Last seen: Aug 4, 2025
@toodles Spot on, mostly from installers therefore end users, someone has to pay for it. However, that is only a very small part of the cost. I ran ...
@bontwoody That flow temperature is pretty close to 45 Deg C (43 deg C), it could be sensor drift that is causing the activation, it is clear that it ...
MCS and Heat Geek are not the same thing. MCS is a standard that any Heat Geek, or any other installer, has to abide by. It is not an installation sta...
@ecobaker They work reasonably well on open zone, just make sure you always have the minimum flow rate. Attached is a manual with the open zone prog...
@toodles The Heat Geek brand is just that, a commercial, moneymaking brand.
@editor It is a physical and practical impossibility to balance a buffer in all instances and with varying loads, flow rates, temperatures and compres...
@nicholab I am not sure I understand what you have said, are you saying that the contract they gave you said it would be expensive to run? That back...
@nicholab According to your oil usage, you are using about 12000 Kw house per year, according to the EPC (which will be woefully inaccurate) you will ...
@neilhighland Have a look at the Panasonic T cap, a little more expensive but a far superior unit. You get what you pay for.
Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, your system is designed for a high temperature heat source, back boiler, on-off old type gas or oil boiler or biom...
@crimson Unfortunately unless you change the installation, anything you do will have little effect on the performance of the system. Heating systems a...
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