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Joined: May 2, 2022
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RE: Slow to heat room

This is why homely is such a great concept. It’s much more than a thermostat, it’s an automatic weather compensation optimiser. It’s a total game chan...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Ecodan/heating changes for higher COP

Another reason for ‘manufacturers controls only’. For owners of machines with non-adaptive controllers, the homely smart thermostat (it shouldn’t real...

2 years ago
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RE: How to avoid the complications and dramas of being an ASHP pump ownwer

I couldn’t agree more… I see so many installations where the manufacturers controller is stuffed outside in the garage/plant room, or worse, in the lo...

2 years ago
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RE: Slow to heat room

The humble room stat, yet again showing how inappropriate it is for a modern heating system that uses compensating controls. It would be better for mo...

2 years ago
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RE: Cool Energy CEiVt9 ASHP - DIY install

This is the current plan. UFH in the extension, close coupled Ts on the return line giving the hydraulic separation for the ufh circuit. Manifold plum...

2 years ago
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RE: Cool Energy CEiVt9 ASHP - DIY install

It’s a work in progress Mars. We’ve decided to do one more heating season with our gas boiler and put in a new heating system next spring when we star...

2 years ago
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RE: Cool Energy CEiVt9 ASHP - DIY install
3 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Flowmeter and glycol

You don’t need glycol or a flow meter…. glycol is just a terrible solution to the ‘power cut in the middle of winter’ problem…. Caleffi anti freeze ...

3 years ago
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RE: Any Vaillant experts able to help with setup

Arotherm Plus is r290 so requires complicated siting of the outdoor unit because of the risk of gas leaks and pooling/explosion. A regular arotherm is...

3 years ago
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RE: Electricity price predictions

I'm actually not going to be in such a rush to move over from a smart prepayment meter as I was before the price cap increases - at least we're protec...

3 years ago
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RE: Advice needed on choice of BMS

@transparent umm, basically, yes. I’ll do a drawing. A few shunts in there and a common dc bus, and the ac side is a bit different. no fuses, no lig...

3 years ago
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RE: ASHP on a low income: a cautionary tale

For A2W, I'd always recommend DIY installers go for a monobloc unit. Couple of lengths of 28mm, mains power, job done. In fact, with the move to flamm...

3 years ago
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