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@bontwoody yes thats one of the ones I read when making my decisions.
@wintergreen you don't say how big your cylinder is, but I have 4 people, 4 showers plus lots of pan washing up (we cook a lot), 300L cylinder, we cyc...
for the same heat power, if flowrate is high, DT is low, and vice versa, they multiply to make the heat power. you have an 8kw hp and its mild : I'm g...
@bontwoody I went with an inline volumiser. All you say is correct, it cannot detract anything from efficiency, whereas a buffer or LLH always does - ...
@cougarsmith wow. This takes the biscuit for stupid installer errors. The recommended pipe sizes for heat pump to cylinder connections from mitsubishi...
@joti yep you can't over insulate. my cylinder and all the complex pipework are inside the main body of the house, but some of my primary pipework has...
@transparent I don't understand how these kind of loft installs can ever pass muster from an insulation point of view. its basically outside! @nobur...
agree. at this time of year when there will not be enough PV surplus to properly heat the cylinder, for exactly this reason, I avoid having the PV sur...
@joti you say you are "cooking" with an LWT of 50, in fact in your previous point you mentioned "cooking" with an LWT of 40. So just to give you a sma...
very likely what made it better was that you turned on that extra radiator. it is amazing to see the improvement in stability that comes from adding e...
@mike-h you might have already been down this road but never hurts to ask the obvious: have you checked the FSV settings for the timers for DHW vs C...
ah. I wondered if those digits were your postcode! I'm MK17, just round the corner! If you want to PM me , I'll give you my battery installer detail...
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