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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

No but the house is a storage mechanism which a heat pump can access. All other things being equal using existing storage mechanisms is better than c...

9 months ago
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Government Schemes, Regulations, Planning & Organisations
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

I completely agree we are paying for underinvestment in infrastructure (arguably due to the effects of privatisation) although electrification drives ...

9 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

I guess, but it is only a guess, that the excess demand problem is as much, if not more, in the grid equivalent of the 'last mile' as it is in generat...

9 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

I agree with the inference from this comment, namely that weather compensation has been mandated elsewhere for many decades. We didn't which, IMHO, w...

9 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

They definitely can be run on pure WC, and arguably its the best method (albeit probably using a temperature sensor as a limiter). However they have ...

9 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

Which are... Is there even a heat pump available that either doesnt have an internal IAT sensor or cant take an external thermostat input as a limit s...

9 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

@jancold I tend to agree with your analysis The summary says this: Class I – A room thermostat that controls the on/off operation of a heat...

9 months ago
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RE: The UK’s Heating Nightmare: Why Many Systems Fail Homeowners

I agree that the UK heating industry is well behind the curve, which accounts in part for the poor heat pump installations that plague this site. The...

9 months ago
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RE: Heat Pump SCOPs – The Truth Might Not Be What You Think

Pump speed needs to be sufficient to carry away the energy, any less wont do, any more is wasting energy. The energy carried away is flow rate (l/s)...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

That's exactly what my analysis above would predict. After the rise in oat the bit of the house you live in continues, for a while, to lose energy t...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

This is definitely an interesting scenario. What I think happens is this. The house fabric starts (when it's cold) with a thermal gradient continual...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: In the Bleak Midwinter... Midea heat pump performance, poor COP and windchill in action

Phew! I thought I was going mad. In terms of #2 rapidly warming OAT is an interesting phenomenon in terms of understanding the thermal dynamics of a...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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