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Last seen: Dec 5, 2024
No such luck yet - installers are saying their quoted 3.12 combined SCOP and the MCS minimum of 2.8 will be achieved as its winter so a poor COP of 1....
@mike-h It has been a few days since we’ve changed to -5/45 on the water law settings and COP has only gotten worse down to 1.8. It has been about ...
@mike-h so 2091/2092 were set to 'Use(Signal only ON/OFF)' and FSV 2093 was also set to 'Room Temp. only ON/OFF - you’re right they set us up with a t...
@mike-h thanks so much for taking the time to go through this. I’ll work on making some adjustments. Can I ask what your heat pump sounds like? It’...
Thanks - some more up to date figures from today after running quite stable (as far as I know). The usage looks accurate compared to our electric mete...
@jamespa @mike-h thanks both for the replies, useful to know how to actually drop the temps. We are really happy with how it’s actually keeping us war...
Any advice on if I should adjust the weather compensation temperatures further yet and if so the best way to do this? Do you lower both ends or just s...
@editor thank you so much for this and please thank the installer for me - I’ll raise this with our installer and hopefully we can get somewhere. Hope...
@bontwoody sorry wrong way round -3/48 and 15/38 - I’ll try bring up the 15 C setting and keep an eye out for cycling. I’ll give it a read - thanks...
@bontwoody thanks so much for taking the time to do that. Our temps are fairly similar, the day with a COP above 3 we actually set the flow temps to a...
@bontwoody hi thank you for your reply! I’ve attached our consumption/generation. It’s not been in very long - the first night it used a lot before we...
@editor thank you I appreciate your reply. So it doesn’t sound like the DHW set up alone would be the cause of the low COP? I’ve attached some photo...
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