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Hi Benseb, Just as a car engine has a minimum speed, so does a heat pump. What is probably happening is that your thermostat, if you have one instal...
@iancalderbank As I stated previously I remember reading that at least one of the controllers allowed the required DT to be set greater than 5. Unfo...
Hi Mars, It is my understanding that WC sets the WFT dependent upon the programmed curve and the outside temperature. You may therefore get variatio...
Heat pumps do not work particularly well with thermostat control, which is on-off. Most if not all of the modern heat pumps incorporate weather compen...
Hi Brooster, Welcome to the forum. Batalto is perfectly correct that a thermostat is not the ideal method of controlling an ASHP. The Mitsubishi C...
I would have thought that the opposite would actually occur. Consider the following. A heat pump is running happily with a Water Flow Temperature (W...
@iancalderbank There are some heat pump controllers which allow the required DT to be set to a particular value, within a specified range. Have a lo...
@editor Probably try 1 or 1.2 first and see how your system performs.
If wholesale gas price, as the graph shows, is 236.28p/Therm, this equates to 8.062p/kWh. A Combined Cycle Gas Turbine (CCGT) Power Station is approxi...
@julianc Try turning up your Nest to remove it from control. During Spring and Autumn you will still probably get some cycling even on weather con...
@jeff I think that Transparent pointed out in previous posts, that in his particular area, many of the grid upgrades would not be necessary if there...
@prjohn I worked in the Electricity Supply Industry when it was privatised. It wasn't long after privatisation before the 'bean-counters' started ...
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