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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

Understood. You suggest (I think) that your data shows that oversizing is positively beneficial to performance in your case. Have I understood tha...

7 months ago
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

Maybe best not to sound too clever, it might upset him. You might be better first to ask why he thinks you might need 2 pumps and then, if necessary,...

7 months ago
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RE: Controversial opinions - pure weather compensation, buffer tank, heat loss, oversized heat pumps

Although i agree that the evidence that oversizing causes performance problems is at best shaky (albeit there are some logical arguments why it might)...

7 months ago
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

Well that's not really a reason. If he had said "because the index circuit has a resistance that is too high for the water pump" that would be a rea...

7 months ago
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RE: How do the settings on my Gen 5 Samsung ASHP sound?

A buffer tank will be a cylindrical tank other than your DHW tank, or could be attached to your DHW tank.

7 months ago
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RE: Avoid the Heat Pump Villain: Why Low-Loss Headers and Buffers Can Sabotage Your Heat Pump's Efficiency

It's unlikely you need 2 pumps, did he say why?

7 months ago
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RE: How do the settings on my Gen 5 Samsung ASHP sound?

In that case Id perhaps expect your loss to be less. Do you have a buffer tank and if so how many ports (usually 2 or 4). How are the upstairs radia...

7 months ago
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RE: How do the settings on my Gen 5 Samsung ASHP sound?

Difficult to say without more information about the house however, for comparison, my 200sq m 1930s house with a mish mash of fabric upgrades (includi...

7 months ago
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RE: Vaillant Arotherm ASHP gets noisier when it gets colder outside

Quite possibly. As I mentioned above the 'ideal' product seems only to be available in the EU. There is a UK product which looks like grass, (and th...

7 months ago
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RE: Best temperature wave form for best economy and efficiency .

In general lower FT = higher efficiency. These are only 1C apart however and with different outdoor temps, but perhaps more importantly both have ...

7 months ago
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RE: ASHP and how it should run and potential kw consumption?

Consumption is not that much different to mine when it was very cold. You wont be getting a COP of 4 when its -3~-5 outside, more like 3 or possibly ...

7 months ago
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RE: Is it crucial to get flow temperatures with heat pumps right?

The bodies of TRVs usually have an arrow on them. If it can operate bidirectionally it will be a bidirectional arrow!

7 months ago
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