Last seen: Jun 27, 2025
So, you're looking to maximise efficiency eh.... Step 1 - remove all extra pumps. Step 2 - remove all unnecessary hydraulic separation. Step 3 - ensur...
@derek-m I’ve done all I can back when the OP posted up originally. If the menu doesn’t match the manual, not sure where we can go from here.
@myanthony blimey….. I was going to say I could call round. But I’m in south Dorset - about as far away as you can get. From what I can tell fro...
Whereabouts in the UK are you?
I think auto adaption is best suited to fast response emitters, like rads or fan coils. It is essentially load compensation.
Answer: yes, probably lied to. Reality: probably doesn’t matter much unless you were borderline on capacity. my made in china unit seems spot on. No...
@toodles don’t worry too much about what gas your system uses. What matters is are you warm, can you afford to heat your house with your system? Not...
Yeah, it’s all a bit ridiculous this obsession over 1kg of propane….
Ah, if some rooms are too cold then that needs to be fixed by either increasing emitter size, or improving insulation in that room.
I always assumed it was marginally more efficient, and hence it requires considerably smaller charge volumes, but I’m no refrigeration engineer. To ...
It’s a real shame that the physics of gas compression mean that they don’t have a wider modulation ratio.
R410a here, does a grand job… although it’s quite a charge at 1.6kgs for a 9kW unit….
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