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RE: How much radiator capacity do I need for an air source heat pump?

Ah, that makes sense and the 7kW Vaillant plus backup is a strategy a neighbour of mine has, so far successfully, adopted. Note that at -2 the 7kW Va...

10 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: How much radiator capacity do I need for an air source heat pump?

It wasn't supposed to be a criticism, just additional info. If you are building a spreadsheet, which many do, a formula is more useful than a table! ...

10 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: How much radiator capacity do I need for an air source heat pump?

Many manufacturers give an equation in the following form: output is proportional to (deltaT)^n where deltaT is the mean difference between the ...

10 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: How much radiator capacity do I need for an air source heat pump?

First question, what's the heat loss of your house? If by any chance you have a smart meter and can get half hourly or daily gas consumption you can...

10 months ago
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Thermostats, Volumisers, Buffer Tanks, TRVs, Pumps, Piping, Valves, Radiators & Controls
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RE: Thinking of ripping our my IVT Greenline HT Plus C model and replacing with a gas boiler.

Further to the above I found the manual here Page 37 describes the alarm and possible reasons, of which a blocked filter is one. Page 2...

10 months ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Thinking of ripping our my IVT Greenline HT Plus C model and replacing with a gas boiler.

Do you know what the alarm means. From what you 'have been told' it sounds like a 'low flow' alarm. If it wasnt there initially then something ...

10 months ago
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Ground Source Heat Pump (GSHPs)
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

As a former local government employee (following a career in engineering) I realised that explaining the consequences to politicians simply and in ter...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: ASHP and how it should run and potential kw consumption?

I am planning on trialling night time 'set forward' to take advantage of cheap rate tarrif. I have no idea if it will work in practice. The challeng...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Is My Midea Heat Pump Inherently Defective?

Thanks for that, I think there is much comfort to be drawn because of: ... with which, based on everything you have told me, I agree. My heat ...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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Defrost behaviours
10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: ASHP and how it should run and potential kw consumption?

I think that conditions over the last couple of days are about the worst possible - cold but very wet = lots of defrost. I too am interested in what ...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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RE: Analysing MELcloud heat pump graphs

I'm not an ecodan expert but this looks like defrost to me. The give away is that FT goes below RT.. Conditions for defrost are about as bad as they...

10 months ago
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Air Source Heat Pumps (ASHPs)
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