Last seen: May 5, 2025
@derek-m The carel controller in my ASHP allows me to specify three pump modes: Normal, Demand, Continuous... Normal - pump shuts off when setpoint...
Heat pumps and thermal stores are bad news, really really bad news.... Who designed this system?
Indeed.... And I wasn't too happy that I couldn't see the product before buying it, hence why I went with Cool Energy. I saw them at Installer show an...
Quote attached…
I asked Acond for a quote back at the start of my ashp journey… I nearly fell off my chair when the email came in…
@elton the issue is purely energy costs…. When people say ‘my heat pump doesn’t work’ what they really mean is ‘it costs more than the gas boiler did’...
None of this would matter if electricity wasn’t 3 times the price of gas. Rebalance the energy prices and you can get away with sub optimal installs w...
Alec hit the nail on the head right there I think. Most heat pump controls are a bit pants, or a cryptic to use (that’s why GH is always championing t...
The secondary pump won’t be pwm controlled, I assume? Why do you have a buffer and secondary pump anyway?
That’s a daikin hybrid system which uses an intergas boiler as the gas fired bit. looks like it’s firing at 31 degrees flow temp, which is probably ...
25-27th June at the NEC.
@thebarn massively oversized for the heat demand then… Have you seen the heat loss calcs the quoting company have produced?
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