Last seen: Sep 19, 2024
@curlykatie Do you have any form of pressure reducing valve on the cold water supply to your hot water cylinder? If you have mixer taps on your ba...
Is it a GSHP by any chance?
Has your ASHP been correctly commissioned and optimised, since 5kW seems rather excessive. What are the operating parameters and operating mode? Do yo...
I often wonder where people are being trained these days, assuming that they are being trained at all. I can't say for certain, since I don't know e...
Whether you fully heat unused rooms is a personal choice. ASHP's are more efficient when operating at the lowest LWT, but to get the maximum amount ...
@curlykatie Hi Curly, Just out of interest, how is your system performing now?
@robl Other than what you refer to as DeltaT, is more likely LWT, this is an excellent set of results, and proves what can be achieved with a good l...
Just a further example of the 'tail wagging the dog', when it could have been quite feasible to supplement your heat demand with a simple fan heater ...
The text is much too small to read, but I assume that when you state that the 'peak heat loss 13kW', this mean with indoor temperatures of 21C and an ...
@cathoderay I am not familiar with Python, but I do have experience with data storage and transmission. To store a number, be it an integer or float...
ASHP's are not as efficient as GSHP's, because their primary energy supply, from the air rather than the ground, keeps changing, and can go well below...
@ecodannewcastle Try changing the warm end of the WC curve to LWT of 25C at outside temperature of 20C. What size is your Ecodan? What is the heat...
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RE: Heat Pump Damage on install - useable or dealbreaker?
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Testing new controls/monitoring for Midea Clone ASHP
Hi all, I thought it might be of interest to others i...
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RE: Who’s Caved and Switched the Heating On Already?
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Ok. Two schools of thought. The first is to run the ...
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RE: Is Your Broadband Router the Weak Link in Your High-Tech Home?
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Selling 5 year old ASHP & Gas Combi Boiler - £590
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
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By Tasos , 10 hours 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 , 11 hours ago
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@damon thanks. I will do as you suggest. Hopefully I wi...
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RE: Is a Valliant Inline 6kW heater a BUS buster?
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RE: Heat Pump Servicing & Maintenance – Good Value or Rip-Off?
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RE: Buffers, hot water and cooling
@dgclimatecontrol thanks, that's helpful.
By JamesPa , 3 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...
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RE: Replacing Worcester oil boiler with an ASHP
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
A week later, I'm finally picking up this comment... ...
By Transparent , 3 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
