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Firstly, a bit good news regarding COP - it’s not as bad as you might think! Mitsubishi reporting of electric consumption is known to be overdone – fo...
@rich I agree with your assessment that your pump is oversized, I have the same unit in a similarly-sized house with a design temp of 50° at -2.5 and ...
Definitely a better understanding of the heat demand of my home. Before installation I tried reducing the output temperature of the boiler to simulate...
@pkham I am not a Midea owner, but if I am reading your screenshot correctly you are running it to a fixed temp output of 41° not a variable output W...
If you refer to this document -- part D-9 explains the process of re-pairing your wireless controller and receiver.
@rod This pattern is very familiar to me as it just how my heat pump chooses to operate. Under WC it would cycle more frequently but using AA it is a...
That is a bold statement Gary, it might be true for your installation, but, for example, it isn't for mine which has been running with flow temps betw...
My system is not UFH so my direct knowledge is zilch, but I think Derek is probably on the right lines. On the first of the MelCloud screenshots you p...
Generally I would say you need to work out how to get your system heating the house as you want it, then work out how to do it more efficiently, then ...
I'm not sure you should worry too much. The inaccuracy of the unit's measurement of its consumption builds up, I know my unit thinks it has used 60 kW...
You're right, only the last of these is a defrost, the bigger drop in LWT is the sign of the heat extraction. I have only ever looked out of the windo...
Concisely put. But cycling is phenomenon that seems to have a number of causes, and this golden standard of continuous, even running seems to be held ...
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
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RE: Missing flow temperature in Heat Geek proposal
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