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Hi Chris, welcome to the forum. It is not quite as you state. If, as you have said, you require 12000kWh of energy for heating and DHW, what you are ...
@mjr I am not certain how knowledgeable your are concerning PID Controllers, so please forgive me if I am 'teaching my Granny to suck eggs'. To be...
@squeakysim I try to be objective, when I look at any new idea. If the Warmstone unit was more competitively priced then I may have been more favour...
@kev-m Hi Kev, Thanks for the useful information, which only goes to prove that theory doesn't always work in practice.
@mjr I cannot state for definite, but as a Control Systems Engineer I would expect both the LWT and the RWT will be used in the control of the speed...
@squeakysim I don't wish to burst your bubble, but I looked at the Warnstone units some time ago and came to the conclusion that they are too expens...
@squeakysim Like a gas boiler, or an oil fired boiler, a heat pump produces heat energy, which in the UK is normally transported to the heat emitter...
Heating one's home is a balancing act, and it is even more so with an ASHP. Consider the following example. If the heat loss calculation predicts ...
As far as I am aware, the temperatures quoted are the agreed 'standard' for properties in the UK. They are the ones used when carrying out the heat lo...
@cathoderay You are probably correct about running the water pump in PP AA mode, though it depends on how the pump actually performs. A little inf...
@matt_l The fact that the indoor temperature is slightly higher than that desired would indicate that your home is quite well insulated, and your WC...
@benseb Without knowing the full details of your system, including the heat loss calculations, it is difficult to provide advice. Do you have any ...
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