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It does. I do not claim to be the world authority on PHE's but if you read the public explanations of how they work, full efficiency running a HP acro...
no of course end users shouldn't be doing this. Installers should. Installers should be MADE to put in systems that perform properly and held liable (...
ok no worries . in which case I concur with yourself and hughf, blending valve is the first place I'd check. you should be able to feel the temperatur...
I think the difference between testbed and realworld here vs others is that in say cars, you could never get the MPG advertised (although now there ar...
@swanny also. the pipe insulation in the loft is crap. look at the gaps. Because its in your loft it really matters. it will be at outside temperature...
@swanny ok if the 3rd pump is to boost your the water pressure to the shower then its nothing to do with the central heating, we can forget about it f...
as per mike-h, if you want to be able to temporarily and quickly "boost" your temperature the only easy way (without delving into modbus control) is t...
@swanny the different WL interlinks values are different timing options for the overruns. 3 was what was recommended to me in lots of material I read ...
@editor I voted perfect 🙂
Are you sure you've describe it the right way round? Your description says the cold tap runs hot then lukewarm? Did you mean the hot tap? If so then e...
@jamespa I think the question was from the point of view of "toodles has an LLH, no prospect to do anything different , what should the pump tuning b...
@swanny good progress. 1kw is a good start. the fact its showing 25% on that "inverter pump" number, means it would be trying to slow the pump down if...
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