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@glacken With 3 years on this forum, I am immediately suspicious whenever I read a surveyed heat loss greater than about 9kW, unless its for a mansi...
There is essentially no doubt that operating heat pumps on well adjusted weather compensation, is, in the vast majority of cases, the way to go. In s...
For a couple of years b&q sold one, but then stopped I presume because no demand. They are quite popular for narrowboats see eg/p>
That's a big or rather lossy house. How certain are you that this is correct. Do you have any existing consumption figures to act as a sanity check,...
If you are prepared to take out a buffer/LLH (or replumb it as a volumiser) and disable third party controls (which is generally possible with appropr...
Experimentally I dont think thats the case - I, and many others here, have radiators, use WC with no room influence, and find it much more comfortable...
Thats sadly very unusual in the UK so far as I can tell; you were very lucky. Most boilers (again so far as I can tell) are slapped in, flow temp t...
Just to comment on this, if you get the adjustment right, your house should be more comfortable, possibly much more comfortable, with a heat pump than...
That sounds like an 'opportunity' for a breed of 'no win, no fee' optimisers who partner with lawyers to sue the installers of faulty systems.
I think that's the problem though. Heat pump reacts but house won't because of its large heat capacity. By the time the heat pump measures a change ...
Have you got a minimum flow temp set by any chance? Apart from this I can't comment as I don't know much about the ecodan autoadapt algorit...
Given your background, you will have come across control theory (you probably know more than I do!). The fundamental problem with room compensation i...
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