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@toodles After years of not wanting a smart meter(I live in a rental), I moved this month to Octopus tracker to see how it goes for a year to see if i...
I think your question stems from the semantics used in some articles where they use interchangeable the action of the meter constantly measuring the v...
@drew-pa Thanks, I was actually referring about the actual compressor, something like these old photos.
@drew-pa can you take a photo of the compressor's label? I know it's not easy. Thanks
Your HP should be able to provide hot water in between heating the house, a HP heated house should have a back-up electric water heater anyway.
@amanda1 this will help you visualize the refrigerant flow in the Heat pump and the water flow.
It is indeed very unfortunate for you to look on their website and be misled by someone's mistake on that page. This function(freeze protection), un...
@amanda1 please, enjoy the lecture(use the search function)
@reggie1978 I have a wild guess that's because the controller might be the one than doesn't deal well with two at the same time. Your only solution ...
@amanda1 my, oh my Welcome to the forum A 6kW Ecodan doing 7+kW at -8C with a few defrosts If for whatever the reason(too much boiler flue s...
@iancalderbank 99% it's in the back, if it's too close to the evaporator it can trigger the system to have a lower evaporating temp, or to put out a h...
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