks. I will do as you suggest. Hopefully I wi...
By bontwoody , 2 days ago
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
Much of that is true in principle, but its not likely t...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
@dgclimatecontrol I attach the responses from 2 potenti...
By pash44pump , 3 days ago
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling
@dgclimatecontrol thanks, that's helpful.
By JamesPa , 4 days ago
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RE: Failing heat pump system - seeking thoughts on a rebuild
I realise im overdue an update on my situation. first...
By Cleardene-ashp , 4 days ago
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RE: Replacing Worcester oil boiler with an ASHP
@toodles thanks. I was told by the engineer that this h...
By JulianC , 4 days ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
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By Transparent , 4 days ago
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RE: COP is not the only measure of efficiency
We keep all our TRVs fully open using the whole house a...
By Old_Scientist , 4 days ago