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@derek-m The cheapest and best heat energy storage is a thick concrete slab with a well designed low temperature under floor heating system
@benseb the Delta T should be between 5 and 10 Deg C. Try reduce the speed on one of the circulating pumps. This will increase the Delta T and further...
Mars, I think you are very optimistic and have significantly overstated the number of well designed systems. From the amount of systems that we sort o...
@transparent You seam to have a system with a lot of potential. With a few alterations, it will improve conciderably and reduce your running costs. Yo...
Difficult to derimine your problem but with the COP figgures you have mentioned, you have some serious problems, and unfortunatly you seam to have a v...
@derek-m A thermostat is a device that controlls atemperature, it cancachieve this in many different forms. On-Off is the most basic form and concique...
@derek-m It looks like a standard thermostat and connects to a standard under floor actuator head. Instead of either open or close, as with a standard...
@derek-m I like to keeep things simple and use a Pulse width modulation thermostat with the heat pumps WC on under floor and the heat pumps load/WC o...
@transparent What heat source do you have? Setting a constant temperature on under floor will do a number of things, Create a very high swing in t...
@alec-morrow We have fantastic results with under floor with any surface when designed and installed correctly, we find weather comprnsation only work...
@alec-morrow You would be correct if the system was designed and installed as in the pictures above, that is a high temperature system, not suitable f...
@robl The kensay units are very simple and I do not believe have an option for cooling, a third party controller will be necessary, which is usually n...
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