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RE: My ASHP is not performing as well as I’d hoped: COP just over 2

Now people have said all the sensible long things, I have a question - can you tell how often it is coming on and off each hour, and is it possible to...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air source heat pump stopped generating hot water

Spirotech, the one on the right, is a fancy water filter, I think pretty much all systems have a spirotech or something similar. To get any particles...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Is this a bad installation and is there something wrong with my Samsung heat pump?

Our panels look a bit more like 10% and 80% setup, but have survived 70mph gusts over winter okay and seem to be rigid just now. The clamp on David's...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Is this a bad installation and is there something wrong with my Samsung heat pump?

That is ridiculous. So you have the hot water tank, a buffer tank, a red and a white tank and a big white one as well. For comparison, our installat...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Air source heat pump stopped generating hot water

That's a pain, sounds like you might have been paying through the nose to heat your hot water for a while using the immersion heater. To help with ...

11 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Wind turbines, planning applications and implementation

I too would like a small, 0.5 to 1Kw vertical axis wind turbine to go at the bottom of the garden and basically top up the battery we have in the hous...

11 months ago
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Wind Generation
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RE: PAS_63100_2024 - BSI guidance on BESS (battery energy storage systems) in dwellings

Well, that's our intallation unfit for purpose then...

12 months ago
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Energy Storage
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RE: Is this a bad installation and is there something wrong with my Samsung heat pump?

It has been cold and damp around here, yesterday was +5 and damp all day, although not actually raining. We are over near Biggar so similar weather t...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Smart meter installation – seamless or a potential nightmare?

Yes, a lot of the people who are anti smart meter will be anti heat pump, because their favourite columnist or conspiracy theorist, but I repeat mysel...

12 months ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: Is this a bad installation and is there something wrong with my Samsung heat pump?

Here are a couple of photos of our one, which I have not seen covered in ice this month despite there being quite a few cold days. They did core the w...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Is this a bad installation? Is there something wrong with my heat pump?

Good question. I've looked in the Installation manual but it doesn't say much about defrost settings, just that there is one. I will need to look th...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Is this a bad installation? Is there something wrong with my heat pump?

In my case it defrosts in a minute or two, I've not timed it, but when it pumps the warm water back through the ice melts and runs down the pump into ...

12 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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