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Sorry Im not. I should also be upfront in saying that Im not a heat pump professional and so restrict my activities to giving well meaning advice to ...
Thanks. I know and can see that the tie from earth to neutral is at the local substation transformer. However its not this that matters for safe...
OK the thing to understand about setting thermostats and TRVs (much) higher is that you are actually trying to disable them altogether. You then need...
@fiona @johnbroome I'm sorry to hear this. Can I just ask if you have done the key things which are necessary to get a heat pump working both che...
For me this sums up what I have learned in my 3 year journey so far. Of course 'caveat emptor' is universally true - if there is an opportunity to sc...
In a word yes. Measurements based on a single day should be treated with extreme caution, houses take a long time to react. However as a ...
Newbuild 200sq m house, 16kW? Somebody is having a laugh at your considerable expense. Either the construction standard is appalling or the loss is ...
I would describe this as either a fault or a configuration error. If the ft isn't changing with oat then wc isn't working, your heat pump won't be ef...
@johnbroome As I say I think you probably have a fault which needs fixing. However there may also be an opportunity to tweak how it's run. The un...
Interesting. Judging by my house which is different is several ways (some better, some worse) I would have guessed ~7kW as the actual loss, however y...
OK, I see from your other post that this is quite an old installation and things have recently changed which suggests a fault. I believe @editor is l...
So far as i can see no because its NOT connected to the neutral, its connected to the metallic sheath of the distributor’s service cable into the prem...
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