Last seen: Aug 28, 2025
@Morgan, most services I've heard of are around £250, but cost of living may have driven this up. To be honest, even £250 is a significant amount of...
@morgan, yikes, that’s expensive.
Not MQTT as far I’m aware but it is Thread enabled and will run on Matter when it’s readily available allowing it to communicate with non-iOS devices,...
The installers were helpful and finally moved the filter inside for easier access, but the flow issues persisted which prompted them to add more distr...
All ASHPs require a minimum flow rate to protect the heat pump unit. I suspect yours has a threshold too, but you haven’t been affected by that yet as...
@oswiul that’s very good. I may have to steal that as a headline for my next post that I’m working in.
Sadly, the MCS are a toothless organization that I had a lot of faith in when we started RHH and have had regular contact with them. I am fortunate to...
On the subject of COP, I have to disagree because it should matter greatly. Each and every MCS-accredited heat pump in the UK has a published COP for ...
@grahamh, and therein lies the biggest issue for me with the ASHP industry. Running costs don't correlate with the heat they produce (and the manufact...
Our lifetime COP is 2.7 and the published COP of our 18kW Global Energy Systems heat pump is supposed to be 3.46 at 45C flow temperature.
Here’s some food for thought. How many distribution pumps do you have connected to your heat pump system at the moment and do you know how much pow...
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