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No unit should be using it's immersion element at this ambient temperature. It is only permitted to come on after the design duty point, which should ...
@marzipan71 You may befit from replacing the valve, it will depend on the current flow rate and system design. If you have a buffer tank, it will prob...
The ground loop pump must run when the heating is on, it may be a connection problem or the board has failed. You can as a temporary measure try conne...
It is quite possible to install a high temperature heat pump, and you can run it at high temperatures if you want to double your heating bill. However...
@derek-m Correct but the best way to control flow is automatically with equipment that can do it for you. If your system does not have Delta T contro...
@soniks Firstly, the engineers at Grant need to buy a new calculator or go back to school. 50 L/min will transmit 28Kw. You only need to transmit abou...
@soniks As I said, 28 mm will be fine, a 28 mm pipe has an internal diameter of 26.2 mm, the Grant 17 Kw will produce about 14 Kw at -2 at 50 odd degr...
@soniks change 28 mm primaries--- wrong, I have 30Kw heat pumps on 28 mm primaries very successfully Buffer tank--- Wrong in any circumstance unless...
@kev-m I understand where you are coming from, but it is wishful thinking. The industry did try to do exactly what you are asking and came up with the...
@derek-m Oh I wish. Unfortunately, we follow behind a myriad of idiots that blow your assumptions out the water.
@kev-m Unfortunately you are Oh- So-Wrong. If the builders had followed the building regulations over the last 30 years, you may be right, but they ha...
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