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Last seen: Jan 14, 2025
@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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By bobflux , 7 hours ago
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RE: How quickly would you want/expect heat recovery to take from setback?
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RE: Renewables & Heat Pumps in the News
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RE: Octopus Cosy 12 Heat Pump Regret: Incredibly Loud, Poor Heating & Constant Hum - Help!
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RE: How should the Boiler Upgrade Scheme be reformed?
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RE: Heat Geek installations: share your experiences
one thing i learnt from reading people’s comments and e...
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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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