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RE: Do you know the lifespan of your heat pump?

The figure I've seen claimed is usually 20 years.

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

An interesting experiment on LLHs.

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Octopus Cosy 6 launched

@HughF I agree that Octopus are probably just aiming to achieve parity with gas running costs, though I think to do this they are going to need SCOPs ...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Confusion over Octopus Tariffs

You may well find that Agile Import is cheaper than Cosy. There are various apps (such as Octopus Compare) which will download your half hourly usage ...

2 years ago
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Electricity, Tariffs, Monitoring & Providers
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RE: How Government Grants May Be Inflating Heat Pump Installation Prices and What Could Happen If They’re Scrapped

I can certainly believe that some installers are padding their quotes a bit, knowing that the £7.5k BUS will still result in a net cost that enough cu...

2 years ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Training, Planning & Organisations
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RE: Octopus Cosy 6 launched

The Cosy 6 now has MCS certification, so you can see the SCOP figures, which seem pretty poor. Certification number HP0255/03. Interestingly, the SC...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Lambda Eureka Air heat pumps

I find the MCS database very difficult to understand.

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Lambda Eureka Air heat pumps

The maximum Lambda sound power seems to be 56dB, judging by the tech specs: Which is better than, say, Daikin, but not better than some on the UK mar...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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Lambda Eureka Air heat pumps
2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: SCOP and seasonal variations

You might find some useful information on Michael de Podesta's blog. For instance, this post shows the distribution of levels of heat demand over an a...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

Yes, it is one of those two who first alerted me to the problems with the Daikin 9kW. Octopus have agreed to do a resurvey, so we will see if they red...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Are Octopuses Slowing Consumer Adoption of Heat Pumps?

That's one of my main objections to Octopus wanting to fit the Daikin 9kW, based on a heat loss figure of 8.8kW, which I'm convinced should be no more...

2 years ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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