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I have a 16kw samsung. yesterday with outside temps stuck around zero all day, I used 45kwh of electricity, for 120kwh of heat (including quite a lot ...
@toodles charge rate one of the best bits about powerwall, part of why I went for it over others. 5kw PER powerwall. I have 3 so can (and do) pull 15k...
@paulrlondon this sounds to me very much like a flow balancing issue, as the others are suggesting. Its not an "ASHP can't deliver enough heat" issue ...
I hope that's not what they're recommending! Particulates etc...
as a general rule, in a moderate to well insulated house, keep variation as little as possible. But, other factors are always in play: - do you wan...
so : I am technically an end user (I am not MCS, I don't get paid to install heat pumps, I do something else entirely for a living). But, I installed ...
@toodles thats an interesting one. octopus might be likely to say, if you're still driving a fossil car, tough, you can't have this tariff. But as yo...
@marzipan71 I thought homely was intended to be self-installable , did they say why they wouldn't let you have one? all their comms is over internet, ...
so its up to you, but because winter is going to start imminently , you could consider: - getting a 3rd party to fix this. The people who already i...
@cougarsmith so its obviously a bit hard to get scale, but using your finger as a guideline, that looks like 28mm coming through the wall (a good sign...
so the most likely explanation is that there is another circulating pump in your system, and you also have a buffer tank or low loss header (LLH) in y...
@bob77 2 more thoughts. It is possible with some heat pumps to wire a PWM output to the circulating pump. This allows the heat pump to tell the circul...
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RE: How quickly would you want/expect heat recovery to take from setback?
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
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RE: Heat Geek installations: share your experiences
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RE: Cooling/heating with one unit
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RE: Do I add Air Con or MVHR to existing A2W ASHP?
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RE: Heat pump branding. Clever, contemporary… or a bit too much?
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Bufferless design & control of Chinese air to water monoblock hybrid heat pump in Alberta, Canada
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The installer visited yesterday and suggested the noise...
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RE: HeatGeek vs Octopus surveys: puzzling disparity - any ideas why?
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RE: Heat Geek Zero Disrupt: Are We Sleepwalking Into Another Race to the Bottom?
Thats true only if you do the wrong experiment. Done c...
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