Last seen: Sep 2, 2025
@ivanopinion Good perspective! Apologies if this is somewhere else on the forum but which brand did you go for? I'm guessing Vaillant or Viessmann sin...
@mikeh Interesting comment about radiator balancing. When would that take place?
@project_electrify I believe that the Daikin 9 kW is a repackaged 16 kW unit. That means it will struggle to modulate low enough, leading to cycling a...
@mikeh Don't sign off until everything is done correctly!
@morgan How much solar PV capacity do you have installed? I would think that with good control + your solar PV and batteries, you would be better of...
@editor Absolutely. We saw the cylinders and plumbing, talked about controls. Everything one needs to know about heat pumps.
Assuming you'll be paid for your export at some point, why can't you run the ASHP for HW while solar PV is generating? You get hot water for free, and...
@alec-morrow A topic close to my heart, thanks for posting about this. "Engineering-led policymakers in other countries effectively removed on/off c...
MelCloud is down for us. Anyone else?And anyone who knows what the reason could be?
Would recommend asking another opinion. The 11 kW heat loss seems high indeed if 2 others came up almost half of that.I'm also surprised Aira would in...
Totally makes sense @bontwoody and @toodles! Comfort is #1. Location and person dependent.With that in mind, you'll always have some cycling during mi...
@bontwoody I've previously heard a rule of thumb to limit to 3-4 start/stops per hour. Maybe a stupid question: Do you need the heating today? How war...
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Have you got more than one pump or only one? If more t...
By JamesPa , 6 minutes ago
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RE: Solar Power Output – Let’s Compare Generation Figures
@andris a great year - very happy with our system
By Profzarkov , 1 hour ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan 11kw Defrosting Issue.
A bit of a follow up on the progress of the Ecodan pump...
By ThunderMink , 1 hour ago
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RE: A Customer's Lessons Learnt from a Heat Pump Installation in a Large House
After our rather lengthy meander off piste, I thought I...
By GrahamF , 2 hours ago
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RE: Midea ASHP – how to set weather compensation
@pash44pump - to collect the IAT/OAT data, can I sugges...
By cathodeRay , 4 hours ago
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RE: Ecodan software update. Real or scam?
@vinz86 Contact Mitsubishi and an engineer attends and ...
By ASHP-BOBBA , 14 hours ago
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My Samsung Gen6 (probably same controller as yours) onl...
By Old_Scientist , 24 hours ago
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@drei When I was in local government we were of cours...
By JamesPa , 1 day ago
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RE: Heat Pump SCOPs – The Truth Might Not Be What You Think
Sufficient system volume is also essential for ensuring...
By Old_Scientist , 1 day ago
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RE: Boiling Mad: Exposing Radiatorgate
@rob-nezard you can see more of Drei's rad dramas here ...
By Mars , 1 day ago
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RE: Flexi-Orb Heat Pump Scheme: A Game-Changer for the UK's Heat Pump Industry
As someone who has suffered from a Heat Pump installati...
By DREI , 2 days ago
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RE: New Vaillant aroTherm Plus in black - When will it come to the UK?
Hope they know what they're doing regarding paint types...
By PatrickVito , 2 days ago
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RE: What crazy nonsense are inverter limits and why are they imposed?
I’ve also got a dual fuel Rangemaster. We originally ha...
By Majordennisbloodnok , 2 days ago
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RE: Octopus tariffs - a quick comparison
@tim441 I’d agree wholeheartedly with that, with 2 x Po...
By Toodles , 2 days ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions
@bontwoody Maybe one for @editor to consider whether a ...
By ChandyKris , 2 days ago
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RE: is a home battery without an EV worth it?
You would think, but when I had my Powerwall 3 installe...
By Old_Scientist , 2 days ago
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@mars That response surely deserves a nomination for Tu...
By JamesPa , 3 days ago
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Specifying batteries, pv solar etc using ChatGPT
I thought I'd try to use ChatGPT to specify my requirem...
By Tim441 , 3 days ago
