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Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
My system has been running 24/7 on weather compensation from last September until today when I fitted a thermostat. I did think about just changing ...
@editor I was at the Exeter tool fair/electricians show a couple of weeks ago and MCS had a fancy booth there. I was tempted to go and ask them what e...
If they don’t fix it, I’d just do it yourself - the Samsung is a piece of piss to install. Buffer tank in the bin, TRVs in the bin, Samsung cont...
Have you decided what you’re going to do about this install, who you’re going to complain to?
Room stat/call for heat wires are polarity insensitive, it’s just a switch.
A valve in the heat pump causes the direction of the refrigerant to change. The water circuit carries on pumping as usual.
I’m in the DIY camp, completed the install last September and it has been running 24/7 since then. Slightly different choice of install (15m up the ...
@david999 On the subject of isolation after the battery, class T fused disconnect (two pole) is what is be using…. Not at all expensive.
Samsungs are so easy to install, you could fix this yourself if you wanted…. How many pumps do you have? (It will either be one or two, it shouldn’t...
Sunsynk not the best in my experience. Poor software, lacking in features…. very poor overload capability.
@heacol easily resolved with a jumper wire on the end of the flow sensor cable 🤣 When I was commissioning my Sprsun I could not get the air ...
@ecobaker ah damn…. Swap that out for a UPM GEO then….
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