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Last seen: Apr 14, 2025
I am looking at the MCS handover checklist and thinking hang on, we don't have all of that. We have the invoice, MCS certificate, not necessarily in...
@olly That makes sense for the water tank. When our smart meter gets sorted out so it actually works (no signal) it would definitely be worth using a...
I think I shall leave that alone for now until I understand if it affects any warranty or suchlike. Probably the easiest long term option.
@mike-h Exactly, that's the bind we are in just now.
Oh good, the installation isn't quite as bad as I thought it might be, expansion tanks are less serious than buffer ones. The thermostat didn't seem...
Here are photos of the hot water tank, the two tanks above it and the label of the tank itself. The system does seem fairly straightforwards, but I a...
@iancalderbank That isn't quite the answer I was expecting. I will be starting a thread on my system once I know what I want to say in it, I would be...
@minted_lamb That sounds a more useful controller than a dumb Honeywell one, and hysteresis is important. By Samsung controller what do you mean, the...
This sounds like what I noticed in our heat pump a few weeks ago. The Honeywell room thermostat was set to have a 'cycle rate' of 5 times per hour. ...
Ah, but who would set the setback? The thing reads like something a marketing manager would write, not an engineer.
I have independently found that the thermostat is to blame for cycling our 12 Kw Samsung HP 4 or 5 times an hour, and so turned the permitted cycle nu...
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