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RE: New Samsung 12KW Heat Pump Help

Welcome. Firstly looking at individual days is essentially useless, houses have a 'memory' so you can really only make meaningful 'measurements' seve...

12 months ago
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RE: Thermostat setting...still learning

Yes, the minimum cost will (almost certainly) come if you get the WC adjusted so it just heats the house to temperature so the lower you can get it wh...

12 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

just cale (cally) I would think. I dont dislike it! I just checked German, French and Spanish, all are a direct translation of heat pump - or o...

12 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

According to Google 'The word refrigerator comes from the latin refrigare, derived from frigus (meaning cold)'

12 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

Last time I looked the air in my bicycle pump wasn't visible either! Perhaps we should call it a reverse refrigerator, a rotaregifer (pronounced rot...

12 months ago
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RE: Flow temperature- At what point?

You have to experiment, reducing it a degree at a time until it fails to heat the house up sufficiently. TRVs (if you have them) all fully open and a...

12 months ago
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RE: Thermostat setting...still learning

Using the Hive may be a bad idea. Fundamentally the primary control of heat pumps should be the heat pump's own controller, and in particular weath...

12 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

Fair enough, but the idea of a pump and the idea of energy/heat are both familiar to laymen, so I can't see we need to do anything (by way of explanat...

12 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

Maybe not. The point about pumps of all kinds is that they act against the natural flow of what they pump, and that is exactly what a heat pump does....

12 months ago
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RE: Should We Rethink the Name “Heat Pump” for Homeowners?

...which is why boilers eventually need to be banned. I don't doubt that similarly minded people will/have complained about recent floods. They need...

12 months ago
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RE: Thermostat setting...still learning

Welcome to the forum, Im sure you will find people here, who are happy to help. Its also good that you like your ASHP!. As far as the forum is conce...

12 months ago
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RE: Balancing a low loss header/buffer tank on a Grant Aerona 2 13kw r32 system

Not sure exactly what the picture shows as there appear to be 8 readings. If its the bottom temp readings that are of interest, the they seem to be 2...

12 months ago
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