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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5kW Monobloc (FTC5) Defrost Mode

Have you got any plots from melcloud showing how it works during recovery from defrost. I have heard an argument that, if you have lots of fancoils,...

8 months ago
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RE: Mitsubishi Ecodan 8.5kW Monobloc (FTC5) Defrost Mode

I would be careful with that presumption. Minimum volume is at least in significant part about defrost, and what matters is the minimum volume availa...

8 months ago
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RE: Three pipe buffer

It sounds rushed to me but also that it may not be possible to question the direction. I hope you are lucky! Since he has been doing it this way fo...

8 months ago
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RE: Three pipe buffer

Caleffi speak in one of their tutorials about the benefits of a 3 pipe buffer. Someone else may have taken the trouble to understand it. As always ...

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

Sorry but fundamentally you have to. The rate at which energy is absorbed by the emitters is determined by the flow temperature and the pipe area ...

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

OK. I think your theory, if it applies at all, applies to a small minority of use cases. The vast majority of our housing stock doesn't have UFH an...

8 months ago
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RE: Running my new Nibe ASHP efficiently

Yes, its the 'integral' term in a proportional - integral - differential' controller. Vaillant actually call it the 'energy integral', the units are ...

8 months ago
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RE: Running my new Nibe ASHP efficiently

Vaillant have the same concept. Basically its the sum (actual FT - target FT) * Time. So if the actual FT is 30 and the target 35 and this remains t...

8 months ago
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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...

8 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,...

8 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)...

8 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...

8 months ago
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