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@jamespa I think you are right about a hotel type hot water feed. Hot water seems to return, see the secondary return shown in this section of dia...
@paullacey From the diagrams I assess you have 2 heat pumps plumbed in "tandem" but controlled in "cascade". What the second heat pump can do is the s...
@bontwoody "but after a minute the 3 way valved closed." I might be wrong but could it be a 3 port, 2 way valve with mid-position? Oper...
@grahamf To save wear and tear on the pump why could you not run weather comparison during the winter months only, and fixed temp. for the other month...
@jamespa Surely the problem will be grid undersupply i.e when the wind fails to blow just when you need it to! This is the problem that needs to ...
@jamespa or it might be related to the number of nuclear power stations closed over that time frame? Since 2008, five UK nuclear power stations have...
@jamespa had the closure of coal powered electricity generation had a part to play in general increase? Rapid Decline:Coal's share of the UK's elec...
@toodles, touché chez. /\
A question for Inspector Watson?
@guydeb I take it you've not explored the option of using a single phase to 3 phase converter to run a 18kW 3-phase heat pump. Instead of £44k on a gr...
@ecobaker I'm still thinking that something is triggering the valve to close. In cooling mode on the rad, what are you setting as the rad target tem...
I see that these fan coil radiators either come with a two-way or three-way control valve built into them. What does the valve do? Well from a quick ...
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