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Here are some thoughts for consideration, they may depend upon the location of your heat pump and whether it also gets some solar gain. You should i...
This is precisely why it is not possible to predict Power Input or Power Output, with any degree of accuracy by merely using outside air temperature v...
Have you considered Octopus Tracker which today is 14.83p/kWh in the Yorkshire area. That is all day.
The idea that James proposed of using TRV's in the solar gain rooms should work, and is probably the easiest and simplest solution. An alternative w...
The major drawback with that philosophy, is there will then be the need for more electrical energy generation and transmission, which in turn will inc...
You are perfectly correct, there is a non-zero element which needs to be considered. It is due the the 'human infestation' along with their toys and g...
Good piece of work. As you discovered chasing cheaper tariffs does not always align with the weather conditions. Some of my previous ideas have bee...
What about the man who doesn't wear a watch?
I have worked on complex instrumentation systems for over 50 years, and the worst thing that any system designer can do is provide two individual moni...
I don't disagree with you that 12kW would appear to be too large, I would usually suggest that a heat pumps capacity should to be 1.25 to 1.5 times th...
Ian, I would suggest caution when encouraging people to go for smaller capacity heat pumps, since I feel most would be much happier having a heat pu...
I fully appreciate that an external power meter will probably be more accurate than any internal equipment. The point that I am making is that even ...
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