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I think the first comment is a little unfair. The thermodynamics mean that heat pump output inevitably varies with OAT and FT. The only way to circu...
What do you mean by 'turned off' exactly. Same question to @pipcart. Unless you cut the power completely: Most if not all heat pumps (and so fa...
I agree with your last last sentence, but for another reason. In an ideal world installers wouldn't fit buffers so there would be no second pump to r...
@fiona I admire your optimism in regard to what your MP might achieve. Just to reiterate, if you want to please post some details of your system ...
@ashp-bobba No reason you should feel bad. This case is particularly worrying because, so far as I can tell from your description, it's not heat p...
@ashp-bobba The worrying thing is that the crook is presumably still in the business 'fixing' other people's plumbing. Really this should be repo...
I completely agree, really I do. However I also know that the whole construction industry has a fair number of chancers, and like it or not they m...
There is a 'live' 'mixergy' thread on the forum at present where op is @bontwoody and exactly this happened due to a very obviously faulty cylinder. ...
Not so. In my case it made the difference between 10.5 kW and 7kW. There are a fair number of others who report similar eg op on this thread. In a...
Better than an early Windows/DOS error 'Faulty keyboard or keyboard not present, press F1 to continue'. This persisted for a couple of decades at lea...
It's increasingly clear that there is frequently problem with heat loss estimates and ach is one of the culprits. There are some installers, includin...
Delighted to hear that the buffer has been replumbed as a volumiser and other changes made. Please do post a further update and any questions as it g...
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