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RE: Samsung / Worldheat buffer mixing

That's an interesting angle not previously mentioned anywhere I have seen. Is it perhaps a positive reason for a volumiser?

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

R290 scops appear to be broadly similar to R32, there may be a small systematic difference which someone else can doubtless comment on. The only rea...

1 year ago
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RE: Samsung / Worldheat buffer mixing

@heacol That is a nice set of diagrams thanks for posting. Why volumiser on the flow not the return? I thought the usual advice was the latt...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Rads are actually pretty cheap, however, funny you should ask as only a couple of days ago i knocked up a quick spreadsheet to work out the business c...

1 year ago
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RE: Samsung / Worldheat buffer mixing

This seems like a classic case of somebody who didn't know what they were doing installing a buffer with complete mixing, which is almost certainly wh...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Perhaps I should have said that many boilers can do WC but, to the best of my understanding, few systems in the UK are set up to take advantage of the...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Many gas boilers do or can support WC. However the way we do dhw means that you may have to jump hoops to implement it. A friend of mine has employ...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Yup pretty much. My boiler does actually condense so its just possible that the efficiency exceeds 100%. Hence choosing the 7kW Vaillant which does...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

So we can look at the scatter on some more experimental data, here is a plot for my gas fired system. It shows average daily power (ie daily gas cons...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

A bit of a moot point as this is now into hand waving territory, but I had in mind +/-10%. Thinking at the next level of detail, if I had a determin...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

All agreed except possibly the last sentence. I don't think its as simple as a constant lag because the fabric isnt monolithic. However certainly I ...

1 year ago
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RE: ÀSHP heat loss - how close to perfect can we get?

Its a very good question and one I pose above. As I say above it does depend on the actual circumstance and what design decisions may be triggered/de...

1 year ago
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